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Songs: On The Red River, Searching For A Light, Forgiving You, Be Here, Heaven Passing Through, The Devil Plies His Trade (Sn 6 Ep 3), A Lie Agreed Upon, Ruby Ann, What Was Advertised, Leaving Town (Woody Guthrie Festival), Nothing You Can Do, Gin, Smoke, Lies, Before The Devil Knows We're Dead, Southeastern Son, Blue Star, Call A Spade a Spade, Morgan Street, Gone Gone Gone, Good Lord Lorrie, Empty As A Drum, Wrecked, Quit While I'm Ahead, The Bird Hunters, The Mercury, Down Here, Time of Day, Ringing in the Year, A Little Song, Long Drive Home, Easton & Main, 7 Oaks, Doreen, Fall out of Love, Bossier City, The Housefire, Something to Hold on To, The Winding Stair Mountain Blues, Unrung, A Tornado Warning, Pay No Rent, The Hard Way, Old Time Feeling (Like Before), Pipe Bomb Dream, Oklahoma Stars, Sunday Morning Paper, Come November, Bossier City, Solid Ground, Easton & Main, The Shape, Austin To Ashes, Angola, Rollin On, Three Rivers Song, Every Girl, 7 & 7, 1968, Down on Washington, Kansas City Southern, Whole Damn Town, Leaving & Lonely, The Funeral, Diamonds & Gasoline, Shreveport, Evangeline, Long Hot Summer Day, Mean Old Sun, Brought Me, Lucille, Chipping Mill, The Rut, A Cat in the Rain, Black Sky, East Side Love Song (Bottoms Up), Three More Days, Won't You Give Me One More Chance
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Well Robbie's got a brand new girlfriend. She's got a script for pills. These here man they're the good ones. Counting those ten dollar bills. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. He's got a thousand dollars. That's more than the saw mills paying. Lucy she's at her mamas. But he'll lose it all today He's got a thousand dollars. That's just some gasoline. You know that boy well he can gamble. Like you ain't never seen. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. He's pulling down on that lever. Like he's got cash to burn. Barely too proud to beg. I guess that boy will never learn. He's driving back home on sunday. Praying he don't get killed. You know that Lucy's kinda crazy. When she ain't got her pills. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away.
Well, I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up a bourbon stain Now I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can And I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main Well, we drove up to the city On an autumn Saturday night Ah and damn that girl was pretty in the artificial moonlight And I swore she looked right at me Like we were meant to be What's a girl like that gonna wanna have to do with a country boy like me? Well, I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up cheap champagne And I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can And I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main Now I'm back down on a farm Dreaming 'bout those big city lights waken up at dawn Workin' 'til its night, but I'm savin' up my money And this time I'll make her see What a girl like that just might want with a country boy like me Well, I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up a bourbon stain Well, I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can Now I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main
Well, I’m in pretty good shape for the shape I’m in Living in the shadows of all my sins But, hey, we’ve all got our problems And it’s been 21 hours since I’ve heard your voice And me, well, I got no damn choice In the matter, you know that’s true Yeah, leave it all up to you this time The decision is yours baby, it's not mine Even though that’s hard But the ink stain is still on my hand And your number’s too worn off to understand But I wear it, like a battle scar Aww, and I can’t tell, about you and me It’s a little bit too far down, that old road of life to see But I keep an eye out, toward the sky Thinkin' that maybe you just, might be passin’ by And how I wish, that you can hear, me sing Maybe this time my songs just, might mean something So fall on back down to me, fall on back down to me Ah, you’re still an angel, even with that broken wing And I said I got enough gas to make it there Tonight if you want, baby, I don’t care And you said no, no, no, no, that’s ok So instead I just sat here on this couch And I drank it off, that’s what I’m all about At least Lord, that’s what the people say 'Cause we both know I'm just a lost cause A wannabe poet with a cheap guitar, beggin' for applause But I thought I'd be your knight in shining armor And I'd save ya', hell or high water But I won't reach out my hand if you don’t want it No, no, no And I can't tell, about you and me It’s a little bit too far down that old road of life to see But I keep an eye out, toward the sky Thinkin' that maybe you just, might be passing by And how I wish, that you can hear, me sing Maybe this time my songs just, might mean something So fall on back down to me, fall on back down to me Ah, you’re still an angel Ah, you’re still an angel Ah, you’re still an angel Well, even with that broken wing
Well, I was born in Bossier Parish, in Northern Louisian' Just a few miles south of Fillmore, where my daddy owned some land And we were thick as a pair of thieves, my buddy, Jack and me Drinkin' beer and playin' football, fishin' on them creeks Oh, but now my life it seems like some old country song, you know Lord, I just turned 21, and there's no chance of parole And I'm doin' life for murder, in this penitentiary Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of being free We graduated high school, back in '98 We tried to live a clean life, but the clean life didn't pay Then a friend of a friend of a friend of ours, had a way to make ends meet And he gave us a crash course, in southern chemistry Oh, but now my life it seems like some old country song you know Lord, I just turned 21, and there's no chance of parole And I'm doin' life for murder, in this penitentiary Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein' free And then one day it happened, and the wild men got the call And Jackie he'd been talkin', with the local law They stuck him nearly fifty times and dumped him in the creek When the sheriff's found the body, they pointed their bloody hands at me And I got a tattoo on my shoulder, I got a number on my chest Tattoo just says "Haughton", that's the place I love the best, yeah
The wheels keep rolling, miles keep a-comin', man, this road never ends And just when I think I've reached the finish, man That's where I begin And I'm rollin' on Just singing the same damn songs And I'm rollin' on Well, baby I'm almost home And I'm rollin' on I'm rollin' on back to you Baby, I've seen hell and half of, Tennessee And you're all that got me through I've seen the land in a '96 van Ridin' 5 deep And this Chevrolet, well, she's seen better days But you can, say the same for me And I'm rollin' on Just singing the same damn songs And I'm rollin' on Well, baby I'm almost home And I'm rollin' on I'm rollin' on back to you Baby, I've seen hell and half of, Tennessee And you're all that got me through After two flat tires and a hundred red lights and endless empty beers I thought all night and I can't figure out What the hell I'm doing here But I'm rollin' on Just singing the same damn songs And I'm rollin' on Well, baby I'm almost home And I'm rollin' on I'm rollin' on back to you Baby, I've seen hell and half of, Tennessee And you're all that got me through Baby, I've seen hell and Nashville, Tennessee And you're all that got me through
Well she was born in the morning late October San Antone* Aw she's every girl I've ever known Well she was born in the morning late October San Antone Aw she's every girl I've ever known She don't talk about religion she talks about the stones Oh she's every girl I've ever known And her tongue is like the Devil when she tries to concentrate She says she don't want marriage but she still believes in fate And she stands her ground to defiantly but cries when she's alone Oh she's every girl I've ever known Now her voice it is a melody that sings just like a bird Oh she's every song I've ever heard And her heartbeat is a rhythm that commands her every word Aw she's every song I've ever heard She reflects the world in happiness and echos all the pain Her smiles the world of sunrise her cries to make it rain And she hides the truth discretely you'd have to take her word Aw she's every song I've ever heard She's a sober Sunday kitchen conversation with my dad Aw she's every friend I've ever had Well we never failed to cut a trail whenever times were bad Oh she's every friend I've ever had She's a flighty good time buddy in the corner of the bar But she'd fight the Devil for ya just for being who you are And she's the last to cast a stone though she'd love to leave you mad Aw she's every friend I've ever had Well she was born in the morning late October San Antone
