Login
Forgot Password?

OR

Login with Google Login with Twitter Login with Facebook
  • Join
  • Profiles
  • Groups
  • SuicideGirls
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Shop
Vital Stats

rubbersoul

El Lay

Member Since 2003

Followers 151 Following 85

  • Everything
  • Photos
  • Video
  • Blogs
  • Groups
  • From Others

Monday Oct 02, 2006

Oct 2, 2006
0
  • Facebook
  • Tweet
  • Email
SAM STONE

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

- John Prine (1971)
VIEW 18 of 18 COMMENTS
jogu:
you were good in that film georgia biggrin wink
Oct 8, 2006
johnclement:
Laura Cantrell did a good cover of that for the Future Soundtrack for America.
Oct 8, 2006

More Blogs

  • 11.04.08
    12

    Tuesday Nov 04, 2008

    Read More
  • 08.01.08
    17

    Friday Aug 01, 2008

    I decided to write something. Why, you ask? Well, why not? I used …
  • 03.09.08
    66

    Sunday Mar 09, 2008

    So fucking awesome!
  • 03.03.08
    7

    Monday Mar 03, 2008

    THE GOLDEN STATE You are the hole in my head I am the pain in you…
  • 03.03.08
    2

    Monday Mar 03, 2008

    Shit, I need a do-over on the post from yesterday. Clearly my though…
  • 03.08.07
    275

    Thursday Mar 08, 2007

    SOULJACKER (Part 1)
  • 03.05.07
    18

    Monday Mar 05, 2007

    SEPTEMBER SONG When I was a young man courting the girls I played…
  • 02.08.07
    23

    Thursday Feb 08, 2007

    IN MY LIFE There are places I'll remember All my life though some…
  • 01.12.07
    4

    Friday Jan 12, 2007

    THE PROMISE Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Te…
  • 01.04.07
    13

    Thursday Jan 04, 2007

    HELLO IT'S ME Hello, it's me I've thought about us for a long, lo…

We at SuicideGirls have been celebrating alternative pin-up girls for:

23
years
9
months
7
days
  • 5,509,826 fans
  • 41,393 fans
  • 10,327,617 followers
  • 4,593 SuicideGirls
  • 1,120,690 followers
  • 14,920,095 photos
  • 321,315 followers
  • 61,391,142 comments
  • Join
  • Profiles
  • Groups
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Shop
  • Help
  • About
  • Press
  • LIVE

Legal/Tos | DMCA | Privacy Policy | 18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement | Contact Us | Vendo Payment Support
©SuicideGirls 2001-2025

Press enter to search
Fast Hi-res

Click here to join & see it all...

Crop your photo