1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,741 [TYPEWRITER CLACKING] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:07,310 --> 00:00:11,314 ♪♪♪ 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:26,286 --> 00:00:28,853 [CELLO PLAYING] 6 00:00:54,271 --> 00:00:56,229 [TYPEWRITER CLACKING] 7 00:01:22,256 --> 00:01:25,085 TOM: Not too long ago, I received a letter. 8 00:01:27,129 --> 00:01:30,263 It was a letter from a desperate young songwriter 9 00:01:30,307 --> 00:01:31,917 asking for advice. 10 00:01:32,787 --> 00:01:34,442 I could tell that the rejection, 11 00:01:34,484 --> 00:01:36,486 the waiting for nothing to happen 12 00:01:36,531 --> 00:01:39,316 was killing his heart, mind, soul and spirit. 13 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:44,539 So, I did what any good writer does. I wrote him back. 14 00:01:44,581 --> 00:01:48,412 "Dear friend, you asked me why the hell am I here. 15 00:01:48,456 --> 00:01:51,284 "Well, truly heaven only knows. 16 00:01:51,328 --> 00:01:53,634 "We all got here the same way, I suppose. 17 00:01:53,677 --> 00:01:55,245 "We followed the song. 18 00:01:55,289 --> 00:01:59,293 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 19 00:01:59,335 --> 00:02:02,078 The first sentence in the Bible talks about creativity. 20 00:02:02,121 --> 00:02:07,301 Create. A verb which means to bring something into existence. 21 00:02:07,343 --> 00:02:10,694 People have often asked me about the creative process. 22 00:02:10,739 --> 00:02:12,522 How do you write a song? 23 00:02:12,567 --> 00:02:14,699 A friend of mine sent me his definition. 24 00:02:14,742 --> 00:02:17,266 It's so good I think I'll just share it with you. 25 00:02:17,311 --> 00:02:18,659 How do you write a song? 26 00:02:18,703 --> 00:02:20,531 It happens in the shower. 27 00:02:20,574 --> 00:02:24,013 You're soaping up your armpits and suddenly you realize 28 00:02:24,056 --> 00:02:27,189 that you're humming a tune that hasn't been written yet. 29 00:02:27,234 --> 00:02:30,759 And when that happens, something cracks inside your skull 30 00:02:30,801 --> 00:02:34,805 that causes your brain to flood with one of those chemicals 31 00:02:34,849 --> 00:02:38,200 that causes a man to wanna drive off the edge of a cliff 32 00:02:38,245 --> 00:02:41,377 if he thinks that he can brush the cheek of God 33 00:02:41,421 --> 00:02:42,901 for half a second. 34 00:02:42,944 --> 00:02:45,252 And the next thing you do, I mean the very next thing, 35 00:02:45,295 --> 00:02:47,602 is not rinse off or dry off. 36 00:02:47,645 --> 00:02:50,343 You have to get your soapy ass to a piano, 37 00:02:50,387 --> 00:02:52,084 a guitar, a xylophone. 38 00:02:52,127 --> 00:02:54,304 Hell, even a set of water glasses 39 00:02:54,348 --> 00:02:55,826 tuned to a scale will do, 40 00:02:55,871 --> 00:02:57,960 because here's the thing. 41 00:02:58,002 --> 00:03:00,354 That little ditty that you're humming in your head 42 00:03:00,396 --> 00:03:02,834 has a set of tiny leather wings 43 00:03:02,877 --> 00:03:06,316 and it starts to flap the minute that you know it's there. 44 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,840 It's scared of you. It doesn't wanna be caught. 45 00:03:08,884 --> 00:03:12,453 So you have to hold it down by those tiny little wings 46 00:03:12,496 --> 00:03:13,758 while it thrashes. 47 00:03:13,801 --> 00:03:16,239 And then you look up and you realize 48 00:03:16,283 --> 00:03:17,718 that you've missed an appointment, 49 00:03:17,762 --> 00:03:21,112 or worse yet, you've been ignoring your woman. 50 00:03:21,157 --> 00:03:24,073 And there she stands with her bags packed 51 00:03:24,115 --> 00:03:26,554 and she says that she's been saying goodbye 52 00:03:26,597 --> 00:03:28,990 for eight years, but you were too damned busy 53 00:03:29,033 --> 00:03:31,688 with that flapping thing in your fist to notice, 54 00:03:31,733 --> 00:03:34,257 and so she leaves. It's on paper now. 55 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:38,783 It's shredded and thrown up into the air like confetti, 56 00:03:38,826 --> 00:03:41,872 and that's all you have to show for the struggle. 57 00:03:42,918 --> 00:03:44,788 So you get in the shower the next morning 58 00:03:44,832 --> 00:03:47,704 and gone are her soaps and shampoos 59 00:03:47,748 --> 00:03:49,793 and lady razors and that poofy thing 60 00:03:49,837 --> 00:03:51,969 that she uses to exfoliate, 61 00:03:52,014 --> 00:03:54,276 soaping up your lonely life, 62 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,539 weeping for the broken space there. 63 00:03:56,584 --> 00:04:00,413 And suddenly you realize you're humming a tune. 64 00:04:00,456 --> 00:04:02,676 There's something in that whole damned drama 65 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:04,504 that makes a man need to be heard. 66 00:04:04,548 --> 00:04:08,421 The struggle can't be all for nothing. 67 00:04:17,605 --> 00:04:21,826 ♪ I hope it always hurts and makes you cry 68 00:04:22,826 --> 00:04:26,831 ♪ Draw the beauty from your pain 69 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:32,488 ♪ Life is just too beautiful to put it in a frame 70 00:04:32,533 --> 00:04:35,579 ♪ Maybe that's the reason why 71 00:04:36,536 --> 00:04:39,582 ♪ Van Gogh went insane 72 00:04:39,627 --> 00:04:43,370 ♪ You pour your heart out on a page 73 00:04:43,413 --> 00:04:47,764 ♪ You bear your soul upon a stage 74 00:04:48,939 --> 00:04:52,379 ♪ You got the power to make us feel 75 00:04:52,422 --> 00:04:55,685 ♪ You got the power to help us heal 76 00:04:55,730 --> 00:05:00,081 ♪ And I hope it always hurts and makes you cry 77 00:05:00,125 --> 00:05:03,737 ♪ Draw the beauty from your pain 78 00:05:03,781 --> 00:05:09,091 ♪ Life is just too beautiful to put it in a frame 79 00:05:09,134 --> 00:05:12,615 ♪ Maybe that's the reason why 80 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:16,533 ♪ Van Gogh and Marilyn and Elvis 81 00:05:16,576 --> 00:05:18,230 ♪ Went 82 00:05:18,274 --> 00:05:21,016 ♪ Insane 83 00:05:22,495 --> 00:05:23,932 See, you wanna write a song, 84 00:05:23,975 --> 00:05:26,064 create something that wasn't there before, 85 00:05:26,108 --> 00:05:29,545 but it's dark and formless and brooding and hovering 86 00:05:29,589 --> 00:05:32,418 and then, let there be light. 87 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:40,514 And you have an idea and it's good, 88 00:05:40,557 --> 00:05:43,343 but you're swimming in the waters of confusion. 89 00:05:43,386 --> 00:05:46,432 And then you spot land and you have a verse 90 00:05:46,475 --> 00:05:49,086 and there's light and there's dark 91 00:05:49,130 --> 00:05:51,262 and there's morning and there's evening 92 00:05:51,307 --> 00:05:53,961 and there's a beat and there's a rhythm. 93 00:05:54,004 --> 00:05:57,487 And you feel the whole thing start to come together 94 00:05:57,531 --> 00:05:59,488 and the birds sing a song 95 00:05:59,533 --> 00:06:01,535 over the expanse of the Earth. 96 00:06:01,577 --> 00:06:03,232 But the chaos remains 97 00:06:03,274 --> 00:06:05,408 and you're trying to make some order 98 00:06:05,451 --> 00:06:07,714 of the jingle jangly chords 99 00:06:07,757 --> 00:06:10,673 and the jumble of ideas and words. 100 00:06:10,718 --> 00:06:12,632 What is it about after all? 101 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:14,504 It's really just a love song. 102 00:06:14,548 --> 00:06:17,420 It's a man and a woman, bone of my bone, 103 00:06:17,463 --> 00:06:18,899 flesh of my flesh, 104 00:06:18,942 --> 00:06:20,553 naked and unashamed. 105 00:06:20,596 --> 00:06:24,600 And magically and mysteriously, 106 00:06:24,644 --> 00:06:26,689 you have three-and-a-half minutes 107 00:06:26,733 --> 00:06:29,475 of mind altering, spine tingling, 108 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:32,086 goose-bumping, iTunes downloading, 109 00:06:32,129 --> 00:06:36,744 Pandora and Spotify underpaying music. 110 00:06:36,786 --> 00:06:39,528 And on the seventh day, we can rest. 111 00:06:42,401 --> 00:06:45,665 Every song is a love song in some form or fashion. 