Back when you, when you were my darlin I didn't mind to lose a little sleep I didn't mind to do a little walkin Reputation never meant that much to me How do I find that old familiar feeling? The one that carried me so many years ago Fun was dominos and 7-Up and Seagram's Things were simple then just movin nice and slow Ain't it strange? Well, ain't it strange? Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about Well, that old scene is always comin to me I see you standin with your husband and your child And you're a picture of strength, and grace and beauty And me I'm just a fool in a super market aisle Well I, well know hello would surly end up awkward I never had the knack for talkin any way You're not the kind for bending over backwards Smile and turn my shopping cart around and walk away Ain't it strange Well, ain't it strange Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about Well ain't it strange how well I knew you back when I was 17 Lovin you was easy babe but I was just a child And these days you ain't nothin just an interstate daydream Folks were sleepin and we were runnin wild And I still do my share of sleepin on the floor Not sure if anybody knows me anymore Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about Well I had no clue, I'd be the boy who Your momma warned you about
One, Two, Three There ain't a thing in the world to take me back Like a dark-haired girl in a Cadillac On main street of an old forgotten town The sun light shines in fine white lines On weathered stores with open signs They may as well just close 'em down And you look like 1968 or was it '69 When I heard you caught a bullet Well I guess you're doing fine And you speak of revolution Like it's some place that you've been Well you've been a long time gone Good too see you my old friend Oh and now that sun has gone away Replaced instead by silver rays Of moonlight falling on the avenue Oh and I could sleep if you would drive I just can't keep my mind alive And you've got nothing better else to do And we've all been looking for you Like a hobo you walk in Well how the mighty all have fallen How the holy all have sinned Is that the clattering of sabers Or the cool September winds Well you've been a long time gone Good to see you my old friend And there's just two times a day like this You find this kind of blissfulness The sun it sets and rises in the morn And we're shakin hands, I rub my eyes Free up all my alibis Just a blinking like the day that I was born And you look like 1968 or was it '69 When I heard you caught a bullet Well I guess you're doing fine And you speak of revolution Like it's some place that you've been Well you've been a long time gone Good too see you my old friend And when the rounds were fired that April you were on the balcony When ten thousand tear drops hit the ground in Memphis, Tennessee You were a prideful rebel yell among a million marching men And you've been a long time gone Good to see you my old friend Well you've been a long time gone Good to see you my old friend
Well you're standing there* You Say life ain't fair Why don't ya tell me something that I don't know Oh and man I'm sunk Red faced and drunk But there's a reason I stayed up all night and begged you not to go Here I fear we've found ourselves a sticky situation. It's an awkward occupation disregarding right from wrong. And you were down on Washington, dancing like the devil. Oh and I am just a fool, but I have loved you all along Well the everyday, it gets in the way Of all the things, that we could be Don't ya understand, well I'm an honest man But I would steal you in a heartbeat if the choice were up to me Well what happens little baby when I blow this town and ain't nobody like you Got a brand new high and lonesome, It's a bad dream comin' true. Oh what's a poor boy to do Yea well I am just a fool, but I have loved you all along.
Well I was working on the KCS Rail Line Katie was the girl down the street Well I took her to a dance on the Fourth of July Hopin she might fall in love with me Well the band started playing right at nine Firecrackers popped in the sky We danced and we danced Lord I never had a chance I got canned on the 5th of July And we laughed at the moonlight Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems Is the one that I hold in my arms I was playin in the Tommy Knocker Tavern Jenny was the girl at the bar Well I sang every song for her and her alone And kissed her neath the Colorado stars And we laughed at the moonlight Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems Is the one that I hold in my arms Seasons come and change just like the leaves Red oaks in the kai nation wind Well they scatter and they fall Where they land I can't recall Will I ever find my darlin again And we laughed at the moonlight Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems Is the one that I hold in my arms Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems Is the one that I hold in my arms
I can go down town and drink 'til dawn I can sing those sad old country songs Oh, but daylight finds me bored and blue The whole damn town's in love with you Well, the neon signs light up the block It's a livin' breathin' honky-tonk And your hair's wet with the mornin' dew The whole damn town's in love with you The whole damn town's in love with you Now all the cowboys in this bar Oh, and all those fools that play guitar Well, they're well aware that we are through The whole damn town's in love with you Well, the music pours out on the street Just as clean and cool as a cotton sheet Well, they moan the lonesome and feel the blues The whole damn town's in love with you The whole damn town's in love with you Well, your worn-out favorite pair of jeans Oh, I remember everything There were things I'd grown accustomed to The whole damn town's in love with you The whole damn town's in love with you Well, the whole damn town's in love with you The whole damn town's in love with you The whole damn town's in love with you
Urn down the lights And turn up the ac Hold me close When it gets gold Stuck in between Lovin and lonely Stuck in between The lines on the road It might have been the whiskey, might have been the wine Might have been the moonshine in her eyes It might have been bad luck. It might have been love Maybe just a good time It probably was Wake up scared, its 6 in the mornin Reach out to see if you're still there In these motel rooms Theyre always the same scene I remember a time when i still cared It might have been the whiskey, might have been the wine Might have been the moonshine in her eyes It might have been bad luck, It might have been love Maybe just a good time It probably was Catch me when i'm fallin down Catch me when im fallin apart Try to pick myself back up But don't know where to start Turn on the lights Turn off the ac Pack my bags It's time to go Stuck in between Leavin and lonely Stuck in between The lines on the road
Well stage right enter Jimmy, Just a counterfeit James Dean, With a pocket full of delta blues and cheap amphetamine. Her feet up on the dashboard, Like a burned out Betty Paige, And she might have been pretty if she was half her age. But together they were something, Just closing down the bars, Headed down to Oakie City in a slightly stolen car. The folks were decent people, They didn't like they're kind, When the car pulled in the driveway the were staring through the blinds. The preacher in the kithchen, He's eatin apple pie, And momma's in the bedroom she couldn't help but cry. And daddy looked so natural, Like he'd just gone to sleep, And the preacher looked through Jimmy and prayed his soul to keep. Coming home, Coming home, There's nothing like a family to make you feel so damned alone. You should've brought flowers, Should've got daddy's gun, Aint nobody waiting on the prodigal son. Well they pulled out into traffic, Fell in behind the hearse, And that awful empty feeling well it went from bad to worse. The preacher read some scripture, And they put him in the ground, Then everybody loaded up and headed back to town. But Jimmy got his whiskey out, When everyone was gone, Felt he should've said something staring down at the stone. () The men all folded tables, While the ladies cleaned the plates, And the cousins asked about the car locked behind the gate. Jimmy knew his dad's .38, Was in that trunk burried deep, And it would find its rightful owner once his momma wen to sleep. And Jimmy looked at momma, Momma just looked down, She said why's it take a funeral just to bring you back to town?
