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20 May 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

“I just wanna go home. I don’t know which road to go. It’s been so long. I just know I didn’t used to wake up feeling this way.”

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20 May 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Sounds good. [inaudible 02:02:23]. If it weren’t for my old dogs and the good Lord. They’d have me strung up in the psych ward. ‘Cause every day living in this new world is one too many days to me. Son, we’re on the brink of the next world war. And I don’t think nobody’s praying no more. And I ain’t saying I know it for sure. I’m just down on my knees begging, Lord, take me home. I just wanna go home. I don’t know which road to go. It’s been so long. I just know I didn’t used to wake up feeling this way. Cussing myself every damn day. People have really gone and lost their way. They all just do what the TVs say. I wanna go home. Four generations farming the ground. Grandson sells it to a man from out of town. And two weeks later, the trees go down. Only got concrete growing around. And I wanna go home. I wanna go home. I don’t know which road to go. It’s been so long. I just know I didn’t used to wake up feeling this way. Cussing myself every damn day. There’s always some kind of bill to pay. People just doing what the rich man say. I wanna go home. But if it weren’t for my old dogs and the good Lord. Well, they’d have me strung up in the psych ward. That’s probably one of the first, I don’t know, it’s not the first song I wrote, but one of them.…

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