112 00:06:45,709 --> 00:06:49,233 Good love, bad love, happy love, sad love, 113 00:06:49,278 --> 00:06:51,802 rollercoaster, hands in the air love 114 00:06:51,846 --> 00:06:53,500 or throw yourself off 115 00:06:53,543 --> 00:06:55,588 the Tallahatchie Bridge love. 116 00:06:56,590 --> 00:06:58,548 I learned what love is 117 00:06:58,591 --> 00:07:02,596 and isn't at home, and I bet you did, too. 118 00:07:03,031 --> 00:07:05,598 [ENGINE STOPS] 119 00:07:05,641 --> 00:07:07,644 They say you write about what you know, 120 00:07:07,687 --> 00:07:10,254 so write about your home. 121 00:07:10,298 --> 00:07:12,867 I'm gonna tell you about my parents, 122 00:07:12,910 --> 00:07:15,608 Marjorie and Tom Douglas. 123 00:07:16,783 --> 00:07:18,742 My father was a steel salesman 124 00:07:18,786 --> 00:07:20,744 with U.S. Steel Corporation, 125 00:07:20,788 --> 00:07:23,747 and part of his territory was Shreveport, Louisiana. 126 00:07:23,790 --> 00:07:27,882 A friend introduced him to a beautiful brunette bank teller. 127 00:07:27,925 --> 00:07:30,057 Can I get a cup of coffee, please? 128 00:07:31,233 --> 00:07:33,148 She wore the fragrance of roses 129 00:07:33,191 --> 00:07:36,629 and floated across a dance floor on a Glenn Miller tune. 130 00:07:36,673 --> 00:07:39,545 Stephen Sondheim, the great Broadway composer, 131 00:07:39,588 --> 00:07:41,112 says God is in the details. 132 00:07:41,156 --> 00:07:43,331 So load up your lyrics with sight, sound, 133 00:07:43,375 --> 00:07:45,682 smells, taste, touches and motion, 134 00:07:45,725 --> 00:07:49,555 and your audience will engage the songs all the more. 135 00:07:50,992 --> 00:07:55,518 My parents married after a brief courtship in 1945. 136 00:07:55,562 --> 00:07:59,043 And they say songs and stories are kinda like onions. 137 00:07:59,086 --> 00:08:02,002 You have to peel them down till they make you cry. 138 00:08:03,177 --> 00:08:05,528 You see, it was my mother's second marriage. 139 00:08:05,572 --> 00:08:08,139 Her first husband, a young Navy pilot, 140 00:08:08,182 --> 00:08:11,273 was killed in the opening days of World War II, 141 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:15,363 and the war department sent a telegram to her at work 142 00:08:15,406 --> 00:08:17,497 and she fainted. 143 00:08:19,934 --> 00:08:23,024 They say that we should all cry about once a week, 144 00:08:23,067 --> 00:08:25,809 so don't shy away from your emotions 145 00:08:25,853 --> 00:08:28,420 because the tears brought on this one. 146 00:08:40,345 --> 00:08:42,303 ♪ I pulled in at the shopping center 147 00:08:42,346 --> 00:08:44,219 ♪ And saw a little boy wrapped around 148 00:08:44,261 --> 00:08:46,437 ♪ The legs of his mother 149 00:08:49,485 --> 00:08:51,618 ♪ Like ice cream melting they embraced 150 00:08:51,661 --> 00:08:55,534 ♪ Years of bad decisions running down her face 151 00:08:58,101 --> 00:08:59,668 ♪ All morning I've been thinking 152 00:08:59,712 --> 00:09:01,889 ♪ My life's so hard 153 00:09:01,932 --> 00:09:03,106 ♪ And they wore 154 00:09:03,150 --> 00:09:07,328 ♪ Everything they own living in a car 155 00:09:07,371 --> 00:09:10,375 ♪ I wanted to tell him it would be okay 156 00:09:10,418 --> 00:09:13,682 ♪ But I got just got back in my Suburban 157 00:09:13,726 --> 00:09:15,250 ♪ And I drove away 158 00:09:17,687 --> 00:09:19,863 ♪ I don't know why they say 159 00:09:19,907 --> 00:09:21,995 ♪ Grown men don't cry 160 00:09:26,522 --> 00:09:31,004 ♪ I don't know why they say grown men don't cry 161 00:09:34,355 --> 00:09:36,750 ♪ I am sitting here with my kids and my wife 162 00:09:36,793 --> 00:09:40,797 ♪ And everything that I hold dear in my life 163 00:09:43,104 --> 00:09:45,192 ♪ We say grace and thank the Lord 164 00:09:45,235 --> 00:09:47,150 ♪ Got so much to be thankful for 165 00:09:47,195 --> 00:09:49,240 ♪ Then it is up the stairs and off to bed 166 00:09:49,283 --> 00:09:53,244 ♪ And my little boy says I haven't had my story yet 167 00:09:56,290 --> 00:09:58,684 ♪ And everything weighing on my mind 168 00:09:58,727 --> 00:10:00,774 ♪ Disappears just like that 169 00:10:00,817 --> 00:10:03,384 ♪ When he lifts his head off the pillow and says 170 00:10:04,778 --> 00:10:07,823 ♪ I love you Dad 171 00:10:14,788 --> 00:10:17,006 Well, the story continues. 172 00:10:17,051 --> 00:10:19,749 It's 10 years later, 1963. 173 00:10:19,793 --> 00:10:21,576 I'm 10 years old. 174 00:10:23,534 --> 00:10:25,711 My family and I go roller skating 175 00:10:25,754 --> 00:10:28,715 early one Saturday morning 176 00:10:28,758 --> 00:10:31,413 and my father falls and breaks his arm. 177 00:10:33,763 --> 00:10:35,851 My mother takes him to the doctor's office 178 00:10:35,895 --> 00:10:40,769 to get a cast and 50 opioids. 179 00:10:43,293 --> 00:10:45,993 And he gamed the system and he needed more 180 00:10:46,036 --> 00:10:48,342 and more and more, and he was an addict 181 00:10:48,385 --> 00:10:50,345 right then and right there. 182 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:56,437 And he had to go to a sanatorium, 183 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,831 which is really like a rehab. 184 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,095 My mother covered for him with his bosses 185 00:11:01,138 --> 00:11:03,357 while he was gone, and took him around 186 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,707 on his sales calls when he got back. 187 00:11:09,451 --> 00:11:13,455 And it took a while and he recovered. 188 00:11:19,678 --> 00:11:20,854 Until he didn't. 189 00:11:22,769 --> 00:11:25,902 I come from a long line of storytellers. 190 00:11:25,946 --> 00:11:27,687 Masterful yarn spinners. 191 00:11:27,730 --> 00:11:31,951 Every holiday, every Sunday, every vacation, 192 00:11:31,995 --> 00:11:33,256 somebody would always say, 193 00:11:33,301 --> 00:11:35,869 "You know, that reminds me of the time..." 194 00:11:35,912 --> 00:11:39,524 And I'm telling you my story not because it's the best one, 195 00:11:39,567 --> 00:11:41,788 it's just the one that I know the best. 196 00:11:43,267 --> 00:11:46,966 I wish that I'd recorded my grandmother playing the piano, 197 00:11:47,009 --> 00:11:50,274 my mother's laugh, my father strumming the ukulele, 198 00:11:50,317 --> 00:11:52,972 my father-in-law reading the Book of John. 199 00:11:54,365 --> 00:11:57,673 What I wouldn't give to have those memories. 200 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:00,197 Tempus fugit,my friend. 201 00:12:00,807 --> 00:12:02,851 [ENGINE STARTS] 202 00:12:10,686 --> 00:12:13,254 February 9th, 1964. 203 00:12:13,297 --> 00:12:15,385 It was a Sunday night. It was cold, 204 00:12:15,429 --> 00:12:20,043 it was my mother's vegetable soup and cornbread on TV trays. 205 00:12:20,086 --> 00:12:23,524 My mom and sister sat on the couch, 206 00:12:23,567 --> 00:12:25,527 my dad sat in the big easy chair. 207 00:12:25,570 --> 00:12:28,878 I sat on the hearth with my back to a roaring fire 208 00:12:28,922 --> 00:12:32,751 and Ed Sullivan said to 73 million Americans 209 00:12:32,794 --> 00:12:34,317 and the four Douglas's, 210 00:12:34,361 --> 00:12:37,147 "Ladies and gentleman, welcome The Beatles." 211 00:12:37,191 --> 00:12:38,888 My father loved The Beatles. 212 00:12:38,932 --> 00:12:40,846 All the other fathers thought The Beatles were 213 00:12:40,889 --> 00:12:42,196 the devil's right hand, 214 00:12:42,239 --> 00:12:45,894 but not Thomas Labert Douglas Junior. 215 00:12:45,938 --> 00:12:47,984 He loved their songs, their harmonies, 216 00:12:48,028 --> 00:12:50,421 their Nehru jackets, their haircuts. 217 00:12:50,465 --> 00:12:54,120 That's the first time I really remember the power of a song. 218 00:12:54,163 --> 00:12:57,080 I was 11, my father was 53. 219 00:12:57,124 --> 00:12:58,341 What did I know? 220 00:12:58,385 --> 00:13:02,519 What I did know was that a boy loves what his father loves. 221 00:13:02,563 --> 00:13:05,523 And that's the day I became a songwriter. 222 00:13:09,962 --> 00:13:11,051 And then we went to Metro Music 223 00:13:11,094 --> 00:13:15,054 and bought a red, six-string Hagstrom guitar. 224 00:13:15,097 --> 00:13:17,057 Took it home and I was practicing. 225 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:19,407 The next day he burst in my bedroom and he said, 226 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:22,802 "Man, we gotta take that guitar back. 227 00:13:22,845 --> 00:13:24,846 "You gotta be a bass player like Paul McCartney. 228 00:13:24,890 --> 00:13:27,980 "It's gonna be so much easier for you to be in a band 229 00:13:28,024 --> 00:13:31,027 "as a bass player than a guitar player." 230 00:13:31,071 --> 00:13:35,552 Big Tom, always my biggest fan and the easiest to impress. 