You just strap on that guitar
And you can make yourself a star
And look at everything
With a jaded nonchalance
You’ve got money, you’ve got fame
You’ve got coast-to-coast acclaim
You’ve got everything
That a man could ever want
Everything
The greatest two-minute song ever.
This captures everything I longed for when I was young, except I wanted to be a college football player instead of a musician. I dreamed of what it would be like to make WVU's team and fancied that it would make that beautiful girl I dreamed of want me. It would have been so perfect, but it was just.. barely....out of reach. But I thought if it could only happen, it would be the most blissful feeling imaginable. This song captured that feeling perfectly.
Carmen says he wanted this song to have the feel of a 19th-century Stephen Foster song, because the next song on his first album in 1975, "No Hard Feelings" was meant to slam the music business as being slavery, relating to his days with the Raspberries.
I had this album and I dedicated this song to a good friend of mine who did have everything at the time and then he got addicted to gambling and it ended up costing him everything including his life but at the time I dedicated this song to him on one of my master tapes he did have Everything thanks for posting this great short song