Undercover And blame it on the season It ain't no kinda reason baby Why come and go Had a Lover She felt as good as trees And you can ask her if its pleasing You can ask the wind to blow And I would buy for you a diamond Or myself some gasoline If I can't afford you darling Then I can't afford to dream And is it time I should be moving? Is it time I settle down? Will I sit still or will I feel the wheels a spinning round? Well I ain't the brightest Bird that ever flew I'm just someone you knew A road you traveled on All the colors They shine and fade away Well they're just like News Years Day They're here and then they're gone And I would buy for you a diamond Or myself some gasoline If I can't afford you darling Then I can't afford to dream And is it time I should be moving? Is it time I settle down? Will I sit still or will I feel the wheels a spinning round? Lord I love you I wish you only knew Well I wish you had a clue I wish you had a clue you know But I'm stuck here in Tulsa With my Oklahoma blues With a pair of concrete shoes That got me sinking pretty low And I would buy for you a diamond Or myself some gasoline If I can't afford you darling Then I can't afford to dream And is it time I should be moving? Is it time I settle down? Will I sit still or will I feel the wheels a spinning round? The wheels a spinning round The wheels A spinning
Well on a greyhound bound for Shreveport I spent too long in my seat We stopped off in a no name town to grab a bite to eat And the ceiling fans they hung above a screened in patio Crawfish hotter than a chimney fire the beer was cheap and cold And the bar maid smiled that kind of smile that knocked me off my stool Said hang around I'll show you things they don't teach in school Across the way an old blues man was playing on the street Well he moaned just like a black and tan I found myself a seat He sang Lord he lives above us and the devil sleeps beneath He growled it mean and low between his three or four gold teeth And I wish I was in Shreveport just a gambling like a fool Yeah you can learn some things down there they don't teach in school Well I dreamed that night of a pretty girl I dreamed of a riverboat Til a man in blue kicked at my shoe said come on boy let's go I said oh officer oh officer please don't take me to jail He said you can't sleep outside now my hands are tied I knew that feeling all too well He said if you play in must town son you'll play it by the rules That downtown time shed light on sights you won't see in school Out of jail I found myself a walking down the road So glad to hear that old Jake brake come purring nice and slow He said I'm gone as far as Fayetville I've got some room to spare Could you drop me off in fort Smith sir well I've got family there And he barred the Jack on that big black Mack kicking back I played it cool From a shotgun seat I learned some things they don't teach in school And I wish I was in Shreveport just a gambling like a fool Well you can learn some things down there they don't teach in school Well I said you can learn some things down there they don't teach in school
Looking back, well I see you With eyes that shouldn't be so blue Clearer than the calm before the rain. So alive it wasn't fair To live without a single prayer I loved you and you felt for me the same So beautiful that words can not define, Sweeter than the Lord's communion wine. Evangeine, can't you see I'm sorry? Can't you hear my tears Ringing through the night? I wait in Hell between these bedsheets, And pray to God for morning light. And winter came and blood ran cold As ever present sleet and snow Outside obeyed a somber window pane. And this house would never be our home, Oh hand in hand we walked alone I thought the sun Would never shine again. And the oldest violin could never whine, A melody as sorrowful as mine. Evangeline, can't you see I'm sorry? Can't you hear my tears Ringing through the night? I wait in Hell between these bedsheets And pray to God for morning light. And now I've seen your face A thousand times, Nightmares running through my mind It hurts, just to pretend But the Devil fell, and so have I, From perfect grace your face to sky I never thought a love like this would end. Now your words They cut right through me like a knife Well I gave my love And now I take my life Evangeline, can't you see I'm sorry? Can't you hear my tears Ringing through the night? I wait in Hell between these bedsheets And pray to God for morning light. I wait in Hell between these bedsheets And pray to God for morning light.
Well, I'm gonna pick up some of these empties, Lord As soon as I find where they lay Tied off them jolly and leavin' lines On a long hot summer day, yeah For every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day Well, I got me a girl in Pekin She's a good old girl, okay Oh, she's sittin' there waitin' by a window fan On a long hot summer day For every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day Well, last night we had pork for supper And tomorrow it'll be chicken consommé And a fruit jar full of iced tea On a long hot summer day And for every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day Well, we dropped a man off in Beardstown When we got off yesterday Gonna get off down in Alton On a long hot summer day And for every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day And for every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day And for every day I'm workin' on the Illinois River Get a half a day off with pay Old tow boat pickin' up barges On a long hot summer day
Well, in the early autumn wind A lonely dove is flyin' Mournin' for his one true love He can't be blamed for cryin' He can't be blamed for cryin' Well, the rooster, he got 20 gals Well, he's happy as a lark Well, he wake 'em in the mornin' time Put 'em all to bed at dark Put 'em all to bed at dark Well, if you've been true Well, if you've been true You'd better look me in the eyes 'Cause all I smell is cheap perfume And gin and smoke and lies Well, where were you last Saturday All dressed up so pretty? With your blue-eyed ballroom boy In Oklahoma City In Oklahoma City Well, the spade is made for diggin' dirt And an axe is made for choppin' And darlin', my heart's hard as nails They hammer in a hardwood coffin In a hardwood coffin Well, if you've been true Well, if you've been true You better look me in the eyes 'Cause all I smell is cheap perfume And gin and smoke and lies Well, way down in the bottom land A big black crow is laughin' No one dares to go down there Wonder what has happened Wonder what has happened And in the early autumn wind A lonely dove is cryin' Mournin' for his one true love He can't be blamed for cryin' He can't be blamed for cryin' Well, if you've been true Well, if you've been true You better look me in the eyes 'Cause all I smell is cheap perfume And gin and smoke and lies Well, if you've been true Well, if you've been true You better look me in the eyes 'Cause all I smell is cheap perfume And gin and smoke and lies And gin and smoke and lies
Well he was pushing 80, but he acted 22 He could laugh and drink just like his grandchildren would do There was square hay on the meadow, second cutting of the year Well his summer work was over once they got the pasture cleared They were drinking on the big bluff across the river from the field Well, he walked up to the edge and threw a stone in and he kneeled And he looked down at the water, he said boys I'm going in They were cheering when he jumped but he did not come up again Well raise another round boys and have another glass Be thankful for today knowing it will never last Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead Well it was 20 after midnight, they were going 85 She was barely out of high school wanting bad to feel alive Just a two lane piece of blacktop, a snakey stretch of road Well the wind blew through the wing vents, it was clear and fresh and cold Well the driver killed the headlights and he put the throttle down When they hit the railroad crossing they were five feet off the ground Just a-screaming through the midnight, 'til they came down again Well the front tire hit a bar ditch, they went end over end Well raise another round boys and have another glass Be thankful for today knowing it will never last Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead Well I'm twenty eight years old now, I was born in '84 And I've been free as I can be and I won't ask for anymore So let the fiddle play a hoedown after I've drawn my last breath Well, tell everyone I know that I loved them all to death Well raise another round boys and have another glass Be thankful for today knowing it will never last Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we're dead
Well I guess I was born with a gun in my hand We'd walk the big clearcuts in the pine timberland Well the army man told me that I could defend the free Aw and draw me a paycheck, get a tech school degree I said hey now sergeant, that sure does sound fine Well the sawmill ain't hiring, tell me where do I sign Chorus: Won't you light a lantern for me I'll be gone but not for long Won't you keep a candle burnin' Won't you leave a porch light on Well my hands are still steady and they still hold a gun And this suit of a soldier for your southestern son Well tell mom not to worry if she's taking it hard Never thought I'd see action back when I joined the guard Well all this will be over more later than soon As I wote in a letter beneath the big afghan moon Chorus X2
Well you have been a fighting man Youve seen your share of war Living for your Uncle Sam Sam dont need you anymore Youll be gone, youll be leaving Youll be back home again On Christmas or July fourth I really dont remember when And Im glad to see your doing well, We all know just who you are, Put your saber on the shelf And well take down the ole blue star. Well I remember when youd send me letters And make my day when I was young Photographs with M-16s And money from Somalia Youll be gone, youll be leaving Youll be back home again On Christmas or July fourth I really dont remember when And Im glad to see your doing well, We all know just who you are, Put your saber on the shelf And well take down the ole blue star. Your back home with your little girl Wild and pretty, blonde and blue You cant help but be their world And they cant help but look like you Youll be gone, youll be leaving Youll be back home again On Christmas or July fourth I really dont remember when And Im glad to see your doing well, We all know just who you are, Put your saber on the shelf And well take down the ole blue star.
