Crazy Lonesome (a/k/a A Memory Away)
Author: Ryan Adams

Official Appearance:

N/A

Unofficial Appearance:

Forever Valentine -- Whiskeytown
Played Live: 03/04/98 10/21/99
05/15/98
09/04/98
09/06/98
09/08/98
09/09/98
09/10/98

10/01/98
10/02/98
Notes:  
  1. “This is a song that actually has never come out but is really funny that we wrote; I don’t know if it’s funny ha-ha or what, but maybe it’s just funny.  I don’t think I remember how it fucking starts. A right?”  Ryan Adams, 10/21/99.
  2. "Yeah, 'Crazy Lonesome.'  We wrote that in St. Louis, drunk underneath the arch, without a guitar. With just a pen, and the back of some fucking coupon thing."  Ryan Adams, in an October 1999 interview with J. Holdren for 9x magazine.

Lyrics:  

I been crazy lonesome since you left me
And you left me 'cause I was crazy, anyway
Well I got me a job and I been making money
That only keeps me busy in the day

Well, money can’t buy your love back, anyway
Your memory’s too expensive, I can’t pay
I been shopping every night for other women who won’t fight
But I just can’t buy your memory away

Well I been treating’ everyone like I'm an asshole
And I been treating’ myself to beer and wine
Well I been shopping every night for other women
But damn if it ain’t what my money just can’t buy

Well, money can’t buy your love back, anyway
Your memory’s too expensive, I can’t pay
I go shopping every night for other women who won’t fight
But I just can’t buy your memory away
No, I just can’t buy your memory away

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