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Cowboy Junkies — Flirted With You All My Life
Album: Demons
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Released: 2011
Length: 3:40
Plays (last 30 days): 1
I am a man
I am self-aware
And everywhere I go
You are always right there with me
I flirted with you all my life
Even kissed you once or twice
And to this day I swear it was nice
But clearly I was not ready.
When you touched a friend of mine
I thought I would lose my mind
And I found out with time
That really I was not ready, no, no
Oh death, oh death, oh death, really, I'm not ready

Oh death,
You me
Decimate those dear to me

Teased me with your sweet release
You are full and you are constant.
When my Mom she was cancer sick,
She fought but then succumbed to it
But you made her beg for it
Sweet Jesus, please I'm ready.

Oh death, oh death, oh death
Really, I'm not ready, no no no.
I'm not ready
I'm not ready
No, no
Oh death, oh death,
Really, I'm not ready.
Comments (78)add comment
 springof63 wrote:

Don't know if you've actually tried doing the 'upload' thing or not, but the 'process' is considerably more difficult, complicated, time consuming and ultimely un-rewarding, than i was expecting or hoping it would be. Personally i don't bother. i tend to just give a youtube link & anyone who wants to can check it out for themselves, so -
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Heres a link to 'Flirted With You All My Life' by Vic Chessnut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Z-kjr4BLs
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cheers.


I rather like this live version. Quite poignant.
 TerryS wrote:

Thanks, interesting stuff. BTW my son is in your namesake city, NZ as we speak. He had more success than me, an earthquake got in my way.
Sorry, that sounds callous, but I have been a bad omen for places, many have burned, exploded, flooded, quaked, revolted, or collapsed within a year or two of my visit, this one was the day before I was due to be there.
Or maybe the world is imploding around us.
Shite! where's that 20 year old single malt when you need it? 


I don't suppose you're thinking of booking a day trip to Moscow any time soon?
You never know it might work, without you even having to leave the house.
(if there's a 'tongue in cheek' emoji, i couldn't find it...)
Holy Shit

Amazing.

My first 10.
 idiot_wind wrote:

a great song, but the lyrics...oh my 

Them Timminses know Vic Chesnutt really knew how to get to you:
...
When my Mom she was cancer sick,
She fought but then succumbed to it
But you made her beg for it
...


edit: fixed.
c.
Jesus! 
bump 7 > 8
ya know...that bass line is pretty good 
Wow, just luv this song!
Hideous snare.
A day without margo and the cowboy junkies is not a good day
a great song, but the lyrics...oh my 
I didn't use to react to this song. Now, chills every time. I do not know why.
c.
Love CJ!!
Thank you so much for a great day of music! Well, it's my faves list but still - music has been a balm for my soul in this trying time and I appreciate you guys playing the best of the best. I find my new music on RP and my husband is an audiophile but he goes way out there past me. You must listen to the entire album if you want to listen at all . 
Stay well, stay safe, peace, and health to you both. 
 meatmike wrote:
Not as “moody” as most CJ. Nice, though...
 The tune may be upbeat, the lyrics, not so much.
But yeah, nice.
c.
Edit: I should have known this was a Vic Chesnutt song. There's a great tribute disc of his songs. Tragic loss.
Not as “moody” as most CJ. Nice, though...
Listening to CJ, great way to start the day !
my status up to 9 from 8
My status down 8 to 6
offline post test from 749
Great song indeed. But yeah, I sure ain't either! ASTS. 
I didn't realize it was a cover.  Thanks for the info.  Very powerful lyrics about the last enemy.
A-freakin-mazing.  What a song! Thanks for playing this Bill.
My favourtie band. Can’t wait for the new album!
Jeeze, as if these days aren't sad enough.
8-Most Excellent for me  :-)
 springof63 wrote:

Don't know if you've actually tried doing the 'uplaod' thing or not, but the 'process' is considerably more difficult, complicated, time consuming and ultimely un-rewarding, than i was expecting or hoping it would be. Personally i don't bother. i tend to just give a youtube link & anyone who wants to can check it out for themselves, so -
.
Heres a link to 'Flirted With You All My Life' by Vic Chessnut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Z-kjr4BLs
cheers.

