{"id":3294,"date":"2010-12-01T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T22:07:57","slug":"my-better-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3294","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Braddock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>My Better Half<\/h6>\n<p><em>I kick my shoe off, I pull my sock off, and take my pant off<br \/>\nThen I find my pajama and put it on<br \/>\nThen I crawl into the bed and cry my eye out<br \/>\nNow that my better half is gone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I just lay there, and as I lay there, my arm feels so empty<br \/>\nAnd my lip longs to kiss her all night long<br \/>\nIf I had the gut I\u2019d blow my brain out<br \/>\nNow that my better half is gone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was a whole man when I was with her<br \/>\nNow I\u2019m a plier, I\u2019m a scissor<br \/>\nI\u2019m half this, half that<br \/>\nHalf slow, half fast<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve got the blue, and I\u2019m up to my elbow in heartache<br \/>\nNow that my better half is gone<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2540\">Bobby Braddock<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>\u201cUncut Gems\u201d is a series of unreleased song lyrics, recipes, notes, and more by prominent Nashville songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Braddock moved to Nashville at the age of twenty-four in 1964.\u00a0\u00a0His songs, ranging from \u201cD-I-V-O-R-C-E\u201d\u00a0to \u201cTime Marches On,\u201d\u00a0from \u201cGolden Ring\u201d\u00a0to \u201cPeople Are Crazy,\u201d\u00a0have defined and redefined the aesthetics of the country lyric.\u00a0Braddock, the only man living to have written hit country songs across six decades, wrote my favorite country song, \u201cHe Stopped Loving Her Today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I first met Bobby Braddock in the winter of 1983, in the lobby of Tree when the building looked something like a strange Spanish Mission.\u00a0\u00a0He edited \u201cReckless Night,\u201d the first song I ever had recorded.\u00a0\u00a0He advised me to repeat the two great lines of my chorus and ditch the filler.\u00a0\u00a0It was very good advice.\u00a0\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<em>Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter&#8217;s Youth in Old Florida<\/em>,<em> <\/em>was published by LSU Press in 2007.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>Alice Randall<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Better Half I kick my shoe off, I pull my sock off, and take my pant off Then I find my pajama and put it on Then I crawl into the bed and cry my eye out Now that my better half is gone I just lay there, and as I lay there, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-R8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11723,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}