In My Life

Capitol, under Universal. Memory with a ranking. The living love comes first.

Capitol, under Universal. These rooms, these friends, some of them gone, and then a turn. There is a person in front of him who matters more than the museum of his own past.

A house that only looks back becomes a museum. This record looks back and then chooses the living.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Every line earns the next. That is writing.
Household
8/10
People he loved, some dead, and he will not blur their faces.
Piety
6/10
The dead are kept. That is a piety of memory.
Courage
6/10
He says some are gone without dressing it.
Republic
6/10
Places and friends. A life is a set of loyalties.
Temperance
8/10
No excess. A short song that holds a life.
Truth
9/10
He does not pretend the lovers and the dead are the same weight.
Stewardship
9/10
A way to teach a child that people outrank scenery.

Live historicallyName three people who are in your life, including one who is gone and one who is in the house tonight.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1987

Warner Nashville · Warner Music Group

Forever and Ever, Amen

Warner Nashville, under Warner. As long as old men sit and talk about the weather. That is the term.

Warner Bros. Nashville released it. Warner Music Group holds the imprint. Travis does not sing a spark. He sings a term: as long as the old men are still talking about the weather, and after that. A house that cannot imagine a sentence that long will find this one embarrassing. That embarrassment is information.

If you play it at a wedding, be ready to play it in the tenth year.

The eight

Industry
7/10
A traditional voice, used for a traditional sentence, on purpose.
Household
10/10
The marriage is the subject, and the exit is not in the lyric.
Piety
6/10
Amen. He knows what he is invoking.
Courage
7/10
He says forever in a culture that hears it as naive.
Republic
5/10
Two people. The promise is still the kind a town can witness.
Temperance
8/10
No trial period. No second draft.
Truth
8/10
He says what he will do, not what he feels today.
Stewardship
9/10
A song a couple can be held to.

Live historicallyRead the vow in the chorus out loud on an ordinary Wednesday. Ask if it still stands.