TEAR MY STILLHOUSE DOWN  INTRO:              Put no stone at my head   No flowers on my tomb No gold plated sign    In a marbled pillered room The one thing I want   When they lay me in the ground When I die      Tear my stillhouse down Oh Tear my stillhouse down  Let it go to rust Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place  Where I made that evil stuff For all my time and money  No profit did I see That old copper kettle was the death of me    When I was a child   Way back in the hills I laughed at the men  Who tended those stills But that old mountian shine  It caught me somehow When I die    Tear my stillhouse down Oh Tear my stillhouse down  Let it go to rust Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place  Where I made that evil stuff For all my time and money  No profit did I see That old copper kettle was the death of me   [INST] AS VERSE                                            Oh Tell all your children  That Hell ain’t no dream ’Cause Satan he lives   In my whiskey machine And in my time of dying  I know where I’m bound When I die   Tear my stillhouse down Oh Tear my stillhouse down  Let it go to rust Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place  Where I made that evil stuff For all my time and money  No profit did I see That old copper kettle was the death of me    [OUTRO]                                    That old copper kettle was the death of me        

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À propos de la chanson

Cette chanson évoque le désir profond de détruire les traces d'une vie marquée par des choix regrettables. Le narrateur ne veut pas d'hommage matériel ou de souvenir, mais souhaite plutôt que l'endroit où il a fabriqué son alcool, symbole de son absence de prospérité et de souffrance, soit rasé. Il admet, avec une certaine tristesse, que cet artéfact du passé a été sa perdition, et il met en garde les générations futures sur le danger des désirs matériels et des illusions. Le thème central tourne autour de la quête de rédemption et de la prise de conscience des conséquences de ses actes.