You've got a ring You've got a new last name You got the same old eyes They're the same all the same And you've got a heart Big enough to kill us all But when you fall Well damn you fall Well you've got a way And you've got away with it before And you've got a look That could drop me dead here on the floor And you've got a touch It's the sweetest one I know I gotta go, yeah I gotta go CHORUS Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade Well you gotta try Awful hard to keep ahead You got a man (I've got a man) Oh and I've been actin like a kid And you've got more Than a tattoo up your sleeve It's time to leave (It's time to leave) It's time to leave CHORUS Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade Well I've gotta quit Yeah darlin I guess do too Well I'll take a hint (Oh take a hint) It's our time we get a clue And darlin please (Oh please) Wells could you stop sayin love Oh this ain't love (No this ain't love) Good God above CHORUS Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade Can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade
Well the movers and shakers on Morgan Street Passin out booze tattoos and scars Dance to anything to with a good backbeat Drink up the night, close down the bars Drink up the night, close down the bars Long haired Josh got an old New Yorker A bad drinkin habit has a real good time Laughin like a kid comin round the corner Liquor on his breath trouble on your mind Oh the movers and shakers on Morgan Street Passin out booze tattoos and scars Dance to anything to with a good backbeat Drink up the night, close down the bars Drink up the night, close down the bars Now Angie shes a mess, tryin to be an actress Playin out a scene from behind the bar Said shes had enough of it, gotta to get away from this Headed to Chicago in a borrowed car Well the movers and shakers on Morgan Street Passin out booze tattoos and scars Dance to anything to with a good backbeat Drink up the night, close down the bars Drink up the night, close down the bars Jordan played accordian, dropped out of college Cookie was a drummer in a punk rock band Me, Im just a wall flower, soakin up knowledge My heart on my sleeve, and a beer in my hand My heart on my sleeve, and a beer in my hand Well the movers and shakers on Morgan Street Passin out booze tattoos and scars Dance to anything to with a good backbeat Drink up the night, close down the bars Drink up the night, close down the bars
You had your hands on the wheel Stood on the street 'neath the telephone lines Well, you took everything you could steal You came and you went like a thief in the night And I ran for the hills so you couldn't kill me But damn, you cut close to the bone You can call me a fool, you can call me alone Call me gone, gone, gone And this heavy old heart is as steady as stone Call me gone, gone, gone Well, the sun's gonna rise in the east And I'm bound to stumble on a Saturday night Well, passion is painful, but it's free Love is a mean, hateful business sometimes And I ran for the hills, so you couldn't kill me But damn, you cut close to the bone You can call me a fool, you can call me alone Call me gone, gone, gone And this heavy old heart is as steady as stone Call me gone, gone, gone Well, I'd throw the horses some feed I'll warm my hands up to a hickory fire Well, I'm hangin' on to the heat Love is a cold institution sometimes And I'm all full of guilt, in a night full of black For sellin' my soul, for a pat on the back You can call me a fool, you can call me alone Call me gone, gone, gone And this heavy old heart is as steady as stone Call me gone, gone, gone Call me gone, gone, gone Call me gone, gone, gone
Lorrie lit a cigarette and smiled And waved the smoke out of her face With her black hair brown from the summer sun Green eyes looked around the place And she told me that she loved me And I grinned and grabbed her hand and said, "I know" Let's get from here Now darling if we're going Let's go on and go Well, Lorrie said her family used to have a little money And they still act like they do Well, your daddy don't think I'm fit to sit In the same room with you And if I ever set foot in Sevier county Well your brother said he'd break my jaw And here I sit with the dark haired daughter of Southwest Arkansas And I've been learning that believing And that barely breaking even It's just a part of life for you and me And I've been living with the loneliness It's got down in my bones I guess It's just another phase of being free And I've been learning how to lose a thing I never laid a hand on all along Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong Well D-Queens dry so I bought us both a bottle In downtown Broken Bow Lorries got a buddy with a double wide trailer They were shaking dominoes And I had good intentions 'til I had too many I was stupid I suppose You better put a little money where your mouth is boy And try to keep it closed And I've been learning that believing And that barely breaking even It's just a part of life for you and me And I've been living with the loneliness It's got down in my bones I guess It's just another phase of being free And I've been learning how to lose a thing I never laid a hand on all along Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong Well Lorrie said I wonder what we ever went through All this trouble for You ain't half of who I thought you was And this ain't fun no more And her words cut clean through drunk And dark and dimmin' doorway light Well I've had all I can handle Hope you're happy now, goodnight Guess her folks were right Guess her folks were right Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong Well good lord Lorrie, I love you Could it go more wrong
Well two old red-nosed whiskey drunks were talkin' politics It was time to hit the bricks It was time for me to go And I was right there on the verge of pullin' out my hair Actin' as though I could not care less and hopin' she would show Well my bags are packed and ready I was feelin' like a wreck Some clothes and personal effects I left everything I own And the last I laid eyes on her We were in a hotel hall Holdin' hands like paper dolls But here I sit alone Well, I'm gonna give it one more minute Give me one more round of rum Well I'm as empty as a drum I'm as empty as a drum Could you spare a cigarette I hate to be a bum But here's to hopin' she'll still come I'm too old to be this dumb Well, I'm too old to be this dumb Well, I tell you that bartender She's a sight to see You'd be envious of me Least you would if she was here And the kid there in the corner has been spoilin' for a fight And it feels like that of night Buddy instead pour me a beer And I'm gonna give it one more minute Give me one more round of rum Well I'm as empty as a drum I'm as empty as a drum Could you spare a cigarette I hate to be a bum But here's to hopin' she'll still come I'm too old to be this dumb Well, I'm too old to be this dumb When you darkened up the doorway I stood up from the bar Well I said hey now here you are Damn it darlin' how are you And you kissed me Said I can't say that I'm great Oh Lord, I hate it that I am late Oh, what a mess we got into
