This is probably Isbell's best song. It might take second place against Outfit, but I can't think of better than those two. If We Were Vampires is probably third, just because of how fucking depressing it is.
Children of Children and Speed Trap Town fit on the short list as well to me ...
"Well up 'til now my plan went all right, until we tried to put it all together one night, and thats when we realized something was definitely wrong"
-Cash
The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves, who keeps in the background the part he has played, perhaps unconsciously, in selecting and grouping them.
- Marshall
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure
- TS Elliot
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity
-Burckhardt