231 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:39,905 Then he dropped me off at Morris Brandon Elementary 232 00:13:39,948 --> 00:13:43,169 and I boarded a yellow school bus with some friends 233 00:13:43,212 --> 00:13:44,866 and classmates and some teachers, 234 00:13:44,911 --> 00:13:48,043 and we went to Atlanta Stadium to hear, you guessed it, 235 00:13:48,087 --> 00:13:50,264 John, Paul, George, and Ringo. 236 00:13:50,307 --> 00:13:54,921 And I can still hear the girls screaming in my ears. 237 00:13:56,443 --> 00:13:58,097 Dropping me off to go see The Beatles 238 00:13:58,140 --> 00:13:59,881 would be a little bit like taking your 239 00:13:59,926 --> 00:14:01,361 11-year-old to Bonnaroo saying, 240 00:14:01,404 --> 00:14:02,405 "Have a good time, sweetie. 241 00:14:02,450 --> 00:14:04,931 I'll come back and pick you up." 242 00:14:04,974 --> 00:14:06,758 It was pretty radical, but then again, 243 00:14:06,802 --> 00:14:08,934 Big Tom was pretty radical. 244 00:14:08,977 --> 00:14:11,371 He had the radio on in the morning when he shaved, 245 00:14:11,414 --> 00:14:14,941 the radio on in the afternoon when he swam laps at the Y. 246 00:14:14,984 --> 00:14:16,942 They had a big Victrola in their bedroom. 247 00:14:16,985 --> 00:14:20,033 He kept that black vinyl spinning. 248 00:14:20,076 --> 00:14:24,080 Little did he know that I would end up in this crazy business, 249 00:14:24,124 --> 00:14:26,125 living in a heartbreak town. 250 00:14:27,605 --> 00:14:29,129 Hey, I just want you to know 251 00:14:29,172 --> 00:14:30,870 what you're getting yourself into. 252 00:14:32,393 --> 00:14:34,134 The writer has to learn to live 253 00:14:34,177 --> 00:14:37,963 in a space of unresolvable conflict. 254 00:14:38,006 --> 00:14:41,053 First you have to face the dark overlord of apathy. 255 00:14:41,096 --> 00:14:45,100 And she sits in the corner of your writing space 256 00:14:45,144 --> 00:14:49,149 and she smokes cool cigarettes and sips espresso 257 00:14:49,192 --> 00:14:51,150 and she growls, "No, no, no," 258 00:14:51,193 --> 00:14:54,980 with every strike of your Blackwing Palomino pencil. 259 00:14:55,024 --> 00:14:57,984 And then you have to face the face in the mirror, 260 00:14:58,027 --> 00:14:59,245 the one that looks at you and says, 261 00:14:59,288 --> 00:15:02,336 "You're a fraud. This didn't work out well yesterday, 262 00:15:02,379 --> 00:15:03,946 "it won't work out well today 263 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:06,253 "and it won't work out well tomorrow." 264 00:15:06,296 --> 00:15:10,169 That voice is a rat that sits on the edge of your piano 265 00:15:10,212 --> 00:15:12,389 with a long tail and gnarly teeth 266 00:15:12,432 --> 00:15:14,260 and it utters profanities at you. 267 00:15:14,303 --> 00:15:17,090 You have to walk over, pick it up by the tail, 268 00:15:17,133 --> 00:15:20,701 put it in a mason jar, screw down a brass lid, 269 00:15:20,745 --> 00:15:23,009 walk it out to the driveway, 270 00:15:23,052 --> 00:15:24,488 -load up a 12 gauge -[GUN COCKING] 271 00:15:24,532 --> 00:15:26,663 -and blow it into smithereens. -[GUN FIRES] 272 00:15:26,707 --> 00:15:31,147 And that's just to get the song started. 273 00:15:43,115 --> 00:15:45,726 In the spring of 2009, 274 00:15:45,769 --> 00:15:48,033 the rat started talking to me. 275 00:15:48,076 --> 00:15:50,210 "The next big thing is coming to your studio 276 00:15:50,253 --> 00:15:53,168 "in a couple of weeks, big boy. What you got for us?" 277 00:15:53,212 --> 00:15:56,085 I didn't answer. I walked over, 278 00:15:56,129 --> 00:15:59,219 carefully picked him up by the tail, 279 00:15:59,261 --> 00:16:02,874 avoid biting as he screamed profanities at me, 280 00:16:02,918 --> 00:16:04,919 put him in the mason jar, 281 00:16:04,964 --> 00:16:07,009 screwed down the brass lid, kaboom. 282 00:16:07,052 --> 00:16:11,971 If a cat has nine lives, a rat has 99 times 99 lives. 283 00:16:12,014 --> 00:16:13,537 You never kill the rat, you just have to 284 00:16:13,581 --> 00:16:16,539 deal with him over and over and over again. 285 00:16:16,583 --> 00:16:18,150 We have to stay focused. 286 00:16:18,193 --> 00:16:20,587 We have to block out the distractions. 287 00:16:20,630 --> 00:16:22,416 Don't worry about getting it right, 288 00:16:22,458 --> 00:16:23,982 we just have to get it written. 289 00:16:24,025 --> 00:16:27,202 And we can rewrite and rewrite and rewrite. 290 00:16:27,246 --> 00:16:31,773 In the spring of 2009, the rat got in my head. 291 00:16:31,816 --> 00:16:33,644 I failed to follow my own process. 292 00:16:33,687 --> 00:16:35,254 I started thinking about trying to write a hit 293 00:16:35,298 --> 00:16:37,431 instead of finding a point of inspiration. 294 00:16:37,474 --> 00:16:40,086 That's the kiss of death. 295 00:16:44,437 --> 00:16:46,004 [ENGINE STARTS] 296 00:16:47,222 --> 00:16:50,096 The next big thing was coming on Monday morning 297 00:16:50,139 --> 00:16:53,054 and I couldn't rhyme blue with shoe. 298 00:16:53,099 --> 00:16:55,014 The weekend before, I was gonna run 299 00:16:55,057 --> 00:16:58,929 the Nashville Marathon, 26.2 miserable miles. 300 00:16:58,974 --> 00:17:01,280 I started the race with my two best friends. 301 00:17:01,323 --> 00:17:03,065 They abandoned me at the halfway point. 302 00:17:03,109 --> 00:17:06,807 It's the desolate wasteland, the metroplex. 303 00:17:06,851 --> 00:17:08,940 It's boring and it's heartless, 304 00:17:08,983 --> 00:17:12,248 running through a nondescript office park. 305 00:17:12,291 --> 00:17:14,336 I saw a guy in a yellow chicken suit 306 00:17:14,381 --> 00:17:16,383 and orange flip flops. He sailed by. 307 00:17:16,425 --> 00:17:19,646 And a mature group of women in matching purple tutus, 308 00:17:19,690 --> 00:17:21,387 they raced by. 309 00:17:21,431 --> 00:17:24,478 Then I saw him, or at least the back of him. 310 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,176 His t-shirt read, "I run this town." 311 00:17:28,221 --> 00:17:31,223 I was thinking of metaphors and similes and analogies. 312 00:17:31,267 --> 00:17:35,270 I was delirious. I run this town like a mafia boss. 313 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:37,795 I run this town from point A to point B. 314 00:17:37,838 --> 00:17:39,318 I run this town like a mayor. 315 00:17:39,362 --> 00:17:40,929 I followed him for miles. 316 00:17:40,971 --> 00:17:42,844 I developed a hatred for him. 317 00:17:42,886 --> 00:17:46,500 I really hated myself and I really hated running. 318 00:17:46,542 --> 00:17:47,979 My life was a mockery. 319 00:17:48,022 --> 00:17:50,025 I thought of the rat sitting comfortably 320 00:17:50,068 --> 00:17:53,984 back on the edge of my piano, laughing at me in my misery. 321 00:17:54,855 --> 00:17:57,205 All I know is I run and run 322 00:17:58,250 --> 00:18:00,078 and never seem to get there. 323 00:18:05,823 --> 00:18:09,522 Monday morning 10 a.m., the fresh faced trio 324 00:18:09,566 --> 00:18:11,089 come into my studio. 325 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:13,134 They pull up three chairs. 326 00:18:13,179 --> 00:18:14,832 They say, "What do you got for us?" 327 00:18:14,875 --> 00:18:16,486 They didn't see the rat. 328 00:18:16,529 --> 00:18:18,140 You see, I'm an alleged professional. 329 00:18:18,183 --> 00:18:22,317 I've had weeks to prepare. My publisher has set this up. 330 00:18:23,711 --> 00:18:27,279 I walk over shakily to my keyboard 331 00:18:27,323 --> 00:18:30,326 that I've had since third grade. 332 00:18:30,369 --> 00:18:33,981 I put my hands on the ivories and I say, 333 00:18:34,025 --> 00:18:39,682 "I run from hate, and I run from prejudice 334 00:18:39,727 --> 00:18:42,643 "and pessimist, and I run too late." 335 00:18:42,685 --> 00:18:45,124 I turn around and I imagine that 336 00:18:45,166 --> 00:18:46,951 they're packing up their backpacks, 337 00:18:46,994 --> 00:18:49,171 slowly edging out of the studio. 338 00:18:49,214 --> 00:18:52,740 Instead, they jump up in unison and they say, 339 00:18:52,782 --> 00:18:55,089 "That's genius! You're brilliant!" 340 00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:56,787 And I say, "Oh shucks, 341 00:18:56,830 --> 00:18:58,833 "I've been saving that for you folks 342 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:00,442 "for a couple of months now." 343 00:19:00,487 --> 00:19:04,272 That's the first time I met and wrote with Lady Antebellum. 