With Brad Paisley I’ve decided to use Mouthshut as a platform for one of my other passions; music! Though I grew up on a steady diet of country music, I’m just as passionate about classical opera and trip hop! My first music review will feature a rather unusually bleak and heart wrenching hit called Whiskey Lullaby.
Brad Paisley who is known for his humor in his songs, took a sombre turn with Whiskey Lullaby which stunned fans. It is perhaps the lonelinest song I’ve ever heard. It exudes limitless sorrow, but you can’t ignore it. It is a song that surprisingly features in my list of favorites. Penned by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall, it is the stark and powerful tale a woman who breaks a man’s heart, watches him drink to death, and finally does the same because of her guilt and grief.
Though the song was not meant to be a duet, Brad Paisley realized the song would have a better impact with a woman’s voice as well. So he picked his favorite Alison Krauss, who he labels as his’gift’.
Now for the song that is sure to tug your heart:
Whiskey Lullaby
She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin’ to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
Chorus:
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I’ll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willows
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
(Sing lullaby)
The rumors flew but nobody knew
How much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide
The whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away
A little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough
To get him off her mind
Until the night
Chorus:
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willows
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
Please listen to it once, and you’ll know why it is such a beautiful song!