
Warren Haynes
Season 5 Episode 9 | 24m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Singer/songwriter Haynes is best known for his landmark work with the Allman Brothers Band.
Singer/songwriter Haynes is best known for his landmark work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the Jam Band Gov't Mule. Haynes is famous for musical associations performing and touring with members of the Grateful Dead.
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Warren Haynes
Season 5 Episode 9 | 24m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Singer/songwriter Haynes is best known for his landmark work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the Jam Band Gov't Mule. Haynes is famous for musical associations performing and touring with members of the Grateful Dead.
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This time welcoming, Warren Haynes.
♪ I'm gon' keep on holdin' on ♪ ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ - It's deep down sound in The Caverns.
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[cheering and applauding] [electric guitar playing] ♪ How you doing this evening?
♪ [audience cheering] [gentle electric guitar] ♪ Oh, somebody help me now ♪ ♪ Won't you tell me please ♪ [gentle electric guitar] ♪ Where can I find a real, real love ♪ ♪ Don't I have it comin' to me ♪ ♪ I searched to find the good things ♪ ♪ This life can give to you ♪ ♪ Was never satisfied with what it all came down to ♪ ♪ Seems money is the main road to get you where you wanna go ♪ ♪ But if somewhere along the way, ♪ Your money runs low ♪ ♪ Nobody wants to know you ♪ ♪ Oh, somebody help me now ♪ ♪ Won't you tell me please ♪ ♪ Where can I find a real, real love ♪ ♪ Don't I have it comin' to me ♪ ♪ Sailin' ships and worldly trips to islands of paradise ♪ ♪ Fine cars and shinin' stars that will love you for a price ♪ ♪ But it don't mean anything at the end of the day ♪ ♪ People, won't you hear me now when I say ♪ ♪ That for some real love, I'd trade it all away ♪ [gentle electric guitar] ♪ Open up your arms and save me ♪ ♪ I'd do the same for you ♪ ♪ The world outside is so crazy ♪ ♪ We could find us some shelter from the blues, oh ♪ [gentle electric guitar] [gentle electric guitar] ♪ Say we come into this world with nothin' but our names ♪ ♪ When it's time to go, we leave here just the same ♪ ♪ The only things that matter ♪ ♪ Are the ones that live and breathe ♪ ♪ And we keep a little part of them when we leave ♪ ♪ Oh, somebody help me now ♪ ♪ And won't you tell me please ♪ ♪ Where can I find a real, real love ♪ ♪ And don't I have it comin' to me ♪ ♪ Where can I find, baby ♪ ♪ A real love ♪ ♪ Open up your arms and save me ♪ ♪ Real love ♪ ♪ Open up your arms ♪ ♪ Real love ♪ ♪ Open up your arms ♪ ♪ Real love ♪ [gentle electric guitar] [gentle electric guitar] [applause and cheering] [applause and cheering] [gentle electric guitar] ♪ There's a full moon on the fourth of July ♪ ♪ Lighting up a Montauk sky ♪ ♪ Impaling the night like a burning ember ♪ ♪ I ain't felt this way in so long ♪ ♪ I can't remember ♪ ♪ Ain't it good to be alive ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ And to know that we survived ♪ ♪ Came out on the other side ♪ ♪ A little stronger ♪ ♪ Yeah we're stronger ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ I'm gon' sing it to the clouds ♪ ♪ Sing it soft and sing it loud ♪ ♪ I'm gon' make my feelings known ♪ ♪ I'm gon' keep on holding on ♪ ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ Changes coming day by day ♪ ♪ The life we knew has gone away ♪ ♪ But I ain't gonna let it get me down ♪ ♪ Gonna embrace this new life ♪ ♪ That we've found ♪ ♪ Breathe it in like the smell of wine ♪ ♪ Disregard the flaws in the design ♪ ♪ Celebrate and take the time ♪ ♪ To stay a little longer ♪ ♪ Stay a little longer ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ I'm gon' sing it to the clouds ♪ ♪ Sing it soft and sing it loud ♪ ♪ I'm gon' make my feelings known ♪ ♪ I'm gon' keep on holding on ♪ ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ Ain't it good to be alive ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ And to know that we survived ♪ ♪ Came out on the other side ♪ ♪ A little stronger ♪ ♪ Yeah we're stronger ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ I'm gon' sing it to the clouds ♪ ♪ Sing it soft and sing it loud ♪ ♪ I'm gon' make my feelings known ♪ ♪ I'm gon' keep on holding on ♪ ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ To this life as we know it ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ There's a full moon on the fourth of July ♪ ♪ Lighting up a Montauk sky ♪ ♪ Impaling the night like a burning ember ♪ ♪ I ain't felt this way in so long ♪ ♪ I can't remember ♪ [cheering and applause] - How many of you been here before?
[audience cheering] - That's pretty cool.
How many of you came from somewhere else?
[audience cheering] [audience shouting] -West Virginia, I know.
[audience shouting] - West Virginia in the house!
[audience shouting] In the cave.
[chuckles] [audience shouting] [audience shouting] - Thank you.