344 00:19:05,622 --> 00:19:07,884 [PLAYS PIANO] 345 00:19:10,323 --> 00:19:11,498 ♪ I run 346 00:19:13,934 --> 00:19:15,284 ♪ From hate 347 00:19:18,068 --> 00:19:20,288 ♪ And I run from prejudice 348 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:22,813 ♪ And I run from pessimists 349 00:19:22,856 --> 00:19:26,208 ♪ But I run too late 350 00:19:27,513 --> 00:19:29,558 ♪ And I run 351 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:33,476 ♪ My life 352 00:19:34,346 --> 00:19:36,305 ♪ Or is it running me 353 00:19:36,348 --> 00:19:38,307 ♪ I run from my past 354 00:19:38,351 --> 00:19:41,354 ♪ And I run too fast 355 00:19:41,396 --> 00:19:43,311 ♪ Or too slow it seems 356 00:19:48,577 --> 00:19:52,278 ♪ When lies become the truth 357 00:19:56,978 --> 00:20:00,023 ♪ That's when I run to you 358 00:20:05,203 --> 00:20:09,032 ♪ This world keeps spinning faster 359 00:20:09,076 --> 00:20:12,166 ♪ Into a new disaster 360 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:14,386 ♪ So I run to you 361 00:20:16,563 --> 00:20:18,433 ♪ Baby 362 00:20:18,478 --> 00:20:22,307 ♪ When it all starts coming undone 363 00:20:24,134 --> 00:20:28,009 ♪ You're the only one that I run to 364 00:20:29,402 --> 00:20:32,970 ♪ I run to you 365 00:20:42,109 --> 00:20:46,244 I really had an idyllic life until about 1975. 366 00:20:46,288 --> 00:20:49,290 I graduated from college, my sister getting married, 367 00:20:50,552 --> 00:20:52,337 my father retiring from U.S. Steel 368 00:20:52,381 --> 00:20:56,124 with a gold watch and a 45-year pen. 369 00:20:57,167 --> 00:20:58,518 It should've been the best of times. 370 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,303 It was, in fact, the worst of times. 371 00:21:01,346 --> 00:21:04,827 '75 to '82's kind of a watercolor blur. 372 00:21:04,872 --> 00:21:06,307 Let me describe it for you. 373 00:21:06,352 --> 00:21:10,486 It was days and days of my father staying in bed, 374 00:21:10,529 --> 00:21:14,403 hefty black garbage bags filled with every pill imaginable. 375 00:21:14,446 --> 00:21:17,884 It was doctor's offices, psychologists, 376 00:21:17,928 --> 00:21:20,670 psychiatrists, hospitals, shock treatments, 377 00:21:22,411 --> 00:21:24,631 Mount Paran Church of God healing meetings. 378 00:21:24,673 --> 00:21:27,373 It was lifelong friends of my father whispering 379 00:21:27,415 --> 00:21:29,635 as they passed him in the hallway, 380 00:21:29,679 --> 00:21:31,594 banished from the locker room. 381 00:21:31,637 --> 00:21:34,902 They gave up, he gave up, I wanted to give up. 382 00:21:34,944 --> 00:21:38,339 But I can't give up on something that I love, 383 00:21:39,166 --> 00:21:40,342 and you can't either. 384 00:21:42,344 --> 00:21:44,346 I was driving myself crazy 385 00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:47,435 chasing my songwriting dream in Nashville. 386 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,265 And my mother called me and I could tell that 387 00:21:50,308 --> 00:21:54,182 my father's slow motion suicide was driving her insane, 388 00:21:54,224 --> 00:21:58,359 so I brought my father to live with me in Nashville. 389 00:21:58,403 --> 00:22:00,449 And when he left home, he would never go back 390 00:22:00,492 --> 00:22:03,017 to Atlanta again, and my mother and father 391 00:22:03,059 --> 00:22:05,498 would never live together under the same roof. 392 00:22:07,064 --> 00:22:09,545 My songwriting wasn't gaining any traction 393 00:22:09,588 --> 00:22:11,373 and I couldn't care for my father, 394 00:22:11,416 --> 00:22:14,288 so I reinvented myself as a real estate broker 395 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:17,378 and my father and I moved west to Dallas 396 00:22:17,423 --> 00:22:21,383 to drive my sister and brother -in-law crazy for a while. 397 00:22:21,426 --> 00:22:24,385 You can't give up on something that you love. 398 00:22:27,954 --> 00:22:29,434 The only way that I could pierce 399 00:22:29,478 --> 00:22:33,568 that fog of anti-depressants and psychiatric voodoo 400 00:22:33,613 --> 00:22:35,919 all those years was songs. 401 00:22:35,962 --> 00:22:39,140 Songs of Nat King Cole and Sinatra 402 00:22:39,182 --> 00:22:41,621 and Waylon and Willie and Hank. 403 00:22:41,663 --> 00:22:45,972 And freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, 404 00:22:46,016 --> 00:22:48,192 and feeling good was good enough for me 405 00:22:48,236 --> 00:22:49,541 and my Bobby McGee. 406 00:22:49,585 --> 00:22:53,067 My father loved Kris Kristofferson. 407 00:22:53,109 --> 00:22:55,765 As poorly as I had done in the music business, 408 00:22:55,808 --> 00:22:58,942 I actually fared worse in the real estate business. 409 00:22:58,986 --> 00:23:01,857 But interest rates went to twenty percent 410 00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:04,338 there was the Savings and Loan crisis. 411 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:08,038 It was about 1992 and sometimes in the afternoon, 412 00:23:08,082 --> 00:23:09,474 I'd go pick my father up 413 00:23:09,518 --> 00:23:12,433 and take him around with me on my sales calls. 414 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,349 We'd drive out to some shopping center, 415 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:17,874 I'd find a shady place and we'd park 416 00:23:17,917 --> 00:23:20,573 and he'd sleep and I'd start at one end 417 00:23:20,615 --> 00:23:23,096 of the shopping center and go to the other. 418 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:25,577 "I'm Tom Douglas from Cornerstone Real Estate. 419 00:23:25,621 --> 00:23:28,450 "I lease the shopping center down the road." 420 00:23:28,493 --> 00:23:30,583 I'd hand them my business card. 421 00:23:31,932 --> 00:23:35,544 At the same time I'm having an audible conversation 422 00:23:35,587 --> 00:23:36,632 with prospective tenants, 423 00:23:36,675 --> 00:23:39,068 I'm having an argument with Almighty God 424 00:23:39,113 --> 00:23:42,289 in which I say, "God, it seems unfair that 425 00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:44,161 "at 39 I'm jaded, cynical, 426 00:23:44,204 --> 00:23:46,555 "and incredibly disappointed with my life." 427 00:23:46,598 --> 00:23:48,426 Almighty God says, "My son, 428 00:23:48,470 --> 00:23:50,384 "you've been worshiping the creation 429 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:52,909 "instead of me, the Creator. 430 00:23:52,952 --> 00:23:54,519 "How's that working out for ya?" 431 00:23:56,042 --> 00:23:58,000 So there I stood at the crossroads, 432 00:23:58,045 --> 00:23:59,960 asking myself, "Who am I? 433 00:24:00,002 --> 00:24:02,744 "Where am I from and to whom do I belong?" 434 00:24:02,788 --> 00:24:05,922 Almighty God whispered, "You're a writer. 435 00:24:05,965 --> 00:24:07,576 "You're from this family. 436 00:24:07,619 --> 00:24:08,882 "You belong to me. 437 00:24:08,924 --> 00:24:10,839 "Your past is not your poison, 438 00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:13,146 "your past is your greatest gift. 439 00:24:13,190 --> 00:24:14,757 "Go write about the brokenness, 440 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,890 "go write about the healing 441 00:24:16,932 --> 00:24:20,588 "as you stumble down redemption road toward home." 442 00:24:26,508 --> 00:24:29,597 About a year later, I pulled in the parking lot 443 00:24:29,642 --> 00:24:32,992 and walked the dimly lit, lime green corridors 444 00:24:33,036 --> 00:24:35,560 of my father's nursing home in Dallas. 445 00:24:35,604 --> 00:24:38,738 Unable to speak, he'd become a shell of a man 446 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:44,439 with saggy sweatpants, soup stained pajama top, 447 00:24:44,482 --> 00:24:46,396 terrible slippers. 448 00:24:46,441 --> 00:24:48,050 Usually, when I went to see him, 449 00:24:48,095 --> 00:24:50,576 he would just lie on his bed with hands 450 00:24:50,618 --> 00:24:55,276 laced across his chest like that of a coffin pose. 451 00:24:55,318 --> 00:24:59,366 My anger, fury, simmering and disjointed prayers 452 00:24:59,410 --> 00:25:01,412 in a metal chair with a smiling picture 453 00:25:01,455 --> 00:25:02,848 of my mother between us. 454 00:25:04,807 --> 00:25:06,026 But this day... 455 00:25:06,068 --> 00:25:07,593 this day, I thought I had the wrong room. 456 00:25:07,635 --> 00:25:09,811 I turned the corner, the lights were on, 457 00:25:09,855 --> 00:25:12,423 music softly played on his cassette player 458 00:25:12,467 --> 00:25:14,556 and it was a song that I had written. 