Music Trivia - Ryan Bingham - All Choked Up Again

Lyrics

I'm all choked up again

With these two hands and the rage I'm in

I think I just killed a man

I think it was my old man

I hadn't seen him in years and now he's bleedin' tears

And his head is in the palm of my hand

All choked up again

Have you ever met up a little command

That couldn't break a pool boy's chin?

And here it all is again

Went all in I got stuck in a jam

That's what you get when you're a gamblin' man

Well, every day you seem to dig a little deeper

Into nothin' that is left behind

Up all night 'til it's early in the mornin'

And the whole damn world's on fire

I close my eyes and I wanna start runnin'

But my legs are broken and tied

Everything around me starts spinnin'

And I realize I'm buried alive

This ain't no place for kids

But when you're raised in a bucket of rain

You either die or you learn to swim

I just need to see my baby again

She took my hand there from where it began

Said she would love me with trouble I was in

And every day I seem to dig a little deeper

Into nothin' that is left behind

Up all night 'til it's early in the mornin'

And the whole damn world's on fire

I close my eyes and I wanna start runnin'

But my legs are broken and tied

And everything around me starts spinnin'

And I realize I'm buried alive

I'm all choked up again

With these two hands and the rage I'm in

I think I just killed a man

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On his third album, songwriter Ryan Bingham reveals both confidence and growth. His previous recordings showed promise but were marred by youthful excesses. Bingham won an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from the film Crazy Heart. The song was produced by T-Bone Burnett, creating a partnership extended on Junky Star. Bingham and his Dead Horses--drummer Matthew Smith, bassist Elijah Ford, and guitarist Corby Schaub--create a sound planted deeply in folk, country, blues, and roots rock. These lyrically direct songs, reflect lost, desperate, displaced individuals, all dreaming the same dark dream; all of them growing tenser with the times--and some fall over the edge. Even the rowdy outlaw country closer, "All Choked Up Again," mines the existential darkness deeper.

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