[happy electric guitar] [happy electric guitar] ♪ World is spinning 'round ♪ ♪ Whirling like a top ♪ ♪ My head is reeling ♪ ♪ Can't seem to make it stop ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ Everybody must go through ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ Why should it be different for me and you ♪ ♪ I need you more than you know ♪ ♪ But I just can't seem to let you know ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ In everything we touch ♪ ♪ Changes ♪ ♪ Sometimes it's just too much ♪ ♪ People come and go ♪ ♪ Strangers in and out ♪ ♪ Of life's revolving doorway ♪ ♪ Getting lost in the fallout ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ Cut deep in our souls ♪ [happy electric guitar] ♪ Enough to make you weary ♪ ♪ Make you lose self-control ♪ ♪ I try so hard to lift you up ♪ ♪ But I keep letting you down ♪ ♪ You tell me you've had enough ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ Pulling life apart ♪ ♪ Changes ♪ ♪ Leave us stranded in the dark ♪ ♪ You say, "Why can't it be the way it used to be."
♪ ♪ I don't know ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ There's a hundred reasons ♪ ♪ But I can't just see them ♪ ♪ In the moment ♪ ♪ Caught up in the moment ♪ ♪ Caught up in the moment ♪ ♪ Caught up in the changes ♪ [mellow electric guitar] [mellow electric guitar] ♪ I need you more than you know ♪ ♪ So much it hurts ♪ ♪ But I just can't seem to let things go ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ Pushing us apart ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ Changes ♪ ♪ Leave us stranded in the dark ♪ ♪ All these changes ♪ ♪ The hand that life has dealt ♪ ♪ Changes ♪ ♪ Feeling like we've never felt ♪ [happy electric guitar] [happy electric guitar] [cheering and applauding] [mellow electric guitar] ♪ I'll need time ♪ ♪ To get you off my mind ♪ ♪ I may sometimes bother you ♪ ♪ Try to be in touch with you ♪ ♪ Even ask too much of you from time to time ♪ ♪ Now and then ♪ ♪ Well, you know I'm gonna need a friend ♪ ♪ 'Til I get used to losin' you ♪ ♪ Let me keep on usin' you ♪ ♪ 'Til I can make it on my own ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ I'll get by ♪ ♪ But no matter how I try ♪ ♪ There'll be times when I might call ♪ ♪ Chances are my tears will fall ♪ ♪ And I'll have no pride at all, from time to time ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ But they say ♪ ♪ There's gonna be a brighter day ♪ ♪ 'Til then let me lean on you ♪ ♪ It's all I mean to do ♪ ♪ 'Til I can make it on my own ♪ ♪ Surely someday I'll wake up ♪ ♪ See the mornin' sun ♪ ♪ Without another lonely night behind me ♪ ♪ Then I'll know I'm over you ♪ ♪ And all my cryin's done ♪ ♪ No more lonely memories can find me ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ 'Til then ♪ ♪ Wll, you know I'm gonna need a friend ♪ ♪ 'Til I get used to losin' you ♪ ♪ Let me keep on usin' you ♪ ♪ 'Til I can make it on my own ♪ [mellow electric guitar] ♪ 'Til I can make it on my own ♪ [mellow electric guitar] [cheering and applauding] - You doin' okay?
Everybody doing okay out there?
[audience cheering] [audience shouting] - I'm singin' in a cave, and there's a bunch of people here listenin', and they're beautiful, and they're payin' attention.
[audience cheering] So I-I'm doing awesome.
[audience cheering] [upbeat electric guitar] [upbeat electric guitar] ♪ And now the gravity of trouble was more than I could bear ♪ ♪ At times my luck was so bad, I had to fold my hands ♪ ♪ Almost lost my soul, rarely I could find my head ♪ ♪ Wake up early in the morning, feeling nearly dead ♪ [upbeat electric guitar] ♪ I was never afraid of danger, took trouble on the chin ♪ ♪ Mountains I have climbed, that have killed a thousand men ♪ ♪ Spent most of my lifetime downtown ♪ ♪ Sleepin' behind the wheel ♪ ♪ Never needed anybody, I was king of the hill ♪ ♪ Oh, when I think about the old days ♪ ♪ Oh, it sends chills up and down my spine ♪ ♪ Well, life ain't what it seems ♪ ♪ On the boulevard of broken dreams ♪ ♪ Guess I opened my eyes in the nick of time ♪ ♪ 'Cause it sure felt like the end of the line ♪ [upbeat electric guitar] [upbeat electric guitar] ♪ No matter how hard I run, I just can't get away ♪ ♪ I try to do my best, but the devil gets in my way ♪ ♪ Spent most of my lifetime downtown ♪ ♪ Sleepin' behind the wheel ♪ ♪ 'Till it all came down to kill or be killed ♪ ♪ Oh, when I think about the old days ♪ ♪ Oh, it sends chills up and down my spine ♪ ♪ Well, life ain't what it seems ♪ ♪ On the boulevard of broken dreams ♪ ♪ Guess I opened my eyes in the nick of time ♪ ♪ 'Cause it sure felt like the end of the line ♪ [upbeat electric guitar] ♪ Just like the end ♪ [upbeat electric guitar] ♪ Whoa, the end of the line ♪ ♪ Just like the end ♪ [upbeat electric guitar] [cheering and applauding] [cheering and applauding] ♪
Warren Haynes Performs "This Life As We Know It"
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Clip: S5 Ep9 | 4m 12s | Warren Haynes performs his song "This Life As We Know It." (4m 12s)
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