459 00:25:15,601 --> 00:25:18,255 He said, "Buddy, I love this one." 460 00:25:19,647 --> 00:25:22,607 The calm and gentle demeanor of a man whose countenance 461 00:25:22,651 --> 00:25:25,435 I had not seen in some 20-odd years 462 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,655 sat on the edge of a neatly made bed 463 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:29,570 with his hair combed, freshly shaven, 464 00:25:29,615 --> 00:25:33,749 starched white shirt and washed sweatpants. 465 00:25:33,792 --> 00:25:37,317 "Tommy, would you like a piece of Freedent gum?" 466 00:25:37,926 --> 00:25:39,493 the smiling man asked. 467 00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:42,192 After 19 years of living with a ghost, 468 00:25:42,236 --> 00:25:44,846 my father and I shared a piece of chewing gum 469 00:25:44,891 --> 00:25:45,805 and a little music. 470 00:25:45,847 --> 00:25:49,460 And I suppose that's why I love songs 471 00:25:49,503 --> 00:25:51,375 and I believe in miracles. 472 00:25:51,419 --> 00:25:53,726 Here's what he was listening to that day. 473 00:26:05,999 --> 00:26:10,873 ♪ Well I know I've disappeared a time or two 474 00:26:13,833 --> 00:26:18,619 ♪ And along the way I lost me and you 475 00:26:21,666 --> 00:26:26,627 ♪ I needed a new town for my new start 476 00:26:29,979 --> 00:26:35,810 ♪ Selling VCR's in Arkansas at a Walmart 477 00:26:35,855 --> 00:26:41,511 ♪ And I haven't had a drink in nineteen days 478 00:26:43,689 --> 00:26:48,867 ♪ My eyes are clear and bright without that haze 479 00:26:50,913 --> 00:26:56,657 ♪ I like the preacher from The Church of Christ 480 00:26:59,748 --> 00:27:05,013 ♪ Sorry that I cried when I talked to you last night 481 00:27:06,537 --> 00:27:11,717 ♪ I think I'm on a roll here in Little Rock 482 00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:18,548 ♪ I'm solid as a stone, baby, wait and see 483 00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:27,863 ♪ I've got just one small problem here in Little Rock 484 00:27:27,906 --> 00:27:33,607 ♪ Without you baby, I'm not me 485 00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:41,442 ♪ Lying here upon this motel bed 486 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,840 ♪ Thoughts of you explode inside my head 487 00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:55,934 ♪ Like a castle built upon the sand 488 00:27:59,721 --> 00:28:03,724 ♪ I let love crumble in my hand 489 00:28:06,162 --> 00:28:11,515 ♪ I think I'm on a roll here in Little Rock ♪ 490 00:28:25,268 --> 00:28:26,922 TOM: And we followed the song 491 00:28:26,965 --> 00:28:30,359 from the mournful bagpipes in the Scottish Highlands 492 00:28:30,403 --> 00:28:32,101 and we add a little shake to Shakespeare 493 00:28:32,144 --> 00:28:35,800 and we Bebopped with Bach and rolled over with Beethoven 494 00:28:35,844 --> 00:28:39,194 and migrated to the hills of Appalachia 495 00:28:39,239 --> 00:28:43,634 and breathed death and life and misery and redemption. 496 00:28:43,677 --> 00:28:47,595 And the low rumbling chants of the African slave ships 497 00:28:47,637 --> 00:28:50,945 all the way to the Alabama cotton fields where we met 498 00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:54,863 Robert Johnson and the devil at a Clarksdale crossroads. 499 00:28:54,906 --> 00:28:57,910 And we bounced across the Atlantic ocean 500 00:28:57,952 --> 00:29:02,261 to a transistor radio in Keith Richards' bedroom. 501 00:29:02,305 --> 00:29:03,785 And we followed the song and the glow 502 00:29:03,828 --> 00:29:06,875 of the rocket's red glare and we raised the flag 503 00:29:06,919 --> 00:29:10,226 in the dawns early light to marching bands 504 00:29:10,269 --> 00:29:11,662 under Friday night lights. 505 00:29:11,705 --> 00:29:15,057 With brother facing brother, in the uncivil war, 506 00:29:15,101 --> 00:29:17,972 the Yankees singing Nearer My God To Thee 507 00:29:18,017 --> 00:29:19,887 and the Confederates bellowing Dixie, 508 00:29:19,932 --> 00:29:23,848 to the greatest generation singing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, 509 00:29:23,892 --> 00:29:26,894 running down a lost highway to a bespeckled boy 510 00:29:26,939 --> 00:29:31,900 in Montgomery, Alabama who was so lonesome that he could cry. 511 00:29:31,943 --> 00:29:35,382 And we followed the song to the TEAC tape decks 512 00:29:35,424 --> 00:29:38,037 blasting the Ballad of the Green Berets 513 00:29:38,079 --> 00:29:41,561 all along the watchtower down the Ho Chi Minh trail. 514 00:29:41,605 --> 00:29:44,520 Walking the line down the long and winding 515 00:29:44,565 --> 00:29:47,088 yellow brick road with me andBobby McGee, 516 00:29:47,133 --> 00:29:49,961 and we still hadn't found what we're looking for. 517 00:29:50,005 --> 00:29:52,007 Talking to a pretty girl in the chair 518 00:29:52,050 --> 00:29:54,052 with friends in low places, 519 00:29:54,096 --> 00:29:56,619 with Indian outlaws wearing no shoes, 520 00:29:56,663 --> 00:30:01,059 no shirt, no problem, praying, "Jesus, take the wheel," 521 00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:05,106 with teardrops on my guitar, gently weeping. 522 00:30:07,066 --> 00:30:09,894 One of the fascinating perks of this profession 523 00:30:09,938 --> 00:30:13,028 are the interesting people that we get to meet. 524 00:30:13,071 --> 00:30:15,464 A few years ago, Alecia Moore, 525 00:30:15,509 --> 00:30:17,510 you might know her better as Pink, 526 00:30:17,554 --> 00:30:19,861 reached out to my friend Allen Shamblin and me 527 00:30:19,904 --> 00:30:23,604 because she loved our song, The House That Built Me. 528 00:30:23,646 --> 00:30:27,520 Alecia walked into my studio and sat right down 529 00:30:27,564 --> 00:30:30,001 on the hard concrete floor. 530 00:30:30,045 --> 00:30:33,005 What do you do when somebody sits on the floor? 531 00:30:33,048 --> 00:30:35,136 Well, you sit down right next to them. 532 00:30:35,181 --> 00:30:37,836 It's kind of a brilliant psychological move. 533 00:30:37,878 --> 00:30:42,710 We talked. She told us her story, we told her ours. 534 00:30:42,752 --> 00:30:46,278 We exposed our father wounds. It was a magic day. 535 00:30:46,322 --> 00:30:48,498 We wrote two songs. 536 00:30:48,541 --> 00:30:50,195 One of them is called Love Me Anyway, 537 00:30:50,239 --> 00:30:54,155 which is on P!nk's album, a duet with Chris Stapleton. 538 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,159 The other one is a song called Recovering. 539 00:30:58,856 --> 00:31:02,730 The famous, the infamous. The rich, the poor. 540 00:31:02,772 --> 00:31:04,905 We're all bleeding, we're all broken, 541 00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:06,951 we're all healing and... 542 00:31:07,865 --> 00:31:11,130 ♪ I am a recovering 543 00:31:11,826 --> 00:31:15,438 ♪ Anxiety addict 544 00:31:15,481 --> 00:31:18,963 ♪ A broken perfectionist 545 00:31:19,007 --> 00:31:21,967 ♪ Somewhat erratic 546 00:31:22,009 --> 00:31:25,884 ♪ I am a recovering 547 00:31:25,926 --> 00:31:29,451 ♪ Constant regretter 548 00:31:29,496 --> 00:31:32,541 ♪ Hold it against her 549 00:31:32,586 --> 00:31:35,936 ♪ At least till forever 550 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:41,247 ♪ And little by little Day by day 551 00:31:42,248 --> 00:31:46,208 ♪ One step at a time 552 00:31:46,251 --> 00:31:48,776 ♪ Shake off the devil 553 00:31:49,603 --> 00:31:52,519 ♪ Take back my piece of mind 554 00:31:52,561 --> 00:31:55,217 ♪ Tell them I love them 555 00:31:56,174 --> 00:32:00,005 ♪ Take back my piece of mind 556 00:32:00,048 --> 00:32:03,269 ♪ I am recovering 557 00:32:20,025 --> 00:32:22,027 How did a guy selling real estate 558 00:32:22,069 --> 00:32:25,987 and advertising in Atlanta, finally running away from home 559 00:32:26,030 --> 00:32:30,730 at the ripe old age of 27, to a four-year odyssey 560 00:32:30,773 --> 00:32:34,734 in music city but always on the outside looking in, 561 00:32:34,778 --> 00:32:40,261 leaving never to return, settling down in Dallas, Texas 562 00:32:40,306 --> 00:32:43,177 with a beautiful wife and three children, 563 00:32:43,221 --> 00:32:46,834 sitting down at a grand piano on a bright blue 564 00:32:46,876 --> 00:32:50,010 Saturday morning with a black and white composition book, 565 00:32:50,055 --> 00:32:51,751 a good cup of coffee, 566 00:32:51,795 --> 00:32:53,797 finally decide to tell the truth, 567 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,104 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? 