Let's see how hard we can rock softly. Check this out.
[Plays "City Love"]
I gotta tell you, it was really nice to wake up and be in your city this morning. It was refreshing. I know this place, kind of, you know? Thanks to you guys, bringing me back. Next thing you know I got a record deal.
This is a song I wish I wrote again. Cause I didn't get it all out. So I find myself sitting down to pen a tune, and I go, oh. Shit, it's just "Something's Missing" again.
[Plays "Something's Missing"]
You guys having a good time so far? This ain't no Sunday night, that's for sure. I'll be signing late-for-work passes after the show, so stay after. We're hanging out after this, right?
This is a song about people being affected by stuff that's got nothing to do with you, even though you take it on as your personal challenge to fix people. Cause everybody loves somebody in repair. Everybody loves a fixer-upper, you know. You might not want to admit it. But women, that's what makes me like you. I mean, that's what makes me appreciate you, but that's what makes me similar to you, at the same time. HOMONYMS!
This is about that.
[Plays "Daughters"]
I'm telling you, this is the truth, I cannot, but also will not, half-ass it in Austin! It's impossible. Maybe it's cause there's so much music around me, I know if I start to suck, someone else will just take my job. Right off the stage, right now.
I don't know if you know this, but this is what I dreamed about playing. I was like 14, 15, a little punk-ass kid, actually had the balls to ask his mom for five thousand dollars and the permission to drop out of high school. To come to Austin and sleep on pool tables. I'm happy to report that I don't have a pool table for a Sleep Number. Never had to do it. By the way, a witty reference to a Sleep Number is a risky proposition, because most people don't get a Sleep Number joke. I think they're hilarious. You know, like, at the mall, what's your Sleep Number? Yeah, it doesn't work everywhere.
The reason I can talk out of my ass for as long as I want to in this moment is because the setlist says that "My Stupid Mouth" is next.
[Plays "My Stupid Mouth"]
This is a song about not giving up even when you should. It's about that oh-so-precious and valuable fourteenth chance. That fourteenth chance when things really turn around for ya. And you realize, oh, it was just me. I was the problem.
I sound like I have a chip on my shoulder tonight, but I don't. I'm just in the song. There's nothing going on. My cell phone hasn't rung in like a week. Only time my cell phone rings is to tell me that I need to recharge it.
[Plays "Back to You"]
Anybody who's ever told somebody not to ever call them again, and then looked the next time the phone rang to see if it was them? This song is for you.
[Plays "Wheel"]