John Prine recently scored his first number one song on the Billboard charts with “I Remember Everything.” Prine wrote the song with Pat McLaughlin. And he recorded it in his living room, his final song before he died of complications from Covid-19 on April 7, 2020.
Prine fans will not be surprised that he is still capable of bringing a smile and a tear to our eyes even after he passed away.
The song is about missing someone (“How I miss you in the morning light /
Like roses miss the dew”). But it also functions as someone looking back on life.
I’ve been down this road before,
Alone as I can be;
Careful not to let my past,
Go sneaking up on me;
Got no future in my happiness,
Though regrets are very few;
Sometimes a little tenderness,
Was the best that I could do.
Check out the video below of John Prine singing “I Remember Everything” in his living room.
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