It's Willie Nelson's 85th birthday on Apr. 29, which means it's also time for a new album from the country-music legend. Last Man Standing will be released two days earlier.
The title track finds Nelson contemplating about friends who've passed on:
It's getting hard to watch my pals check out
Cuts like a wore out knife
One thing I learned about running the road
Is forever don't apply to life
Waylon and Ray and Merle and old Harlan
Lived just as fast as me
I still got a lot of good friends left
And I wonder who'll the next will be
He follows with this humorous chorus:
I don't want to be the last man standing
Or wait a minute, maybe I do
If you don't mind I'll start a new line
And decide after thinking it through
Nelson finishes with a note of hope:
Maybe we'll meet again
On the other side
We'll pick and sing
Load up the buses and ride
The singer recently took a break from touring to recover from the flu. His next tour begins on Feb. 27 in St. Augustine, FL.
