"Whiskey River take my Mind, don't let her memory torture me"

We have all been heartbroken at one time or another. That crazy girl or that asshole guy have all hurt our most feelings at one time or another and we all have own way of dealing with it. For describing the man in this song "Whiskey River take my mind, Don't let her memory torture me"; Alcoholism.
This bitter lyric is by an American Singer Singer Writer best known for his outlaw persona and his advocacy of smoking marijuana Willie Nelson. The song "Whiskey River" is off his 1973 album release Shotgun Willie. Which was a major commercial success for Nelson. Willie Nelson was living in his prime outlaw stage and gaining popularity not only with the rowdy country crowd but fans in the rock and roll elements as well. Willie Nelson had many hardships in his life and I think he's trying to convey some of his own personal demons.
A woman that has left this man, and all his has in his bottle, whiskey bottle that is. And when he feels it Amber current flowing through his mind and the sour whiskey burning his chest like the pain of his heart. He's drowning in sorrow and the only way he see fit to fix it is drown his emotions in Whiskey. But he still can't get away from her pain.
Myself being a bourbon drinker, I sort of understand this mystic about whiskey and how it's special to heartbreak. You here people having a rough day and all they need is a shot of Whiskey. It calms and heels. As long as you keep it respectable. But this is certainly not what the song is conveying. This man is drunk as a skunk and his heart is whole heavy broken.

"It makes no difference night or day, the shadow never seems to fade away"

This lyric is amazingly sorrowful lyric for anyone whose experienced a break up or the loss of someone close. From a Canadian country, folk, rhythm and blues band simply called "The Band". The songs depicts a sad shame filled person whose lost the one they love and it makes no differences what happens in their life, the pain still feels the same. So when the man says "It makes no difference, night or day, the shadow never seems to fade away" He's says that no matter what happens, it can be night or day, rain or shine, cold or warm, the shadow, Which is a metaphor for the pain he feels never can go away. His pain and anguish will remain.
To me the line has deep feeling, coming from the heart of someone who has felt this pain before, much like we all have. I've experienced a few running their course break up's and I've too felt the feelings this person has felt when they've lost the one thing that makes there night and day. The person who is their shadow, the person that is there life, and no matter what happens, we all can't seem to make that feeling of stone cold heart break go away.

"Loaded Questions in a Automatic World"

This lyric is one of my favorites, by a highly success indie rock band from Louisville, Kentucky called My Morning Jacket. The song "Dancefloors" is the second song off there 3rd studio album called "It Still Moves". The line loaded questions in an automatic world makes me think of how technology is taking over our world. Everything from ordering pizza to robot like cars are becoming automated making human life easier. Mobile phones you can not only call your mother, but email, text, send pictures, surf the internet, play games,organize your days with calenders, convert measurements and level anything. Making human interaction not a necessary part of life anymore. To fight this growing social catastrophe, humans need to interact, humans still need to still ask why. I think no matter how computers and devices make thinking easier for us, we still have to keep our minds and teach ourselves more than these materialistic devices can teach us.