Well lookin' back when I met you We were shiny, we were brand new A couple kids who'd never been to town It was a quart of beer, a paper sack Leave a penny on the railroad track You let me steal a kiss from you when no one was around Hangin' out, hangin' on To the night 'fore it was gone Like we'd never see that parking lot again We were sneakin' in the picture show And pourin' bourbon in our coke Aw, and never seein' how the movie ends And I thought that they might ride off in the sun But you wrecked it all, you wrecked my heart You wrecked our house and you wrecked my car Left all the pieces scattered on the lawn Caught up in your headlights Well I was blindsided in plain sight I'll salvage what I may when you're gone But you wrecked it all Well on down the road we built our home Out of bedsheets and styrofoam Hopin' that the wind might never blow And it's love or fight everyday Like a Tennessee Williams play Not knowin' how it ended when we signed on for the show And I hoped that we might ride off in the sun But you wrecked it all, you wrecked my heart You wrecked our house and you wrecked my car Left all the pieces scattered on the lawn Caught up in your headlights Well I was blindsided in plain sight I'll salvage what I may when you're gone But you wrecked it all You wrecked it all Life ain't what it was back then Someone smashed the windshield in Well you never see it comin' 'til it's knockin' out your teeth And it's the same Saturday Brand new Fords and Chevrolets Lined up like they never saw the likes of you and me And I watched them as they drove off in the sun But you wrecked it all, you wrecked my heart You wrecked our house and you wrecked my car Left all the pieces scattered on the lawn Caught up in your headlights Well I was blindsided in plain sight I'll salvage what I may when you're gone But you wrecked it all La da da La da da da da da da da You wrecked it all
Well I wont lie and say I didn't think the good ones all were taken Since there aint no peaches falling from the tree that I've been shaking And it's solitary sleeping in this bed that I've been making Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead Well my intent was being handed I never laid a hand And the kindness of my gesture was a good far cry from grand They were awful well intended, they were all that I can stand Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead Chorus 1: And now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone Lord, I've been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout halfway to dead Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh Lord, well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead Well West Texas in the morning, little darling are you down And if I told you how I felt, well you'd say boy get out of town Well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead Chorus 2: Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did Well Darlin if I called you would you even talk to me When I am lit up like a star atop your favorite Christmas tree And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead Ah maybe I should quit while im ahead, oh Lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead Chorus 1: Now darlin if I called you, could you love me like a kid Could you love me like you loved me way back when you really did Well Darlin if I called you could you just pick up the phone Lord, ive been dancing with damnation and I'm drinking all alone And I am busted broke and bent and beat and 'bout half way to dead Ah maybe I should quit while I'm ahead, oh lord well maybe I should quit while I'm ahead
Well, the covey took wing, shotguns a-singin' A pointing dog down in the old logging road Danny got three and looked back a-grinning I fumbled and I tried to reload The country was cold with the sun westward sinking It's good to be back in this place With my hands around a Belgian made Browning My mind on the lines of her face Well now, Danny's my buddy, we grew up like family Hunted this timber before we could drive And the old English Pointer, he once belonged to me But I give him up when I moved in '05 Off with a girl, off to the city Off on a wing and a chance Hell, I thought it'd play out just like some story We fell in love at a rodeo dance She said, "Go back to Cherokee County Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb?" Says, "Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home" Dan says, "Look at ol' Jim A dozen Decembers behind him no worse for the wear And your time spent in Tulsa did not help your shooting And look at the gray in your hair How good does it feel? You belong in these hills It's best that you let it all end If you'd have married that girl, you'd have married her family You dodged a bullet, my friend" She said, "Go back to Cherokee County Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb?" Says, "Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home" Ah, and I was beginning to deal with it ending The old dog had pointed while part of me died And a flutter of feathers Then a shotgun to shoulder I thought of the Fourth of July She'll be home on the Fourth of July I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July Dan says, "Hell of a shot, looks like you've still got it That's what we came here to do Well, it's light enough still, at the foot of the hill We could kick up a single or two" She said, "Go back to Cherokee County Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb?" Says, "Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home" Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
Lorrie laughs like she just don't care Got a red bandana and raven hair Sitting in the corner at The Mercury Cowboy killers in a plain white tee And back before the glasses and the sleeve tattoos She's just another small town kid And sure, she's gotta couple problems now But she doesn't try to keep 'em hid Her kind of loving is a little like a fist fight Alright, alright The kind of thing you never see before midnight Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town I want you tell me where to be when the walls start falling Well, I've never seen Jimmy in that old Corvette He looks like hell, but he ain't dead yet Rough around the edges, but his clothes are clean Hayseed dressed up like James Dean And any way I play it, well, I can't get him to say it But I think that him and Lorrie were a thing Well, come now that I think about it He don't say much of anything Her kind of loving is a little like a fist fight Alright, alright The kind of thing you never see before midnight Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town I want you tell me where to be when the walls start falling Well, it's 1 a.m., and wild and loud Like sittin' in the middle of a funnel cloud A five-spot for a shot and a beer Now, do you wonder how we wound up here I tell you friend that every now and then And it's like a money game of cut-throat pool Lorrie's talking just a little too sweet to me Jimmy's in the next bar stool Her kind of loving is a little like a fist fight Alright, alright The kind of thing you never see before midnight Well, it's throwback punks and daytime drunks And PBR's and stouts Lorrie's over by the jukebox now Dancing to the "Twist and Shout" And Jimmy's storming out the front door Lord, you'd think someone had died I ain't going anywhere at all Now, I'm about to hit my stride The kind of loving is a little like a fist fight Alright, alright The kind of thing you never see before midnight Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town Won't you tell me where to be when the walls start falling? Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town Won't you tell me where to be when the walls start falling? Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town I want you tell me where to be when the walls start falling Girl, I know you're gonna wreck this town Won't you tell me where to be when the walls start falling down?
