(In his memoir published three years earlier, Jones admitted that he sometimes had a glass of wine before dinner and that he still drank beer occasionally but insisted, "I don't squirm in my seat, fighting the urge for another drink" and speculated, ".perhaps I'm not a true alcoholic in the modern sense of the word. He was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was released two weeks later. The album was released on June 22, 1999, on the Asylum label.Ĭold Hard Truth was released only three months after Jones was involved in a drunk driving incident when he crashed his sport utility vehicle near his home. ![]() So, as long as you don’t change your mind or let your womanly fear interfere with your courage, you’ll be free from the current situation which threatens to force you into sin.Cold Hard Truth is the 56th studio album by American country music singer George Jones. That night, Romeo will take you with him to Mantua. He’ll come here, and we’ll keep a watch over you as you wake. Meanwhile, before you wake up, I’ll send word to Romeo of our plan. Then, as is the tradition of our city, you’ll be dressed in your best clothes and placed on an uncovered funeral bier, and carried to the Capulet tomb that holds all of your dead relatives. So when the bridegroom comes to wake you from your bed in the morning, he will think that you are dead. You’ll remain in this simulation of death for forty-two hours, and then you’ll wake as if from a pleasant sleep. Your body will lose control over its own movement, and will become stiff as that of a corpse. The red of your lips and cheeks will fade to a pale ashen color, and your eyelids will close just as if you were dead. Your body will go cold, and you’ll stop breathing. A cold, sleepy feeling will then run through your veins, and your pulse will cease. Don’t let the Nurse sleep in your bedroom. ![]() Tomorrow night make sure that you go to sleep alone. Go home, be cheerful, and agree to marry Paris. And this shall free thee from this present shame, If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, Abate thy valor in the acting it.īe strong, then. In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, And hither shall he come, and he and I Will watch thy waking, and that very night Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. Then, as the manner of our country is, In thy best robes uncovered on the bier Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. Each part, deprived of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall Like death when he shuts up the day of life. ![]() No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distillèd liquor drink thou off, When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease. Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
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