Cheap Guitar Gospel
Still plays the eighty-dollar guitar he bought at nineteen and refuses better ones
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 103
- key
- G minor
- energy
- 0.72
- dance
- 0.95
- valence
- 0.56
- vocal at
- 7.4s
- length
- 4:14
- language
- En
lyrics
(instrumental, roadhouse) Eighty dollars, nineteen years old, a pawn shop in Lubbock The neck's a little warped and the third fret buzzes Every man who's heard it has offered to buy me better (buy me better) And every one of them has misunderstood the point It ain't about the wood (about the wood) It's about who I was when I picked it up Cheap guitar gospel (gospel, gospel) The truth don't need a better instrument Cheap guitar gospel Play it bad enough and it turns holy My wife has heard this thing for thirty-one years Through two bad decades and one very good one She says she can tell what kind of day I had (kind of day) By which string I hit hardest before I sit down (solo guitar, imperfect, honest) Hear that buzz? That's the whole sermon. (BAND CRASHES BACK IN) Cheap guitar gospel (gospel, gospel) The truth don't need a better instrument Cheap guitar gospel Play it bad enough and it turns holy (gospel...)