Cogs can think.

Due to all my Fiona worshipping, you’d almost forget that there are actually other artists in my world. There is one song that in all its simplicity has more emotional power than just about anything else I’ve ever heard. The Ballad Of Billy Jo McKay, one of the most touching and endearing songs I’ve ever heard.

My name’s Billy Jo McKay,
I just turned 16 yesterday
I’m gonna get the nerve one day
To get outta here

My ma passed on 3 years ago,
they said it was cancer and it took her slow
And ever since then I’ve been
Sayin’ no to my daddy and my tears

Now when you come down our road
You gotta watch the bump
Right there across from the garbage dump
You can find me out back
Jumpin’ on the trampoline

And in the springtime
We’ll be skippin’ school
We sneak off to the Cantrell’s swimming pool
Man, you can’t get much cooler
than me and my friend Darlene

Now my grandaddy’s hands are worn
From 50 years of growin’ corn
Back behind the house where I was born
Before he had to sell
And my cousin Eddie,
He got shot in the Wal-Mart parkin’ lot
Yeah this little town’s changed a lot,
He said it hurt like hell

My name’s Billy Jo McKay,
It’s a hot Mississippi summer saturday
Daddy’s on the front porch with uncle Dave,
drinkin’ Dixie beer

16 years of being bored
My window’s open, forget the door
Hope there’s some gas in the old man’s Ford
‘cause I’m outta here
I’m outta here, I’m outta here

Maybe I’ll go down to Biloxi
Or maybe to New Orleans
Or maybe Hotlanta