568 00:32:56,147 --> 00:33:01,195 How did he become just another 25-year, 569 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,027 overnight sensation writing you a letter of hope, 570 00:33:06,070 --> 00:33:09,856 telling you everything you never wanted to know? 571 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:13,861 I gave up and the grace of God rescued me. 572 00:33:13,903 --> 00:33:15,950 Mine is really a story of failure. 573 00:33:15,993 --> 00:33:18,692 I didn't work and work and finally figure it out. 574 00:33:18,734 --> 00:33:21,215 I surrendered. I surrendered my past 575 00:33:21,259 --> 00:33:23,218 so I could get on with my future. 576 00:33:23,261 --> 00:33:27,656 In the summer of 2002, the famed Bluebird Cafe 577 00:33:27,701 --> 00:33:29,181 sent Allen Shamblin and his family, 578 00:33:29,223 --> 00:33:31,965 me and my family, out to Sundance, Utah 579 00:33:32,009 --> 00:33:34,055 to do a writer's round. 580 00:33:34,098 --> 00:33:36,491 One morning, Allen came in the restaurant 581 00:33:36,536 --> 00:33:38,058 and calmly said, "I've been thinking 582 00:33:38,103 --> 00:33:41,584 "of my childhood home. What if we wrote a song 583 00:33:41,627 --> 00:33:43,891 "not about the houses that we build, 584 00:33:43,933 --> 00:33:45,980 "but the house that built me?" 585 00:33:46,023 --> 00:33:50,288 As soon as Allen said that, the Earth tilted on its axis. 586 00:33:50,332 --> 00:33:52,377 The forks were suspended in midair, 587 00:33:52,421 --> 00:33:54,423 the water froze in the pitcher. 588 00:33:54,467 --> 00:33:57,338 That's the power of a good idea. 589 00:33:57,383 --> 00:34:00,255 Allen was thinking of his home in Huffman, Texas. 590 00:34:00,298 --> 00:34:03,605 I took a trip back to 3018 Argonne Drive, 591 00:34:03,650 --> 00:34:05,520 and maybe, just maybe, you're thinking 592 00:34:05,565 --> 00:34:07,784 of your childhood home right now. 593 00:34:07,827 --> 00:34:11,135 An idea is a powerful thing. It's a metaphor. 594 00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:13,050 It's our details and our memories, 595 00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:15,835 but it transports you back to another place 596 00:34:15,878 --> 00:34:17,664 and another time. 597 00:34:17,706 --> 00:34:20,231 You wanna slap somebody that starts a sentence with, 598 00:34:20,275 --> 00:34:23,235 "Socrates said," but Socrates said, 599 00:34:23,277 --> 00:34:26,672 "Man's greatest creative act is the ability to see 600 00:34:26,715 --> 00:34:28,021 "one thing as another." 601 00:34:28,065 --> 00:34:29,240 He's talking about metaphor. 602 00:34:29,284 --> 00:34:32,157 He's talking about the house that built me. 603 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,159 I begged Allen not to utter those five words 604 00:34:35,202 --> 00:34:38,728 to another living soul until we got back to Nashville. 605 00:34:38,771 --> 00:34:41,253 And true to his word, we got back, 606 00:34:41,295 --> 00:34:43,951 Allen had written four verses, I had written three. 607 00:34:43,994 --> 00:34:47,085 We put our first draft together. It was epic. 608 00:34:47,128 --> 00:34:49,565 It was 10 minutes long. We demoed it, 609 00:34:49,608 --> 00:34:51,219 we turned it in to the publisher 610 00:34:51,262 --> 00:34:54,875 and their response was, "Cool." 611 00:34:54,918 --> 00:34:57,268 Which in Nashville is code speak for, 612 00:34:57,311 --> 00:35:00,967 "We will never, ever, listen to that song again." 613 00:35:01,010 --> 00:35:03,536 Crushed but undaunted, Allen and I would get together 614 00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:09,628 over the next S-E-V-E-N years and work on other songs. 615 00:35:09,672 --> 00:35:13,110 In 2009, we dusted off the lyrics 616 00:35:13,153 --> 00:35:14,286 to The House That Built Me. 617 00:35:14,329 --> 00:35:16,722 We printed them off, which by this time were 618 00:35:16,766 --> 00:35:19,768 as voluminous as the novel East Of Eden. 619 00:35:19,813 --> 00:35:22,076 We spread it out on my coffee table, 620 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:25,905 we scratched out, we deleted, we etched out. 621 00:35:25,949 --> 00:35:28,735 Finally got down to the absolute essence, 622 00:35:28,777 --> 00:35:32,085 only to realize we were missing something. 623 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,306 We didn't have the setup line for the hook. 624 00:35:34,349 --> 00:35:36,873 We didn't have, "If I can just come in 625 00:35:36,916 --> 00:35:38,353 "I swear I'll leave. 626 00:35:38,396 --> 00:35:40,094 "Won't take nothing but a memory," 627 00:35:40,137 --> 00:35:42,052 from The House That Built Me. 628 00:35:42,922 --> 00:35:45,317 This time, we demoed it again. 629 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,275 We turned it in to the publisher. 630 00:35:47,318 --> 00:35:50,277 The sirens screamed, the lights flashed, 631 00:35:50,322 --> 00:35:53,193 and people freaked out. 632 00:35:57,503 --> 00:35:59,157 [PLAYS PIANO] 633 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:08,514 ♪ I know they say You can't go home again 634 00:36:12,518 --> 00:36:16,565 ♪ I just had to come back one last time 635 00:36:19,438 --> 00:36:25,356 ♪ Ma'am, I know you don't know me from Adam 636 00:36:26,574 --> 00:36:30,536 ♪ But these hand prints on the front steps 637 00:36:30,579 --> 00:36:32,014 ♪ Well, they're mine 638 00:36:34,103 --> 00:36:39,197 ♪ Up those stairs in that little back bedroom 639 00:36:41,721 --> 00:36:46,552 ♪ Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar 640 00:36:49,989 --> 00:36:56,344 ♪ And I bet you didn't know in the shade of that live oak 641 00:36:58,085 --> 00:37:01,958 ♪ My best dog is buried in the yard 642 00:37:05,396 --> 00:37:10,271 ♪ I thought if I could touch this place or feel it 643 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:17,409 ♪ This brokenness inside me might start healing 644 00:37:20,411 --> 00:37:24,023 ♪ Out here it's like I'm someone else 645 00:37:24,067 --> 00:37:28,246 ♪ I thought that maybe I could find myself 646 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,557 ♪ If I could just come in I swear I'll leave 647 00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:40,693 ♪ Won't take nothing but a memory 648 00:37:42,347 --> 00:37:47,438 ♪ From the house that built me 649 00:37:53,619 --> 00:37:58,666 ♪ Mama cut out pictures of houses for years 650 00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:05,630 ♪ From Better Homes and Garden magazine 651 00:38:08,503 --> 00:38:11,505 ♪ Plans were drawn and concrete poured 652 00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:15,554 ♪ And nail by nail and board by board 653 00:38:17,512 --> 00:38:20,601 ♪ Daddy gave life to mama's dream 654 00:38:24,606 --> 00:38:29,219 ♪ I thought if I could touch this place or feel it 655 00:38:31,873 --> 00:38:36,313 ♪ The brokenness inside me might start healing 656 00:38:39,534 --> 00:38:43,146 ♪ Out here it's like I'm someone else 657 00:38:43,190 --> 00:38:46,672 ♪ I thought that maybe I could find myself 658 00:38:50,762 --> 00:38:55,244 ♪ If I could just come in I swear I'll leave 659 00:38:56,420 --> 00:38:59,467 ♪ Won't take nothing but a memory 660 00:39:01,121 --> 00:39:05,733 ♪ From the house that built me 661 00:39:09,824 --> 00:39:12,262 ♪ You leave home You move on 662 00:39:12,306 --> 00:39:15,440 ♪ And you do the best you can 663 00:39:16,570 --> 00:39:19,922 ♪ And I got lost in this 'ole world 664 00:39:19,965 --> 00:39:24,231 ♪ And forgot just who I am 665 00:39:29,018 --> 00:39:33,414 ♪ I thought if I could touch this place or feel it 666 00:39:36,590 --> 00:39:40,378 ♪ This brokenness inside me might start healing 667 00:39:43,597 --> 00:39:46,557 ♪ Out here it's like I'm someone else 668 00:39:46,601 --> 00:39:51,170 ♪ I thought that maybe I could find myself 669 00:39:55,304 --> 00:39:59,614 ♪ If I could just come in I swear I'll leave 670 00:40:01,007 --> 00:40:04,226 ♪ Won't take nothing but a memory 671 00:40:05,619 --> 00:40:10,320 ♪ From the house that built me ♪ 672 00:40:31,951 --> 00:40:35,257 There's The House That Built Me and then there are the homes 673 00:40:35,302 --> 00:40:36,737 that we build. 