Hey there, buddy, why the old long face? Get to lookin' like you lost the race Get to lookin' like you didn't place at all Well, I heard you've been running with a wilder cast Playin' hard and livin fast And for a while you had a blast You were feeling ten feet tall You're gonna be alright, you'll be fine You can have a nickel outta my last dime The moon is bright and you're alright down here Your intention's good and well Pave a little on the road to hell Flew a little high and fell You were smiling all the while Well, you tried so bad just to be good Hold your cards and you knock on wood A little harder than anyone should But hey, that's just your style You're gonna be alright, you'll be fine You can have a nickel outta my last dime The moon is bright and you're alright down here Aw, you shot the moon and you wound up set Ain't I taught you how to hedge a bet? Hate to say it, but it's what you get A right hook to the jaw We all still think you're great I'm gonna have to shoot you straight You go to fishin' or you cut some bait Take a hammer to the wall You'll be alright, you'll be fine You can have a nickel outta my last dime The moon is bright and you're alright down here You're gonna be alright, you'll be fine You can have a nickel outta my last dime Don't go wasting too much time down here
Hillbilly girl just as sweet as wine Grew up in a thicket like a muskadine Said you'd get a little touch of that holy ghost See a catfish head on a corner post Well I make my hay in the sunshine honey Ain't nothin' like you ever come my way Well I give you every bit of my spending money Give me just a minute of your time of day Well I never go and fall in love too quick Never have and never will now Well that's the kinda liquor that'll make a man sick You try to fool me into thinking that you're so refined But you're the kind of liquor to make a man go stone blind Well I make my hay in the sunshine honey Ain't nothin' like you ever come my way Well I give you every bit of my spending money Give me just a minute of your time of day Got a head full of whiskey You know I gotta belly full of crow You know if you're coming with me Little mama better let me know I make my hay in the sunshine honey Aint nothin' like you ever come my way I give you every bit of my spending money Give me just a minute of your time Give me just a little of your time now, mama Well I make my hay in the sunshine honey Aint nothin' like you ever come my way Well I give you every bit of my spending money Give me just a minute of your time of day
I thought it better not to talk about The letter that you sent It was no one else's business It was barely even mine And the situation went The way the situation went We sthat shit off of our shoes A hundred-thousand times Well won't you miss your whiskey in the wintertime My dear The way that I've been missing you this fall And cheap champagne don't dull the pain Of ringing in the year Wondering if you think of me at all Well the fool I loved in Kansas Was the fool I loved the best You were fool enough to fall in love with me We were two tornadoes Touching down out in the old midwest And we did our best at dodging the debris Well won't you miss your whiskey in the wintertime My dear The way that I've been missing you this fall And cheap champagne don't dull the pain Of ringing in the year Wondering if you think of me at all With a little more resolve I might be somewhere else with you But I make no resolution of the kind So I guess its just God blessing you Did all that you could do Let all acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind To roman candles cut across A January sky Well won't you miss your whiskey in the wintertime My dear The way that I've been missing you this fall And cheap champagne don't dull the pain Of ringing in the year Wondering if you think of me at all Well I still wonder about you sometimes You know
Well I've got a little tune that I could hum to turn back time Back to all our better days and nights Well now what a fool to figure that forever you'd be mine Well I wrote a little rhyme to make it right And I found a pretty way to say That I can't throw it all away A little song to make you stay Well I've been looking backward now Until I've damn near gone blind Searching for a pretty sight to see Finding out the only thing I'm needing now to find Is finally standing right in front of me And I think I stole a melody To stop you now from leaving me A little song to make you see Well you could kill the engine And just cool it for awhile And I could do my best just to keep it light And maybe for a moment you'll remember how to smile Maybe we're fogetting how to fight Well you don't want me anymore Just wait until I count to four And you're tapping on the hardwood floor And I'll sing it for you til I'm blue For any good that it could do A little song to pull us through Well I've got a little tune that I could hum to turn back time Back to all our better days and nights Well what fool to figure that forever you'd be mine Well I wrote a little rhyme to make it right
I guess what I'll miss, the most will be the mornings The squeak of a hardwood floor as you start out your day And I've loved you darling from across your kitchen table And I've loved you darling from a thousand miles away Oh and I'm still standing here and I've got reasonable fears All the houses I've built came crashing down around my ears And we got a long drive home We got a long drive home We got a long drive home And I'm damned if I do And I'm damned if you don't If home is what you're lookin for, won't you find another business? If lovin' songs ain't in your cards, won't you find another game? Well I'm still here searchin' for the things that I've been missin' Livin' with these lowdown fools and all our stupid shame Oh and I still dwell and set on all the things that I regret You still can't forgive the times that I wish I could forget We got a long drive home We got a long drive home We got a long drive home And I'm damned if I do And I'm damned if you don't Well people anymore, they got no stayin' power I love you come by easy, it'll leave you just the same You want somethin bad, you gotta bleed a little for it You gotta look it in the eye, you gotta call it out by name Oh and lovers they march by, but they ain't like you and I They all wanna be Hank Williams, they don't wanna have to die And we got a long drive home We got a long drive home We got a long drive home And I'm damned if I do And I'm damned if you don't
Well I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up a bourbon stain Now I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can And I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main Well we drove up to the city On an autumn Saturday night Ah and damn that girl looks pretty In the artificial moon light And I swore she looked right at me Like we were meant to be What's a girl like that gonna wanna have to do With a country boy like me Well I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up cheap champagne And I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can And I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main Now I'm back down on a farm Dreaming 'bout those big city lights Wakin' up at dawn Workin' 'till it's night But I'm savin' up my money And this time I'll make her see What a girl like that just might want With a country boy like me Well I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main On the Cain's Ballroom floor Soaking up a bourbon stain Well I'm going back to see her Just as soon as I can Now I left my heart in Tulsa On the corner of Easton and Main
Well that banker He keeps calling Telling us our mortgage is overdue Gonna plow up the fields Gonna burn down the house And the banker he can have it when I'm through There ain't no silver left in these pockets There ain't no cornbread, Lord there ain't no wine That train don't stop around here anymore It done moved on down the line Well the tax man He said old Uncle Sam Gotta get this share of the rake He can come around here He can look for himself There ain't nothing left he can take There ain't no silver left in these pockets There ain't no cornbread, Lord there ain't no wine That train don't stop around here anymore It done moved on down the line I'm going to go back to Grandaddy's farm On Cherokee allotted land It ain't ever been owned by no one but him Won't be taxed by no other man There ain't no silver left in these pockets There ain't no cornbread, Lord there ain't no wine That train don't stop around here anymore It done moved on down the line
Well when I first met Doreen she was barely seventeen She was drinkin' whiskey sours in a bar And the way she tossed 'em back I would've had a heart attack Ah but as it is I let her drive my car We galloped through burrows like a pair of horny throughbreds Until I said "Just stop the car, Doreen" You can roll your eyes and nod but I swear that I saw God In the moonlight on a side street in the wreckage we call Queens Doreen, Doreen Last night I had an aweful dream You were layin' in the arms of a man I've never seen Come clean, Doreen Come clean, Doreen Well I'm pullin' into Cleveland bein' in a seven seater tour van There's eight of us, I'm sleppin' on the floor And the guy who plays the banjo keeps on handin' me the Old Crow The multiples my sorrow, I can't take it anymore Doreen, Doreen Last night I had an aweful dream You were layin' in the arms of a man I've never seen Come clean, Doreen Come clean, Doreen Well, I'm beggin' and I'm pleadin' Please pull over, guys, I'm bleedin' There's a Fina off the highway with a phone And I'm callin' you Doreen but the phone it rings and rings Where is it that you are if you aren't in our bed at home Doreen, Doreen Last night I had an aweful dream You were layin' in the arms of a man I've never seen Come clean, Doreen Come clean, Doreen, Doreen Last night I had an aweful dream You were layin' in the arms of a man I've never seen Come clean, Doreen Come clean, Doreen I'm coming clean, Doreen I'm coming clean, Doreen Yeah yeah yeah yeah
How do you fall out of love? Well how could you lose such a thing? You try and hang to what's already gone How does a person just change? Well how do you fall out of love? Why did it wind up so bad? Were the good times all that we had? We laughed and we loved but when push came to shove Why did it end up so sad? How did we fall out of love? You bet your heart on a diamond And I played the clubs and spades We gambled and lost, guess we both paid the cost Look what a mess I have made How did we fall out of love? How do you know when it's over? How do you know when to run? For cryin' out loud, I was bound to walk out How do you know when it's done? How do you fall out of love? How could you lose such a thing? You try and hang on to what's already gone But how does a person just change? How do you fall out of love?
