[00:04.80]I was down at my favorite watering hole
[00:07.72]With a buddy of mine that was out on parole
[00:10.23]And we were flipping through the jukebox
[00:11.95]Talking how we'd been and how we are
[00:13.97]
[00:15.39]He'd got a library card and he'd pierced his tongue
[00:18.09]And a buddy in prison had turned him onto Neil Young
[00:20.69]And he thought that it'd be best to play some for the entire bar
[00:24.31]
[00:25.94]Now he didn't know but while he was in jail
[00:28.44]I'd had my heart broken by a woman to wondrous to tell
[00:31.20]And we'd fallen in love to half the songs that jukebox played
[00:34.99]
[00:36.24]So when he flattened his dollar on the side of the machine
[00:39.20]And I saw Comes a Time come on the karaoke screen
[00:41.71]I'd realized there was a couple things I had forgot to say
[00:45.01]
[00:46.19]Don't play Neil Young
[00:47.88]
[00:48.76]Don't play Van Morrison
[00:50.76]
[00:51.40]Just let some high school emo band start versing and chorusing
[00:54.80]Because there's no way it will break my heart as far as I can see
[01:01.71]
[01:03.98]And that's why modern radio is A OK with me
[01:08.44]
[01:12.80]He said a pop song used to be a powerful thing
[01:15.50]You could turn on the a m and John Lennon would sing
[01:18.33]Or Frank Sinatra would be talking to all of the girls
[01:21.25]
[01:23.26]And you could think like a hawk or think like a dove
[01:26.01]Or think of a winter afternoon when you fell in love
[01:28.79]And ten songs on a record sounded like a string of pearls
[01:32.58]
[01:33.81]Now my buddy rattled on till an hour'd gone by
[01:36.12]And I thought to spit a mouthful of beam in his eye
[01:39.03]Maybe leave him for dead but a friend is a friend to stay
[01:42.96]
[01:44.18]So I listened to him talk about Johnny and June
[01:46.86]And how I don't know where I stand is a true love tune
[01:49.63]I bought another round just in time to hear him say
[01:52.89]They don't play Sam Cooke
[01:55.72]
[01:56.53]They don't play Merle Watson
[01:58.55]
[01:59.10]They just trade some Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham for a broke-down Datsun
[02:03.75]
[02:04.78]And there's no way it'll break my heart as far as I can see
[02:09.20]
[02:11.83]And that's why modern radio is a sack of monkeys to me
[02:16.25]
[02:30.11]He said it makes me so mad I want to get up and shout it
[02:44.54]
[02:46.75]And I smiled and said I hadn't thought that much about it
[02:52.25]We walked out the street and parted ways
[02:55.99]
[02:57.15]I might've gone to a movie but my money was spent
[02:59.80]So I went on home and Lord knows where he went
[03:02.50]But I wrote myself a letter to all modern dj's
[03:05.25]Don't play Bob Dylan
[03:08.46]
[03:09.66]Don't play Loose Ends
[03:12.15]Don't play anybody that's ever read Sir Patrick Spens
[03:17.70]Because there's no way it'll break my heart as far as I can see
[03:22.40]
[03:24.88]And that's why modern radio is a-ok with me