I agree with what you said about the Jesse James lyric… It is fairly confusing on what his meaning is. I feel like he might have used a bad example to get across what he was saying without further explaining his meaning… But that could be set that way to make people think about the lyrics and to try to make them decipher them… I really don’t know what his goal was there.

I also see where your coming from on the part about the mirror, but depending on how you view what he is saying it could lead you two different ways. You took the view that the mirror is supposed to be himself. This view would make people believe that George Strait, presently, would be nothing like his younger self…. The view I like to think he wants people to take when they hear the lyric is that he is actually looking at himself in the mirror and he looks nothing like his younger self, but he still is the same person at heart which I feel makes much more sense with the flow of the song.

As for the song itself… I really enjoy it. It makes for a good tune to listen to, and it makes me like George Strait even more

Strait means he is still trying to do the same even though he’s had more success in his field than almost anybody – the same as Jesse James.

Or at least that’s my humble opinion on the metaphor. And I think it’s a great song too.

That does not conflict with the assertion that the mirror doesn’t show the whole truth. The mirror shows an old man.

He doesn’t say, “I still ‘look’ 25.”

Incredibly simple song, shows how good simple can be. Try to write one so simple and have it turn out this good. Chorus progression never changes, no bridge. Doesn’t need it. I give it 5 stars. I’m a serious songwriter and I only wish I would have written it; it’s my life in a song. And the production is fabulous, like all of his songs are.

No kidding, this song gives me goosebumps. Works for me; maybe it’s just because I am a songwriter. I have even written a song or two with the word Troubadour in it.

It’s funny, I find myself wanting to “take up” for you guys everytime someone comes on here and makes the whole “opinion and a keyboard” type of comment. As a fan that is somewhat sour on the mainstream Nashville product (not all of it, mind you), it is the talent and perspective of Brady, Brody, Ben, Matt and yourself that make me take a release from RF, Lady A, Jessica Simpson, Carrie, Talyor,Toby K., etc…more seriously than I might typically. I think the mix of news and objective commentary with serious attention to detail, that is a priority on the 9513 is important and severely absent in todays Country Music media.