Well Robbie's got a brand new girlfriend. She's got a script for pills. These here man they're the good ones. Counting those ten dollar bills. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. He's got a thousand dollars. That's more than the saw mills paying. Lucy she's at her mamas. But he'll lose it all today He's got a thousand dollars. That's just some gasoline. You know that boy well he can gamble. Like you ain't never seen. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. He's pulling down on that lever. Like he's got cash to burn. Barely too proud to beg. I guess that boy will never learn. He's driving back home on sunday. Praying he don't get killed. You know that Lucy's kinda crazy. When she ain't got her pills. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away. What Mama don't know won't hurt her. That's what he'd always say. He's going down to Bossier City. Gonna drink his cares away.
I remember smelling smoke, I woke up I was choking Lorrie grabbed the baby and we made it safe outside She never missed a note, took a breath and cleared her throat And wrapped him in a Carhart coat she found out in my ride Next thing I remember, I was barefoot in December When I hit the door again it really came alive That was all she wrote, in a 30 second note I got out with a photograph and my old auto 5 Lord knows that I've been blessed I can stand up to the test I can live on so much less, this much I been learning Feeling a pounding in my chest I'm fearful I'll confess How am I to get my rest? The house I built is burning Well Lorrie called the volunteers, siren music to my ears First I been glad to hear the flashing red and blue Can't repay the time they gave, there was nothing left to save Shake all of their hands and wave they did all they could do Lord knows that I've been blessed I can stand up to the test I can live on so much less, this much I been learning Forgive my cowardice I'm fearful I'll confess How am I to get my rest? The house I built is burning We snuck away two nights ago, rode around the logging roads We been stuck in a motor home about to fall apart We finally made a go, got dealt a heavy blow She said I'll bet you make it, its a long way from your heart Well I know that I've been blessed I can make more out of less I can get my rest in any bed that I lay down in Got nothing holding me Got a couple memories A picture of the three of us, and my grandfather's Browning
Won't you give me something Something to hold on to This whole world has taken Taken me for a ride You come smiling through the doorway looking like an old regret Still a whole lot better than you did last time we met Between a real hard spot and a hole in a concrete wall Running out of highway looking for a place to fall Won't you give me something Something to hold on to This whole world has taken Taken me for a ride Pick me up and learn me Turn me down and burn me Darling won't you give me Give me one last try Well to tell you true I never thought we'd be here again Gonna feel alright now darling for the shape I'm in Nearly fell to pieces just thinking it would all fall through Feeling like somebody when you finally came into view Darling won't you give me something Something to hold on to This whole world has taken Taken me for a ride Pick me up and learn me Turn me down and burn me Darling won't you give me Give me one last try Now I won't say it all worked out like I planned Lucky I still got a leg on which to stand I had a half of mind to get gone Leave it a little try to move on But I just sat there staring at the secondhand On the barroom wall now Darling won't you give me something Something to hold on to This whole world has taken Taken me for a ride Pick me up and learn me Turn me down and burn me Darling won't you give me Give me one last try Try
Well I turned and shut my eyes As you let the gravel fly When I looked up you had cleared the driveway You and your big cloud of dust All your chrome and all your rust Beggin' to lay scattered on the highway Well I have not forgotten when we may as well be kin Raising hell from here to Bryan County Wishing I could let you in Give you shelter from the wind But that hurricane ain't coming down around me Oh well you can curse your fiddle till it breaks down at the binding Curse your locomotive off the rail And all that trouble you've been looking for is easy in the finding Well the devil's into fine detail Well I nearly took your lead With your pistol and your speed Shoot to kill and plan to be forgiven But in between the mill And whatever deer I kill Truth be told I barely make a living Oh well you can curse your fiddle till it breaks down at the binding Curse your locomotive off the rail And all that trouble you've been looking for is easy in the finding Well the devil's into fine detail And you're somewhere in the winding stair Thinking you still got a trick or two And you're planning out your fight in the lantern light But I don't see this going well for you No I don't see this going well for you Well the sheriff came last night Is everything alright? Ask for any help that I can give No we had a falling out Well then what's this all about They said the man who's shot is gonna live Oh well you can curse your fiddle till it breaks down at the binding Curse your locomotive off the rail And all that trouble you've been looking for is easy in the finding Well the devil's into fine detail Well the devil's into fine detail
Well, I can tell you she's a bad idea For the good it would do You got a Chevrolet as old as her Hey, you bought it new Mmm-mmm, nice to meet you ma'am Well, I'll be damned if she won't let you Leave her line of sight With her left hand closed on a yellow rose Dying in the neon light Mmm-mmm Mmm-mmm, she's something, right? There's a thousand things that I could say But I just bite my tongue And listen as the last note fades away That bell can't be unrung He's a hero of mine, you know, honey They don't make 'em like that no more He's a hero of mine, you know, honey As if he wasn't before Oh, a thousand things that I could say But I just bite my tongue And listen as the last note fades away That bell can't be unrung Well, I could tell you she's a bad idea For the good it would do I could tell you she's a mixed up girl Hell, she's 22 She's hanging on every word you say Like a song yet to be sung So we listen as the last note fades away That bell can't be unrung So we listen as the last note fades away That bell can't be unrung
We were sitting on the front porch With the weather rolling in Laughing louder than the big south wind You ran out to roll your window Light rain falling on your hair Your tan legs checkered from a folding chair There's country music in the kitchen I hear it singing through the screen Weather warnings in between Glad you got out of the city There's no telling what's in store Along the 35 Corridor Kerosene to feed the flame Your effect is quite the same Shadows dancing on the wall and Waiting for the sky to fall Couldn't ask for better weather You were [?] Until the sound of hailstone hitting tin It's loud enough you gotta yell now The whole thing hits me like a song A pretty one that won't last long Kerosene to feed the flame Your effect is quite the same Shadows dancing on the wall and Waiting for the sky to fall and Waiting for the sky to fall Yeah [?] in the morning light That simple shade of blue The kind that always follow you Kerosene to feed the flame Your effect is quite the same Shadows dancing on the wall and Waiting for the sky to fall and Waiting for the sky to fall
I hear the clicking of the dominoes You shaking up a game And if we lose a hand I bet I'll know just who's to blame But if we hear "twenty-one" If we make that call I bet I'll sit here in my chair Just feeling ten feet tall And we're caught up in the riff-raff Circling 'round the sun It takes a whole lot of blood and tears Just to really love someone But when it comes back around That's heaven on Earth You never know 'til the end, my friend What your love is really worth Are you cracking jokes with the common folks? Are you serving to the well-to-do? I've traveled 'round and I ain't found nobody quite like you And is all this living meant to be or a happy accident? Well, in my heart, you pay no rent Well, in my heart, you pay no rent I hear the crackle of a campfire You're howlin' at the moon We all know that you gotta go But does it have to be so soon? Bet somebody's yelling "last call" I hope you get some rest Hope you found everything that you wanted In the place you love the best Are you cracking jokes with the common folks? Are you serving to the well-to-do? Well, I've traveled 'round and I ain't found nobody quite like you And is all this living meant to be or a happy accident? Well, in my heart, you pay no rent Well, in my heart, you pay no rent Now we're shaking up the dominoes Beneath the neon light Knowing anybody else out there Couldn't put up a better fight But the fighting time's over It's all gone You pick up the pieces And we try to carry on Are you cracking jokes with the common folks? Are you serving to the well-to-do? Well, I've traveled 'round and I ain't found nobody quite like you And is all this living meant to be or a happy accident? Well, in my heart, you pay no rent Don't cost you nothing, not a single cent Time together was time well spent In my heart, you pay no rent In my heart, you pay no rent