 
Thanks, interesting stuff. BTW my son is in your namesake city, NZ as we speak. He had more success than me, an earthquake got in my way.
Sorry, that sounds callous, but I have been a bad omen for places, many have burned, exploded, flooded, quaked, revolted, or collapsed within a year or two of my visit, this one was the day before I was due to be there.
Or maybe the world is imploding around us.
Shite! where's that 20 year old single malt when you need it? 
 hayduke2 wrote:
Wow, thank you Lazarus! I knew nothing of Vic Chestnut til now, and my appreciation of the Junkies has grown
(scroll down and see the videos Laz posted last January)
 
Happy New Year in 2017, hayduke2!!  Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of elevators loves this groovy cover...  we be dancing like happy hippies...  time flies when we're having fun...  love Radio Paradise soooo much...
 lazylemming wrote:
damn, this is one powerful song... i lost my dad 6 months ago to cancer and this just hits near the heart... wow... wasn't expecting that...

 
Requiescat in pace
Dark and beautiful. Thanks, RP.
damn, this is one powerful song... i lost my dad 6 months ago to cancer and this just hits near the heart... wow... wasn't expecting that...
ah yes, from the best of the RP archive
 TerryS wrote:

Upload it y'self and await the judgement........
Please, I'm intrigued. 

 
Don't know if you've actually tried doing the 'upload' thing or not, but the 'process' is considerably more difficult, complicated, time consuming and ultimely un-rewarding, than i was expecting or hoping it would be. Personally i don't bother. i tend to just give a youtube link & anyone who wants to can check it out for themselves, so -
.
Heres a link to 'Flirted With You All My Life' by Vic Chessnut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Z-kjr4BLs
.
cheers.
 leafmold wrote:
Would it be too much to ask that RP play Vic Chesnutt? I like this cover, but how about the original?

 
Upload it y'self and await the judgement........
Please, I'm intrigued. 
Would it be too much to ask that RP play Vic Chesnutt? I like this cover, but how about the original?
 sirdroseph wrote:
Yea it is a travesty that there is none of the great Vic Chestnutt on RP, but they play the Junkies.{#Rolleyes} Hey, to each his own.

 
Have to agree with this.
 
Lazarus wrote:

 

Everybody in my church loves this cover...

this song is by Vic Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009)... we miss you, Vic...



 



 
Wow, thank you Lazarus! I knew nothing of Vic Chestnut til now, and my appreciation of the Junkies has grown
(scroll down and see the videos Laz posted last January)
 rabaak wrote:
And to think, I used to hate the Cowboy Junkies. Mostly due to the stuff they played on the AM radio. Thanks to RP, they have become one of my favorite groups.

 
This band got played on AM radio?  Are you sure about that?
Relating & Power - full but would love to hear the original.  
Oh, death.
And to think, I used to hate the Cowboy Junkies. Mostly due to the stuff they played on the AM radio. Thanks to RP, they have become one of my favorite groups.
I have 'heard' this song before, but I've never 'listened' to it until now. Wow. Intense, especially after learning its provenance.
 gatorade wrote:
{#Yes}{#Dance}  Bitchin' song.

 
+1
 Geecheeboy wrote:
I thought she was singing "Deb."  Then I clicked on the lyrics link. Sweet Jesus. I am so shallow.
 
Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle ..... because I did, too.
Can you play Vic's version sometime?  Like this one too....but prefer the original.
yea Bill, the wiki entry on Vic Chesnutt was indeed insightful, ta for the nod! {#Yes}
Thanks Bill.  CJ's are my fave and this song goes deep !!!!!!

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all over the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners...  love this song soooo much...  love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
I thought she was singing "Deb."  Then I clicked on the lyrics link. Sweet Jesus. I am so shallow.
Yea it is a travesty that there is none of the great Vic Chestnutt on RP, but they play the Junkies.{#Rolleyes} Hey, to each his own.
BillG - get out of my head!  I was just looking for the request a song button 10 min ago - for this song!
They just keep making good music.
This is an extremely up-tempo song for Margo and the rest of the Boring Flunkies.
I can hardly believe my ears. It only took them a few decades.
{#Yes}{#Dance}  Bitchin' song.
 rtrt wrote:
thanks for the videos Lazarus
 

I hope you are having a nice time right this minute, rtrt...

time flies when we're having fun...  love this profound cover...
 
