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Love, Tom

They say you write aboutwhat you know, so write about your home

[ENGINE STOPS] They say you write about
what you know, so write about your home

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They say you write about what you know,
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so write about your home.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:03
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Sandbox Productions,Sony Music Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Based on Douglas' acceptance speech given at the 2014 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he shares personal anecdotes as the backstory for his most famous songs.
I'm gonna tell you about my parents, - Love, Tom 00:07
I'm gonna tell you about my parents,
My father was a steel salesman - Love, Tom 00:09
My father was a steel salesman
A friend introduced him to a beautiful brunette bank teller. - Love, Tom 00:06
A friend introduced him to a beautiful brunette bank teller.
She wore the fragrance of roses - Love, Tom 00:08
She wore the fragrance of roses
Stephen Sondheim, the great Broadway composer, - Love, Tom 00:06
Stephen Sondheim, the great Broadway composer,
So load up your lyrics with sight, sound, - Love, Tom 00:10
So load up your lyrics with sight, sound,
My parents married after a brief courtship in 1945. - Love, Tom 00:07
My parents married after a brief courtship in 1945.
And they say songs and stories are kinda like onions. - Love, Tom 00:06
And they say songs and stories are kinda like onions.
Her first husband, a young Navy pilot, - Love, Tom 00:14
Her first husband, a young Navy pilot,
They say that we should all cry about once a week, - Love, Tom 00:10
They say that we should all cry about once a week,
♪ I pulled in at the shopping center - Love, Tom 00:08
♪ I pulled in at the shopping center
♪ Like ice cream melting they embraced - Love, Tom 00:35
♪ Like ice cream melting they embraced
♪ I don't know why they say grown men don't cry - Love, Tom 00:07
♪ I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
♪ I am sitting here with my kids and my wife - Love, Tom 00:21
♪ I am sitting here with my kids and my wife
♪ And everything weighing on my mind - Love, Tom 00:13
♪ And everything weighing on my mind
My family and I go roller skating - Love, Tom 00:10
My family and I go roller skating
My mother takes him to the doctor's office - Love, Tom 00:09
My mother takes him to the doctor's office
And he gamed the system and he needed more - Love, Tom 00:09
And he gamed the system and he needed more
And he had to go to a sanatorium, - Love, Tom 00:06
And he had to go to a sanatorium,
My mother covered for him with his bosses - Love, Tom 00:09
My mother covered for him with his bosses