Introduction
When the world thinks of Willie Nelson, the image that often comes to mind is the untamed outlaw, the man with braids in his hair, a guitar worn thin by decades of truth-telling, and a voice that sounds like Texas dust carried on the wind. But in his haunting ballad “Something You Get Through,” Nelson does the unthinkable—he strips himself bare, laying out grief in its rawest form, and in doing so, he leaves listeners shaken, vulnerable, and unable to turn away.
This is not a song about moving on. It is a song about learning to live with wounds that never close. Nelson whispers the words like a confession, a trembling prayer for anyone who has ever lost someone they can never replace. The shock lies not in volume or anger but in silence—the terrifying stillness of pain that lingers long after the funeral flowers have wilted. Few artists dare to touch this territory without drowning in sentimentality, but Willie Nelson, at 80 years old, delivers it with such brutal honesty that it feels less like music and more like truth itself.
“Something You Get Through” is a reminder that grief doesn’t vanish—it becomes a companion. Nelson doesn’t offer cheap comfort. He doesn’t tell us to move on. Instead, he tells us the secret nobody wants to admit: you never really do. You just learn to live alongside the emptiness.
For decades, Nelson has been the voice of rebellion, humor, and heartbreak. But here, he becomes something else entirely: the preacher of reality, the prophet of pain, the man who dares to say what others won’t. In a world addicted to distraction, Willie Nelson forces us to look grief in the eye—and he does it with a quietness more shocking than any scream.
This isn’t just a song. It’s a reckoning.
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Lyrics
When you lose the one you love
You think your world has ended
You think your world will be a waste of life
Without them in it
You feel there’s no way to go on
Life is just a sad, sad song
But love is bigger than us all
The end is not the end at all
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not ours to be taken
It’s just a thing we get to do
Life goes on and on
And when it’s gone
It lives in someone new
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not ours to be taken
It’s a thing we get to do
Life goes on and on
And when it’s gone
It lives in someone new
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