 Lazarus wrote:

 

Everybody in my church loves this cover...

this song is by Vic Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009)... we miss you, Vic...


 



 

thanks for the videos Lazarus
Good song which I had not heard before.  

Everybody in my churches loves this cover....
 

Time flies when we're having fun...  love this cover...
 
What a great (but haunting) song!  Margo's voice is perfect for this cover.
I used to hate the Cowboy Junkies based on what I heard on the AM/FM Radio. Now after listening to RP, they are one of my favorite groups. And I love this song.
amazing song... followed me the last couple of days while travelling the Balkans and thinking about the girl from UÅŸice...

gorgeous cover...  soooo profound...  love this...
 
..love this tune..lyrics touch me as so very personal & so transcendent, simultaneously..

 ______________
Songwriters: VIC CHESNUTT

I am a man
I am self-aware
And everywhere I go
You are always right there with me
I flirted with you all my life
Even kissed you once or twice
And to this day I swear it was nice
But clearly I was not ready.

When you touched a friend of mine
I thought I would lose my mind
And I found out with time
That really I was not ready, no, no
Oh death, oh death, oh death, really, I'm not ready

Oh death, 
You me 
Decimate those dear to me
Teased me with your sweet release
You are full and you are constant.
When my Mom she was cancer sick, 
She fought but then succumbed to it
But you made her beg for it
Sweet Jesus, please I'm ready.

Oh death, oh death, oh death
Really, I'm not ready, no no no.
I'm not ready
I'm not ready
No, no
Oh death, oh death, 
Really, I'm not ready.
Doesn't sound unlike Nathalie Merchant / 10,000 Maniacs. 
The more I hear Cowboy Junkies, the more I like their hypnotic and evocative sound.  
Infectious bass line......
Like, much.
 devilturtle wrote:
Lazarus -

Those Vic Chesnutt links are fantastic! I hadn't know of Vic., now I miss him.

Thank you for posting them!
 

Thank you!

This is an excellent cover from a fine album...  all of the songs on the album are Vic Chesnutt covers...  although the album is a tribute to Vic Chesnutt, the band is also providing a realistic perspective of the demons he struggled with his entire life...
 
Lazarus -

Those Vic Chesnutt links are fantastic! I hadn't know of Vic., now I miss him.

Thank you for posting them!


Vic Chesnutt, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
by Ben Sisario
The New York Times
December 25, 2009

Vic Chesnutt, whose darkly comic songs about mortality, vulnerability and life’s simple joys made him a favorite of critics and fellow musicians, died Friday in a hospital in Athens, Ga., a family spokesman said. He was 45 and lived in Athens.

He had been in a coma after taking an overdose of muscle relaxants earlier this week, said the spokesman, Jem Cohen.

Mr. Chesnutt had a cracked, small voice but sang with disarming candor about a struggle for peace in a life filled with pain. A car crash at age 18 left him partly paralyzed, and he performed in a wheelchair.

The accident, he has said, focused him as a songwriter, and it became the subject of some of his earliest recordings. “I’m not a victim/Oh, I am an atheist,” Mr. Chesnutt sang in “Speed Racer,” from his first album, “Little,” produced by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and released in 1990...
 










 

Everybody in my church loves this cover...

this song is by Vic Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009)... we miss you, Vic...



 


I need to check out this new CD from CJ ... any reactions out there from fellow RP-ers? Did you like it? Did you not? Cheers! {#Cheers} (I like this track!)
Vic, the world is a lesser place without you.  

This is a good tribute. Maybe some day Radio Paradise might give his music a spin. I gave up trying. Tragically so did Vic and eventually he was tired of flirting and felt ready. 
Tnx RP, excellent track from CJs.
Terrific Bass line ....  reminds me of Tommy Mac
First time hearing this.(8)
..It could easily go higher.