674 00:40:36,782 --> 00:40:38,914 When I moved my family to Nashville 675 00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:42,483 the second time in 1997, a good friend, 676 00:40:42,527 --> 00:40:47,009 a great songwriter, took me aside for a drink 677 00:40:47,052 --> 00:40:49,141 and said, "You know pal, 678 00:40:49,184 --> 00:40:51,273 "there's nothing that a good divorce wouldn't do 679 00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:53,755 "to help your songwriting." 680 00:40:53,798 --> 00:40:56,235 I said, "That's fascinating, 681 00:40:56,278 --> 00:41:00,065 but I better check with my wife on that one." 682 00:41:00,108 --> 00:41:02,634 My heart and my home are in Katie, 683 00:41:02,677 --> 00:41:05,288 the love of my life, and my children, 684 00:41:05,331 --> 00:41:09,641 Katherine, Claire, and Tommy, my son-in-law, Austin, 685 00:41:09,684 --> 00:41:11,512 my granddaughter, Creasy. 686 00:41:12,338 --> 00:41:13,905 I hope you get married. 687 00:41:15,342 --> 00:41:18,213 I pray you're blessed with children. 688 00:41:18,257 --> 00:41:21,086 I hope your life is messy and complicated 689 00:41:21,130 --> 00:41:23,742 and beautiful and breathtakingly magical. 690 00:41:23,784 --> 00:41:26,614 Remember, it's all a love song. 691 00:41:26,657 --> 00:41:29,487 My wife and children walk in and out of the words 692 00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:31,097 and the music of all my songs. 693 00:41:33,795 --> 00:41:39,409 Little Rock was about my dad, but I couldn't stop there. 694 00:41:39,452 --> 00:41:43,065 1994, the son becomes the father 695 00:41:43,108 --> 00:41:44,762 and my son, Tommy, was born. 696 00:41:44,806 --> 00:41:48,288 My life was evolving and so were my songs. 697 00:41:48,331 --> 00:41:51,246 When the doctor said, "Congratulations, you have a..." 698 00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:53,335 He didn't say, "You have a boy," 699 00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:54,728 he said, "You have a son." 700 00:41:54,773 --> 00:41:57,601 My life and songs would never be the same. 701 00:41:57,644 --> 00:41:59,952 Without Tommy, no Grown Men Don't Cry. 702 00:41:59,994 --> 00:42:02,128 Without Tommy, no Drunk Girl, 703 00:42:02,170 --> 00:42:05,130 which is really just a fatherly admonition 704 00:42:05,173 --> 00:42:09,788 to a young man how to treat a young lady 705 00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:12,268 in a compromised situation. 706 00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:15,793 ♪ Take a drunk girl home 707 00:42:15,836 --> 00:42:19,623 In 2005, Tim McGraw asked me if I wanted to collaborate 708 00:42:19,666 --> 00:42:22,148 with him on the end title song of a movie 709 00:42:22,190 --> 00:42:23,715 that he was making, Flicka. 710 00:42:23,757 --> 00:42:27,762 I flew out to California and as the sun burned down 711 00:42:27,806 --> 00:42:30,635 on the Hollywood hills, I entered the movie set. 712 00:42:30,677 --> 00:42:34,028 I was absolutely panic stricken, 'cause they needed 713 00:42:34,072 --> 00:42:36,422 this amazing song in two weeks. 714 00:42:36,465 --> 00:42:39,121 So I flew home to Nashville the next day 715 00:42:39,164 --> 00:42:43,864 and my family was scheduled to go on our annual trip to Florida 716 00:42:43,909 --> 00:42:45,780 right after that, I told my wife Katie, 717 00:42:45,824 --> 00:42:48,652 "I gotta stay here. I gotta work on this song. 718 00:42:48,695 --> 00:42:50,829 "It's gotta be amazing." 719 00:42:50,871 --> 00:42:54,483 Of course she prevailed and I got in the station wagon 720 00:42:54,527 --> 00:42:56,704 the next morning and drove eight hours to Florida. 721 00:42:56,748 --> 00:43:00,664 It's ironic now, looking back, that I was trying to write 722 00:43:00,708 --> 00:43:02,840 a father-daughter song completely detached 723 00:43:02,884 --> 00:43:05,670 from my own children who were 10 feet away. 724 00:43:05,713 --> 00:43:08,802 About midweek, I was sitting on the porch and I was brooding, 725 00:43:08,847 --> 00:43:12,893 and Katie came out with two glasses of wine. 726 00:43:12,938 --> 00:43:15,896 You'd think she would chastise me and lower the boom 727 00:43:15,940 --> 00:43:17,420 for my pity party. 728 00:43:17,463 --> 00:43:20,815 Instead, she gave me a kiss on the cheek 729 00:43:20,858 --> 00:43:25,427 because you don't give up on someone that you love. 730 00:43:25,472 --> 00:43:29,431 And then she asked, "What's the story about?" 731 00:43:29,476 --> 00:43:31,739 "It's a father-daughter coming of age story." 732 00:43:31,782 --> 00:43:33,088 She said, "You have daughters. 733 00:43:33,132 --> 00:43:34,786 "Tell me about that." 734 00:43:34,829 --> 00:43:37,657 So I went through a typical day with my daughters and she said, 735 00:43:37,702 --> 00:43:40,791 "You have an evening ritual." I said, "I go upstairs, 736 00:43:40,835 --> 00:43:42,576 "I read The Chronicles of Narnia, 737 00:43:42,619 --> 00:43:44,969 "I kiss the girls goodnight. I turn off the light. 738 00:43:45,012 --> 00:43:49,496 "I say, 'I love you,' they say, 'Love you more.'" 739 00:43:49,539 --> 00:43:52,717 My wife is scribbling furiously in a yellow legal pad 740 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,762 and then she hands it to me and she says, "Here it is." 741 00:43:55,806 --> 00:43:58,896 I looked at it. In fact, there it was. 742 00:43:58,940 --> 00:44:00,811 Fathers and daughters, it's beautiful 743 00:44:00,855 --> 00:44:02,726 and it's complicated. 744 00:44:02,769 --> 00:44:07,775 All my hopes and dreams and aspirations bled into this song. 745 00:44:18,525 --> 00:44:21,920 ♪ You beautiful baby from the outside in 746 00:44:21,963 --> 00:44:26,489 ♪ Chase your dreams but always know the road 747 00:44:26,532 --> 00:44:29,710 ♪ That'll lead you home again 748 00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:33,713 ♪ Go on, take on this whole world 749 00:44:33,757 --> 00:44:37,978 ♪ But to me you know you'll always be 750 00:44:41,547 --> 00:44:44,072 ♪ My Little Girl 751 00:44:50,949 --> 00:44:56,867 ♪ Someday, some boy will come and ask me for your hand 752 00:44:56,911 --> 00:45:01,742 ♪ But I won't say yes to him unless I know 753 00:45:01,786 --> 00:45:04,963 ♪ He's the half that makes you whole 754 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,922 ♪ He has a poet's soul 755 00:45:09,141 --> 00:45:12,012 ♪ And the heart of a man's man 756 00:45:12,056 --> 00:45:14,929 ♪ I know he'll say that he's in love 757 00:45:15,974 --> 00:45:18,628 ♪ But between you and me 758 00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,634 ♪ He won't be good enough 759 00:45:26,766 --> 00:45:30,989 ♪ You're beautiful baby from the outside in 760 00:45:31,032 --> 00:45:35,427 ♪ Chase your dreams but always know the road 761 00:45:35,471 --> 00:45:37,735 ♪ That'll lead you home again 762 00:45:39,648 --> 00:45:41,956 ♪ Go on, take on this whole world 763 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,786 ♪ But to me you know you'll always be 764 00:45:50,485 --> 00:45:53,184 ♪ My little girl 765 00:46:11,028 --> 00:46:12,159 I love quotes. 766 00:46:13,596 --> 00:46:16,947 "You can go fast if you wanna go alone. 767 00:46:16,990 --> 00:46:20,559 "But if you wanna go far, you gotta go together." 768 00:46:21,255 --> 00:46:22,822 That's an African proverb. 