Melonie Cannon is back with an impressive new CD, AND THE WHEELS TURN now a… Read Full Bio ↴Melonie Cannon is back with an impressive new CD, AND THE WHEELS TURN now available on Rural Rhythm Records. This album is the perfect vehicle for Melonie’s pure and powerful voice to shine as she moves through a variety of hand picked songs that showcase her soulful down home vocal style including the up-tempo, fun and liberating first single, “I Call It Gone.” Other album highlights include the passionate and reflective “Cactus In A Coffee Can”, “I’ve Seen Enough of What’s Behind Me” written by Ronnie Bowman and Tammy Rogers King, and “Mary Magdalene (Why You Cryin’), co-written by Melonie Cannon, Marla Cannon-Goodman and Buddy Cannon.

Also included is “Back to Earth” the beautiful duet performed with and written by country legend Willie Nelson. “Melonie Cannon is one of the best singers I know. Her new bluegrass album is fantastic. I love her voice anyway, but singing with a great bluegrass band was a good idea. They blend well together. The fact that I got to sing with her on a song I wrote makes it even better. Go Melonie,” said Willie.

The album is backed by an impressive list of musicians that reads like a “Who’s Who” from the Bluegrass & Acoustic music world including: Dan Tyminski, Adam Steffey, Tim Stafford, Randy Kohrs, Aubrey Haynie, Wyatt Rice, Jody King, Barry Bales, Deanie Richardson, and background vocals by Ronnie Bowman, Garnet Imes Bowman, Sonya Isaacs and more. Dan Tyminski stated, “Melonie Cannon’s heartfelt vocals will make you want to listen to her songs again and again.”

Raised in the wings of the Grand Ole Opry, Melonie mingled as a young girl with the royalty of country music. She knew them through her father, songwriter and producer Buddy Cannon, a giant himself in Nashville, "Melonie's voice is a gift, not just to her but to everyone who hears her sing. There are those who are great technical singers and then there are those whose voices transport a listener from where they are into the heart of the song. Melonie's voice lives there." She was just fourteen when she sang on her first recording session and since then has appeared on many major artist albums including: Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Sammy Kershaw, John Michael Montgomery, and many more.

Melonie’s impressive debut solo album in 2004 received a very warm welcome by the media, radio, her peers and especially bluegrass and country music fans. AND THE WHEELS TURN again for MELONIE CANNON as she clearly establishes herself as new important emerging artist out from the shadows of those major artists that have known what some are now just discovering – MELONIE CANNON has arrived!

NOTHING TO LOSE
Melonie Cannon Lyrics

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Well, I'm sitting on the bus
Rolling down through Georgia
Don't know where I'm going
And I don't care what's new
I've got nothing to lose

Well, I've had no sleep
Going on three days

Smoked my last cigarette
Somewhere near Atlanta
It?s true, I've got nothing to lose

Nothing to lose since I've lost you
Feeling all alone
Used to have it all and now my heart is gone
It?s true, I've got nothing to lose

Well, we're coming up on Macon
Gonna rest here a spell
Making idle conversation
With a stranger without you
I've got nothing to lose

Nothing to lose since I've lost you
Feeling all alone
Used to have it all and now my heart is gone
It?s true, I've got nothing to lose

Ooh, nothing to lose
Ooh, since I lost you

You left me with no worry
You left with no cares
And you took my whole life with you
And you left me standing there
It?s true, I've got nothing to lose

Nothing to lose since I've lost you
Feeling all alone
Used to have it all and now my heart is gone
It?s true, I've got nothing to lose

Yes, it?s true
I've got nothing to lose

I've got nothing, nothing left to lose
I've got nothing, nothing left to lose
I've got nothing, nothing left to lose
I've got nothing, nothing left to lose

Nothing left to lose

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Melonie Cannon's "Nothing to Lose" depict the raw and painful emotions of someone who has lost everything they held dear. As the song begins, the singer is on a bus headed to an unknown destination. She is completely indifferent to where she's going because she feels as though she has nothing left to lose. The somber tone of the lyrics is conveyed by the series of depressing events that have recently occurred in the singer's life. She hasn't slept in three days and is down to her last cigarette. This sense of isolation is emphasized further when the singer reveals that she used to have everything but has lost it all now, including her heart.

The chorus really brings the melancholic theme of the song home. The singer has nothing since losing her significant other. She is all alone and has "nothing to lose" since the most important thing in her life has already been taken away from her. With each repetition of the chorus, the listener is left feeling more and more empathy for the singer who's lost everything.

The song concludes on a similarly sobering note, with the singer acknowledging that she's left with nothing now that her partner is gone. She's left with no cares and no worries, but those things aren't a consolation for the devastation she's experienced. The "nothing left to lose" refrain serves as the final testament to the hopelessness that the singer feels.

Line by Line Meaning

Well, I'm sitting on the bus
I'm physically present on a moving bus

Rolling down through Georgia
The bus is traveling through the state of Georgia

Don't know where I'm going
I'm unsure of my destination

And I don't care what's new
I'm indifferent to anything that may happen during the trip

I've got nothing to lose
I have no personal attachments or belongings

Well, I've had no sleep
I haven't been able to sleep

Going on three days
This sleeplessness has lasted for three days

Smoked my last cigarette
I don't have any more cigarettes

Somewhere near Atlanta
I'm unsure of the exact location where I ran out of cigarettes

It?s true, I've got nothing to lose
I'm reiterating the fact that I'm travel-bound without any attachments

Nothing to lose since I've lost you
You were what I had to lose, but now that you're gone, I have nothing left