Hayes Carll: “This is why your whole world is on fire…why you can’t drink from your own springs.”

Dear Mr. Carll,

I love this song (and the pop up art). It sums up my frac’d life and that of many others. I had not heard “Nice Things” before. A friend sent it to me tonight:

“Hey Jess, I heard this song and thought of you. Hayes Carll is my new favorite country folk musician. Enjoy”

Nice Things 3:48 Min. by Hayes Carll, Oct 29, 2021Fabulous art work!

Nice Things
Hayes Carll

When God came down to Earth
To enjoy what She’d created
Took a fishing trip to Georgia
To see what She could see
Cast out a holy line
And thought She’d hooked a big one
Reeled in an oil barrel
And said, “Oh my me!”

This is why your whole world is on fire
This is why you can’t drink from your own springs
This is why
This is why
This is why, why, why
This is why y’all can’t have nice things

So She walked back to the highway
Flagged down a passing stranger
An old man with a kind streak
Who offered Her a toke
And just as She was partakin’
The blue lights started flashing
As they slipped the handcuffs on Her
She thought this must be a joke

This is why y’all are all strung out to Christmas
This is why I left you all them seeds
This is why
This is why
This is why, why, why
This is why y’all can’t have nice things

So She walked out of the jail
With a rap sheet and no money
Went looking for a coffee
And passed by an angry mob
They were yelling about people
Who should suffer pain eternal
She asked one for a dollar
And they said, “Sinner, get a job”

This is why (This is why) I blessed you with compassion
This is why (This is why) I gave you empathy
This is why (This is why) I said to love your neighbor
This is why (This is why) pills don’t grow on trees
This is why (This is why) I gave you all salvation
This is why (This is why) angels lose their wings
This is why
This is why
This is why, why, why
This is why y’all can’t have nice things
Oh, this is why y’all can’t have nice things

Written by: Hayes Carll, John Osborne, Thomas Osborne

Album: You Get It All, Released: 2021

Lyrics provided by Musixmatch

One of the comments to the youtube:

@treywest268:

Great singing, great songwriting, great backing band, great sound production!!!
My only complaint is a credit should be offered to the one who made the great art for this video.

Refer also to:

2023: Part 2: Private land; Frac’ers Garbage Can. Another Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx) Sentron LD 3000 oil barrel on Rosebud River coulee, Ernst property.

No, it’s not the same barrel as polluted my land in 2021. It’s another one – an Encana/Ovintiv gift that keeps on abusing, now under the run-away-from-clean-up name, Lynx.

2021: Private land; Frac’ers Garbage Can. Sentron LD 3000 oil barrel on Rosebud River coulee, Ernst property; Matching barrels at Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx) 7-13 Compressor station.