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I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi.
My girlfriend blows a boozy good-bye kiss.
I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata.
Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone.
Still, I'm feeling pretty good about the future.
Yeah, everything is peaches but the cream.
I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi,
where things is always better than they seem.
Things is always better than they seem.
I see the guitar that my cousin played in prison,
floating with the tv in the swimming pool.
I'm calling for the owner of the motel,
then noticing the bloodstain on the door.
I'm reaching for the shoes under the bushes,
just in time to hear the sirens sing.
I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi,
where things is always better than they seem.
Things is always better than they seem.
You know freedom's just a stupid superstition,
'cause life's a highway that you travel blind.
It's true that having fun's a terminal addiction.
What good is happiness, when it's just a state of mind?
For in the prison of perpetual emotion,
we're all shackled to the millstone of our dreams.
Me, I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi,
where things is always better than they seem.
Things are always better than they seem.
| MirageRF (Clemmons, NC, USA) | Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 13:32 Everyone on the cell block loves this song! |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 19:06 Cynaera wrote: I love everything about this song - the lyrics, the story, the title... I'll post lyrics, but can't vouch for their accuracy. Yes, this song is profound lyrically, with cool music... we be dancing... miss you so much, Cynaera... |
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: Dec 23, 2012 - 10:38 I turn the volume to zero and just read your comments... |
| richlister | Posted: Jul 19, 2012 - 06:24  A man of many talents, it seems. |
| abbey_normal | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 12:19 Lol, this'll be a song I play in the car with the wife present. About 2 minutes in she'll say, "Is he saying 'Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi'?". I'll say "Yeap". She'll shake her head. The world will be in a perfect place. |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 12:14 is bad |
| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Sep 06, 2011 - 14:10 I love everything about this song - the lyrics, the story, the title... I'll post lyrics, but can't vouch for their accuracy. I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi. I see the guitar that my cousin played in prison, You know freedom's just a stupid superstition, |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Aug 06, 2011 - 04:42 Fun as hell. If Lou Reed had been born in Divine Judgement, Alabama he might have written this. The title is hilarious  |
| Nerubo (Denver, CO) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 14:32 I'm a huge fan of this song. Like another song I like a lot (Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road") it might at first glance seem, well, redneck. But it paints a vivid picture of said redneck culture. While I would not want to live in the place described, I appreciate that vividness. I also love lines like — "What good is happiness when it's just a state of mind? "We're all shacked to the millstones of our dreams." |
| run4more (The cave) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 14:31 nagsheadlocal wrote: This brings out the inner redneck in me. I've never owned a TransAm, but I have woken up to discover my VW missing along with my shoes and my wallet. pinto wrote: Almost makes you wanna grab a whiskey and Coca-Cola. Almost. whaddya mean almost? Skip the cola. btw—my favorite song of the day. and yes, a little redneck... |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 14:30 Blaggart wrote: More of a debt to Cake than Hank, I'd think. Indeed. |
| pinto (west meade) | Posted: Jan 29, 2011 - 05:23 nagsheadlocal wrote: This brings out the inner redneck in me. I've never owned a TransAm, but I have woken up to discover my VW missing along with my shoes and my wallet. Almost makes you wanna grab a whiskey and Coca-Cola. Almost. |
| Blaggart | Posted: Jan 29, 2011 - 05:19 cohifi wrote: Whoa....almost c&w, certainly a dwight wannabee! 3.5 More of a debt to Cake than Hank, I'd think. |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Oct 26, 2010 - 12:46 nagsheadlocal wrote: This brings out the inner redneck in me. I've never owned a TransAm, but I have woken up to discover my VW missing along with my shoes and my wallet. Owned a Camaro once. Almost the same thing. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 20:30 Whoa....almost c&w, certainly a dwight wannabee! 3.5 |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: May 20, 2010 - 04:57 This brings out the inner redneck in me. I've never owned a TransAm, but I have woken up to discover my VW missing along with my shoes and my wallet. |
| gumbo73039 (Devon, England) | Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 10:37 Wifeys bum is jiggling to this, she ain't no hillibilly wench! |
| Bone (Divided States of Sanity) | Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 10:36 overproduced, repetitive, half-assed attempt at not much of something... enough with the quasi-yodel. |
| Mank_Harvin (UK) | Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 10:30 cosmiclint wrote: Wait ... did the dude who stole his Trans Am handcuff him to the fence? I had the impression it was his girlfriend that did the deed, fancying the car more than the handcuffed. |
| cosmiclint (Vancouver BC) | Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 10:22 Wait ... did the dude who stole his Trans Am handcuff him to the fence? |
| cdysthe (Round Rock, TX) | Posted: May 06, 2009 - 07:39 This song makes want to get insanely drunk (or similar) and have irresponsible fun! Well, it's 9:37 am, a bit early for that I guess....or is that late? :)
Love Jim White and this song! :)
"Having fun is a terminal addiction" .Yeah!
