Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on.
I love this song. It opens full of a 17-year old’s drive and hope and energy, but quickly turns to melancholy and a just a tinge of desperation …
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Sometimes, we all feel that we’re running on empty.
Here’s Jackson Browne at the 2004 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame Inductions…
And, more youthfully, on the BBC in 197. David Lindley’s lap steel here is superb…
Running on Empty is the opening (and title) track of Jackson Browne’s 1977 album. Maybe the ultimate road album, the album was recorded on stage, on the tour bus and in hotel rooms.
