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Time Marches On, 1996
Written by Bobby Braddock
A country observing the coming and going of generations. There's ghosts of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," obviously, from its chronicling of the sweep of history, but also the Stones "Mother's Little Helper" in that it hints at the drug use, psychological problems, and idiosyncratic behavior that go on behind the closed doors of ostensibly proper blue-collar families: "Brother's wearin' beads and he smokes a lot of dope / Mama is depressed, barely makes a sound / Daddy's got a girlfriend in another town." Lawrence wisely resists over-singing the material. His straightforward delivery allows the lyric to do the heavy lifting, while the restrained mid-'90s country arrangement keeps sentimentality at bay.
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