//C |
| to_the_eleven (in the groove) | Posted: Mar 04, 2009 - 05:41 I was seeing a pattern with the last few songs, so I looked it up, and yes, Today is National Banjo Day! |
| MTachyon (Neon United Trails) | Posted: Jan 31, 2009 - 16:07 I downloaded half a dozen tunes by Jim White after hearing this one. Some extraordinary stuff and thoughtful lyrics, e.g., "For in the prison of perpetual emotion, we're all shackled to the millstone of our dreams." |
| michaelgmitchell (Belleville, ON Canada) | Posted: Nov 29, 2008 - 10:11 Overall(s), quite catchy. |
| grimmel (Davis, CA) | Posted: Jun 24, 2008 - 10:17 Another reason I listen to RP love the silly songs and I make a list of these songs so I can put together nice long play lists for my mp3 player...songs for my motorcycle rides.... |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Jun 24, 2008 - 10:17  |
| lmic (Sacramento, CA) | Posted: Jun 24, 2008 - 10:16 Deep South Vipassana - love it! |
| coolpeople_rule | Posted: Mar 22, 2008 - 00:04 wferrier wrote: Sounds like My Name Is Earl.
I worked for a company out of Terry, MS for a while...what fun that was. One of the guys was friends with Afroman...But then I got high...what a trip that was. Life is experience. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: Nov 17, 2007 - 05:25 Sounds like My Name Is Earl. |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 15, 2007 - 10:23 eastcoast wrote: Must be sound alike band day on RP...sounds like Lou Reed/Dire Straits
 yeah they sound the same  |
| Cruithne3753 (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Sep 15, 2007 - 10:17 What's that Kasabian song? Or was this first? EDIT: Yep, Cutt Off does owe a lot to this... |
| Contaminator (Serbia (...is not suburbia)) | Posted: Jul 14, 2007 - 12:16 Wow, great lyrics!!  |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: May 12, 2007 - 18:02 As if you're actually listening to the lyrics, you can't even get beyond his voice. More Jim White please! 
raven121x wrote: Oh my gosh these lyrics suck. And the yodeling can stop any minute now....  |
| Daveinbawlmer (Bawlmer, Merlin. Hon.) | Posted: May 12, 2007 - 17:57 He awoke to find his Trans Am gone.... Lucky him, he can buy a better car now .. *shrug* |
| Bosonator (Nova Scotia) | Posted: Apr 11, 2007 - 05:48 Definitely can't relate directly, but it gets my groove on. Handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, eh? How wonderfully disquieting. :) |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Mar 10, 2007 - 22:31 savoyard wrote: Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song? Well, Gilbert and Sullivan it ain't. And yeah there are parts of it that any experienced person can relate to.  I mean, jeeze, who hasn't? |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Feb 23, 2007 - 08:04 MM13 wrote: "Horribilly"
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| handyrae (Zero Point Field) | Posted: Feb 23, 2007 - 07:35 savoyard wrote: Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song?
