Jackson Browne - The Load-Out // Stay (2018 Remaster)

[@IntoTheFire2025]

*00:00** The Load-Out // **05:35** Stay // **08:59** [Repeat]*
*"The Load-Out"*
*Now the seats are all empty*
*Let the roadies take the stage*
*Pack it up and tear it down*
*They're the first to come and last to leave*
*Working for that minimum wage*
*They'll set it up in another town*
*Tonight the people were so fine*
*They waited there in line*
*And when they got up on their feet they made the show*
*And that was sweet...*
*But I can hear the sound*
*Of slamming doors and folding chairs*
*And that's a sound they'll never know*
*Now roll them cases out and lift them amps*
*Haul them trusses down and get'em up them ramps*
*'Cause when it comes to moving me*
*You know you guys are the champs*
*But when that last guitar's been packed away*
*You know that I still want to play*
*So just make sure you got it all set to go*
*Before you come for my piano*
*But the band's on the bus*
*And they're waiting to go*
*We've got to drive all night and do a show in Chicago*
*or Detroit, I don't know*
*We do so many shows in a row*
*And these towns all look the same*
*We just pass the time in our hotel rooms*
*And wander 'round backstage*
*Till those lights come up and we hear that crowd*
*And we remember why we came*
*Now we got country and western on the bus*
*R and B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo*
*We've got rural scenes & magazines*
*We've got truckers on the CB*
*We've got Richard Pryor on the video*
*We got time to think of the ones we love*
*While the miles roll away*
*But the only time that seems too short*
*Is the time that we get to play*
*People you've got the power over what we do*
*You can sit there and wait*
*Or you can pull us through*
*Come along, sing the song*
*You know that you can't go wrong*
*'Cause when that morning sun comes beating down*
*You're going to wake up in your town*
*But we'll be scheduled to appear*
*A thousand miles away from here*
*"Stay"*
*People stay just a little bit longer*
*We want to play just a little bit longer*
*Now the promoter don't mind*
*And the union don't mind*
*If we take a little time*
*And we leave it all behind and sing*
*One more song...*
*(Oh won't you stay just a little bit longer)*
*(Please please please say you will, say you will)*
*(Oh won't you stay just a little bit longer)*
*(Oh please please stay just a little bit longer)*
*Now the promoter don't mind*
*And the roadies don't mind*
*If we take a little time*
*And we leave it all behind and sing*
*One more song...*

[@as_gpe]

thanks !

[@carolineheincz6594]

I was there at the concerts with Jackson Browne in 2023 and 2024 at the Hartford healthcare amphitheatre in Bridgeport, CT. Had the time of my life with my husband.

[@rodolpheschall]

Remembering my coast to coast hitch hiking across Canada & the US back in 1980,Carter ,the hostage crisis and a beer strike in Canada...Greetings from France!

[@C.E.K.]

If their ever was such a thing as a "classic" this comes close as one can get!!

[@bowtangey6830]

Love this evocative song.

[@MIGUELANGEL-vc8uo]

Cuando se me concede el mérito de, más que escuchar, sentir con todo mi ser está preciosa canción mi corazón renace con la esperanza de ver, algún día, una Humanidad hermanada y unida; muy, muy unida.

[@ArnelQuejada-uk3tk]

Elegant..

[@indiaindomavel7428]

*_Bom dia! Meu like._* 👉👍

[@IntoTheFire2025]

*Boa tarde, Lena. Valeu!!*

[@annamosier1950]

a.
am 62 too old to be a roadie but would like to be