769 00:46:32,137 --> 00:46:35,096 Thirty years after watching The Beatles 770 00:46:35,139 --> 00:46:37,882 on the Ed Sullivan show with my father, 771 00:46:37,925 --> 00:46:41,146 after the rollercoaster ride of addiction and depression, 772 00:46:41,188 --> 00:46:46,804 after the birth and death and resurrection of a dream, 773 00:46:46,847 --> 00:46:50,155 I came back to Dallas celebrating my song 774 00:46:50,197 --> 00:46:53,331 going number one in Nashville, and presented my father 775 00:46:53,375 --> 00:46:56,074 with a silver mint julep cup. 776 00:46:56,117 --> 00:46:59,599 It said, "June 1st, Number One, 1994, 777 00:46:59,641 --> 00:47:01,253 "Tom Douglas, Little Rock." 778 00:47:01,295 --> 00:47:03,297 It was a symbol of our achievement, 779 00:47:03,342 --> 00:47:06,300 as much as my father's as it was mine. 780 00:47:06,344 --> 00:47:08,521 He'd given me the blessing of his love 781 00:47:08,563 --> 00:47:10,001 and the gift of a song. 782 00:47:10,043 --> 00:47:13,134 And he showed it to every nurse and doctor and orderly 783 00:47:13,177 --> 00:47:17,704 that came in his nursing home room until the day he died. 784 00:47:35,460 --> 00:47:37,985 ♪ About the age that he was 785 00:47:39,030 --> 00:47:40,987 ♪ Second time he got sick 786 00:47:43,077 --> 00:47:45,079 ♪ And retired with a gold watch 787 00:47:46,907 --> 00:47:48,603 ♪ Tick tock tick 788 00:47:49,431 --> 00:47:52,913 ♪ He had faith in the doubts 789 00:47:52,956 --> 00:47:58,570 ♪ Working out his salvation me, I'm trying to live up 790 00:47:58,614 --> 00:48:01,007 ♪ To my father's reputation 791 00:48:07,797 --> 00:48:10,409 ♪ I'm the son of a salesman 792 00:48:10,452 --> 00:48:13,063 ♪ I got two-thirds of his name 793 00:48:14,847 --> 00:48:17,023 ♪ First one is Abel 794 00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:20,898 ♪ Second one Cain 795 00:48:20,940 --> 00:48:23,639 ♪ He got lost between high waves 796 00:48:24,465 --> 00:48:26,728 ♪ In the Book of Revelation 797 00:48:26,773 --> 00:48:29,514 ♪ Me, I'm trying to live down 798 00:48:29,557 --> 00:48:32,126 ♪ My father's reputation 799 00:48:34,954 --> 00:48:37,523 ♪ And love is complicated 800 00:48:37,565 --> 00:48:40,307 ♪ Between a father and a son 801 00:48:42,309 --> 00:48:44,791 ♪ Wanna use a son of a bitch 802 00:48:44,833 --> 00:48:47,967 ♪ And the other as a son of a gun 803 00:48:48,012 --> 00:48:51,797 ♪ Every song I write and every fight I fight 804 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,193 ♪ I resist the cruel temptation 805 00:48:55,235 --> 00:48:57,195 ♪ To redeem 806 00:48:57,237 --> 00:49:00,110 ♪ My father's reputation 807 00:49:06,378 --> 00:49:09,076 ♪ Got his picture on my desk 808 00:49:09,119 --> 00:49:11,949 ♪ Holding hands with my mother 809 00:49:13,688 --> 00:49:16,518 ♪ Their whole life before them 810 00:49:16,561 --> 00:49:19,217 ♪ God they loved each other 811 00:49:20,043 --> 00:49:23,047 ♪ He whispers let it go, boy 812 00:49:23,699 --> 00:49:25,657 ♪ I'm a new creation 813 00:49:25,701 --> 00:49:28,139 ♪ Tell your son 814 00:49:28,181 --> 00:49:31,010 ♪ It's your father's reputation 815 00:49:32,969 --> 00:49:35,188 ♪ I carry it home 816 00:49:36,494 --> 00:49:38,365 ♪ I carry the name 817 00:49:39,932 --> 00:49:42,849 ♪ And I hear his voice 818 00:49:42,891 --> 00:49:45,112 ♪ Through the drops of the rain 819 00:49:46,809 --> 00:49:48,985 ♪ Won't you come home 820 00:49:50,552 --> 00:49:52,206 ♪ Bill Bailey 821 00:49:53,554 --> 00:49:55,775 ♪ He left me some songs 822 00:49:57,036 --> 00:49:59,213 ♪ And an old ukulele 823 00:50:01,085 --> 00:50:04,523 ♪ And every song I write and every fight I fight 824 00:50:04,565 --> 00:50:07,351 ♪ I have a greater appreciation 825 00:50:10,094 --> 00:50:12,139 ♪ For my father's 826 00:50:13,139 --> 00:50:15,012 ♪ Reputation 827 00:50:24,282 --> 00:50:26,675 We all go through the dark night of the soul. 828 00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,503 Sorry, it goes with the job. Hank said it best, 829 00:50:29,547 --> 00:50:31,289 "Nobody gets out alive." 830 00:50:31,331 --> 00:50:34,552 Ours, yours is a noble calling. Mark Twain said 831 00:50:34,596 --> 00:50:36,510 the two most important days in your life 832 00:50:36,554 --> 00:50:39,644 is the day you're born and the day you figure out why. 833 00:50:39,688 --> 00:50:41,255 Well, we know why. 834 00:50:41,298 --> 00:50:43,300 We know why because we have to write. 835 00:50:43,344 --> 00:50:46,085 We have to write because a frightened mom and daddy 836 00:50:46,130 --> 00:50:48,610 on the ninth floor of a children's hospital 837 00:50:48,653 --> 00:50:51,264 are gonna need something inspiring to listen to 838 00:50:51,309 --> 00:50:54,137 while they wait for the prognosis of their sick baby. 839 00:50:54,181 --> 00:50:57,489 And the singer on a stage in Afghanistan 840 00:50:57,532 --> 00:51:01,057 is gonna need to bring a little home to homesick soldiers. 841 00:51:01,101 --> 00:51:02,929 And sometimes you just wanna 842 00:51:02,972 --> 00:51:06,802 roll the windows down and turn the radio up real loud. 843 00:51:12,590 --> 00:51:15,246 We're overcompensated and underpaid. 844 00:51:15,289 --> 00:51:16,550 We don't do it for the money. 845 00:51:16,594 --> 00:51:19,206 We would pay them to let us do it. 846 00:51:19,250 --> 00:51:22,208 We have brilliant advocates who will help us reconcile 847 00:51:22,253 --> 00:51:24,385 our art and their technology. Don't sweat it. 848 00:51:24,429 --> 00:51:27,735 If the art is compelling, we will get paid. 849 00:51:27,780 --> 00:51:30,260 We have a gift and with that gift comes 850 00:51:30,304 --> 00:51:31,871 an immense responsibility. 851 00:51:31,914 --> 00:51:35,440 We're responsible not to become the victims 852 00:51:35,483 --> 00:51:38,181 of the catastrophe of failure where we think that 853 00:51:38,224 --> 00:51:40,835 we're doomed and everything conspires against us, 854 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,101 or victims of the catastrophe of success, 855 00:51:44,143 --> 00:51:45,927 thank you, Tennessee Williams, 856 00:51:45,972 --> 00:51:48,800 where once removed from the struggle of creation. 857 00:51:48,844 --> 00:51:52,195 We're nothing but swords cutting daisies. 858 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,284 And the result of both these catastrophes 859 00:51:54,327 --> 00:51:57,114 is that we end up worshipping the creation 860 00:51:57,157 --> 00:51:58,766 and not the Creator. 861 00:51:58,811 --> 00:52:02,422 Idols ultimately require everything from you. 862 00:52:07,253 --> 00:52:11,476 In closing, my dear friend, in the end and in the beginning, 863 00:52:11,518 --> 00:52:16,784 God creates and we recreate. God redeems and so do we. 864 00:52:16,829 --> 00:52:19,135 We write down the songs that he gives us. 865 00:52:19,179 --> 00:52:22,443 He allows us to participate in this heavenly endeavor 866 00:52:22,487 --> 00:52:25,925 and through our anthems, heaven whispers and leads 867 00:52:25,967 --> 00:52:28,188 the prodigal child back home. 868 00:52:28,231 --> 00:52:31,670 And when we save one boy and save one girl, 869 00:52:31,713 --> 00:52:34,411 we in fact, save the whole world. 870 00:52:34,454 --> 00:52:38,851 So tonight all's well, but put your pen to paper 871 00:52:38,893 --> 00:52:41,331 because sooner or later, I will get lost 872 00:52:41,375 --> 00:52:44,856 and need you to help me find my way back home. 873 00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,338 Don't give up on something that you love, 874 00:52:48,382 --> 00:52:51,385 because I'll follow your song. 875 00:52:51,429 --> 00:52:56,608 That's why you're here. Love, Tom. 876 00:53:42,043 --> 00:53:45,351 TOM: That's why you're here. That's why. 877 00:53:47,485 --> 00:53:49,313 Love, Tom. 878 00:53:52,358 --> 00:53:54,621 [COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING] 879 00:54:03,588 --> 00:54:06,547 ♪ Through the dirt and the gravel 880 00:54:06,590 --> 00:54:08,679 ♪ Through the years and the miles 881 00:54:13,293 --> 00:54:16,340 ♪ Every road that you traveled 882 00:54:16,382 --> 00:54:19,168 ♪ Through the tears and the smiles 883 00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:26,567 ♪ Through the clear and the muddy 884 00:54:26,610 --> 00:54:28,394 ♪ Through the thick and thin 885 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,833 ♪ The quiet nights 886 00:54:31,876 --> 00:54:34,922 ♪ The howling wind 887 00:54:34,967 --> 00:54:37,838 ♪ Through the good and the ugly 888 00:54:37,882 --> 00:54:40,320 ♪ The blue and the black 889 00:54:44,889 --> 00:54:47,588 ♪ To the ends of the Earth 890 00:54:47,632 --> 00:54:50,286 ♪ To the moon and back 891 00:54:54,987 --> 00:54:57,989 ♪ And through all of the words 892 00:54:58,032 --> 00:55:00,297 ♪ The mean and the kind 893 00:55:04,865 --> 00:55:08,000 ♪ Through the strings that unravel 894 00:55:08,043 --> 00:55:11,525 ♪ And the ties that bind 895 00:55:14,659 --> 00:55:17,530 ♪ From the crazy and the different 896 00:55:17,574 --> 00:55:20,664 ♪ To the more of the same 897 00:55:20,708 --> 00:55:22,840 ♪ From the coast is clear 898 00:55:22,884 --> 00:55:24,451 ♪ To a hurricane 899 00:55:26,365 --> 00:55:29,456 ♪ Yeah, I'll be right beside you 900 00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,153 ♪ On a roll or off the tracks 901 00:55:36,463 --> 00:55:39,378 ♪ To the ends of the Earth 902 00:55:39,422 --> 00:55:42,208 ♪ To the moon and back 903 00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:48,083 [TYPEWRITER CLACKING]