Well, I'm not a man, a hillybilly nor have I ever been to Mississippi, but I love this song. So yeah. (And, for what it's worth, I wouldn't call this hillybilly music.) |
| MM13 (High in the lo country) | Posted: Feb 23, 2007 - 07:33 savoyard wrote: Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song?
I think you may have introduced a new music genre: |
| ruthless (Midtown Memphis) | Posted: Feb 23, 2007 - 07:31 This is a very interesting CD. I cannot decide if it is dark brilliance or catchy trash. I think it is the former...... |
| JerseeeGirl (thegreatstateof) | Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 13:58 I don't like analyzing every song I hear on the radio. Don't care if you call it hill-billy or bill-hilly, ... if it sounds good that's enough for me........ and this song does  |
| ruthless (Midtown Memphis) | Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 13:46 savoyard wrote: Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song?
Yep. Grew up in MS in the 50's / 60's. This is hardly "hillbilly". |
| Dragonfly_Launch (Conway, Ar) | Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 13:45 There is a great difference in being "hillbilly" and understanding "hillbilly" to the point of interpreting it and turning it into a tongue-in-cheek small piece of art. savoyard wrote: Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song? |
| fretman | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 12:52 Ahh, good to hear a rational argument for or against a piece of music, with no emotions getting in the way. C'mon, tell us how you really feel! tnt_thomas wrote: This ain't "country." I hate country and I like this. It has twanging accented singing, but it ain't country. Or you'd hear/read me shrieking here!   |
| tnt_thomas (Prince George, BC) | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 12:48 rKokon wrote: For their own benefit, I beg the kneejerk critics who dismiss him as "country" to reconsider.
This ain't "country." I hate country and I like this. It has twanging accented singing, but it ain't country. Or you'd hear/read me shrieking here! |
| popularmechanics (Cape Breton Canada) | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 12:42 i got this cd from a radiostation that was getting rid of stuff... what a loss for them and a great surprise for me... |
| savoyard (Indiana) | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 12:42 Besides being horribly hillbilly, can anyone actually relate to this song? |
| eastcoast | Posted: Dec 11, 2006 - 12:41 Must be sound alike band day on RP...sounds like Lou Reed/Dire Straits |
| rKokon (Colesville, MD) | Posted: Sep 29, 2006 - 09:39 hippiechick wrote: I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi.
My girlfriend blows a boozy good-bye kiss. I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata. Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone. Still, I'm feeling pretty good about the future. Yeah, everything is peaches but the cream. I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things is always better than they seem. I see the guitar that my cousin played in prison, floating with the tv in the swimming pool. I'm calling for the owner of the motel, then noticing the bloodstain on the door. I'm reaching for the shoes under the bushes, just in time to hear the sirens sing. I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things is always better than they seem. You know freedom's just a stupid superstition, 'cause life's a highway that you travel blind. It's true that having fun's a terminal addiction. What good is happiness, when it's just a state of mind? For in the prison of perpetual emotion, we're all shackled to the millstone of our dreams. Me, I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi, where things is always better than they seem. Things are always better than they seem. Sincere thanks. These lyrics prove my point, and this is just one of the amazing cuts on the CD. |
| rKokon (Colesville, MD) | Posted: Sep 29, 2006 - 09:35 This man Jim White is a unique, deep, dark artist of melancholy and intrigue in the backwoods, in remote areas that most of us listeners are distant from. For their own benefit, I beg the kneejerk critics who dismiss him as "country" to reconsider. His songs are ballads, complex and hauntingly psychological. Maybe not to the level of those we find collected by Cecil Sharpe or Francis J. Child . . . but I am glad I bought the album. I suggest that people who like the dramas of William Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill especially listen to the whole CD. (All aside from White's amazingly controlled voice, which he deliberately uses for dramatic effect. Also aside from the fact that his songs have tunes and yet are not simple. Also aside from the great command of the instruments, with banjo more delicate than most often heard.) |