Well I just hit town You know the old routine Try to tear it down Like you've never seen It's a brand new year Feels like '27 warmed over '27 warmed over On the road again, off of Highway 10 In a cabin on a rural route I'm gonna figure out the hard way How fast I can wear my welcome out Lord I miss this place Could have stayed Instead tried to keep the pace Out at Diamond Head I was almost there Silver medal for the loser Silver medal for the loser On the road again, off of Highway 10 In a cabin on a rural route I'm gonna figure out the hard way How fast I can wear my welcome out I'm gonna figure out the hard way I'm gonna figure out the hard way Now I'm headed out With the same unrest Tried to tear it down But it was unimpressed Used to feel like home It was rolling in the clover now '27 warmed over now It's '27 warmed over On the road again, off of Highway 10 In a cabin on a rural route I'm gonna figure out the hard way How fast I can wear my welcome out I'm gonna figure out the hard way How fast I can wear my welcome out
Like a mockingbird, I sing my song Stole outright and played all wrong In the darkest hour of the night Oh, and I ain't made the opry yet Miss you now but hey, no sweat I can get along alone alright City lights and pretty clothes Silver linings, wrapped up bows Autumn leaves and fall and winter snow Well, I'm hoping now that where you are They all think you're a movie star 'Cause you are the most famous girl I know And I'm waiting now to catch you in the corner of my eye I know you're gonna darken up my door Well, I've got that old time feeling, babe Well, it still ain't passed me by Well, I've got that old time feeling like before Well, I'm the same old me you know Fucking up the status quo Trouble all the way up to my neck And I can keep it cool and new Until you catch me half-past-two Just about that time and I'm a wreck This old world will spin again Play me like a violin Knock all of the wind out of my chest Well, I don't mind you playing me Just keep it in a major key Now you're waking up and I can get some rest And I'm waiting now to catch you in the corner of my eye I know you're gonna darken up my door Well, I've got that old time feeling, babe It still ain't passed me by I've got that old time feeling like before Well, I've got that old time feeling like before Yeah, I've got that old time feeling like before
Tonight we're fighting in a losing war Don't even remember what we're fighting for Running on hope and gasoline Got a real bad feeling it's a pipe bomb dream Well I did a little something for the brave and free Now you gonna make a law against a boy like me Took a few too many liberties It's a hard ass lesson to learn Roll the dice just one more turn Too heavy on the pedal and you crash and burn Driving all night with a steady hand Bringing a heavy rig home from the promised land Oklahoma City by the morning sun I ain't never met a problem that I can't outrun I did a little something for the brave and free Now you gonna make a law against a boy like me Took a few too many liberties It's a hard ass lesson to learn But I roll the dice just one more turn Too heavy on the pedal and you crash and burn Well I was riding high when the lights came on I was 45 miles from the county line Hit a jackpot once went back for more From an old pipe dream to a cell block floor Say it's alright but you know it's not And you're breaking up laws and you wind up caught It's everything or all for naught It's a hard ass lesson to learn But I roll the dice just one more time Too heavy on the pedal and you crash and burn Too heavy on the pedal and you crash and burn
Well, the night goes on forever when you try to make it last We were passing time together, just laying in the grass And we looked up at the heavens, and we saw the worlds collide We were lying still and watching, they were flying through the sky The stars in Oklahoma Never seen a night so cool and clear Shootin' stars in Oklahoma Burn so bright, then they disappear Well, the moonlight has a way of throwing shadows on the night It would be a shame to waste the only place we had to hide With the morning glowing bright and shining light upon our faces We faded with the dawn, and then we went our separate ways The stars in Oklahoma Never seen a night so cool and clear Shootin' stars in Oklahoma They shine so bright, then they disappear Ah, the stars in Oklahoma on the banks in late September And I lead you through the darkness on a night you won't remember Is everyone that easy? Do they all just play the fool? Are they all just out here lookin' for a way to break the rules? Well it would take a fool to say it, like a photograph of grace And fools need supervision or a gift for saving face Yeah, we got it on a handshake, bought it for a song Yeah, I chase a simple feeling of doin' something wrong 'Neath the stars in Oklahoma Never seen a night so cool and clear Shootin' stars in Oklahoma Shine so bright, then they disappear Shine so bright, then they disappear
Sunday Morning paper said Rock'n'Roll is surely dead Something hit me Deep down in my soul Lord I know It's just the Rock'n'Roll Never one time did I have a dream you wouldn't live forever Bet you never planned on getting old Look like you were born to loose Your slick back hair and your prison blues Mother tried to keep you from that road Lord I know It's just the Rock'n'Roll Well, you showed up from the underground Bakersfield to Tulsa town An inch away from needing crowd control Lord I know Oh Lord I know Women, wine and Benzodine Out to break the big machine Getting of the low-down for the truth Fighting at it fingernail and tooth Somewhere between ten and two Someone's wishing they were you Make a living of your highs and lows Lord I know It's just the Rock'n'Roll Never one time did I have a dream you wouldn't live forever Bet you never planned on getting old Banging on the baby grand Play that thing to beat the band Screaming out for everything you're worth Well, you dressed up like the greatest show on earth Sunday Morning paper said Rock'n'Roll is surely dead I don't think I'll ever let it go Even though It's just the Rock'n'Roll
Empty promises I've given Hollow heart beats in my chest And every word of sterling silver Stirred butterflies beneath your breast Still untouched by ties a-binding Going where the gulf breeze blows No ring of gold around your finger No ring of brass run through my nose Headlong for the wall now, honey Still coming up like a rose Dead still in the garden, waiting for the reveille The dawn is yet to dry the dew from off my Sunday clothes That mean old sun better rise up soon if it's ever gonna set on me Hear the song she sang in darkness Tearful, fair and free and fine "You're the one", she softly whispers My canary in the mine Headlong for the wall now, honey Still coming up like a rose Dead still in the garden, waiting for the reveille The dawn is yet to dry the dew from off my Sunday clothes That mean old sun better rise up soon if it's ever gonna set on me I met a man, pale gray with wisdom Told me faith will come collect Hard-tempered steel bites at my ankles Soft cotton rove burns at my neck Headlong for the wall now, honey Still coming up like a rose Dead still in the garden, waiting for the reveille And the dawn is yet to dry the dew from off my Sunday clothes That mean old sun better rise up soon if it's ever gonna set on me That mean old sun better rise up soon if it's ever gonna set on me
Well I have loved you for so long I have no memory of falling So long now It feels that we have never been apart I hear you have a world away You know for whom you're calling I'd have said this years ago If I'd known where to start Oh now, it still beats steady This heart I handed you for free Should you ever need a thing It won't be hard to find me Standing at the ready With a dance or two still left in me Wager that it won't appear That I've forgot who brought me You've torn the place asunder And you've left the party early Looked at me with tears As if a lost and lonely child Your status suits you well But do not think that you can fool me This polish and reserve Barely hides that you are wild And we've echoed off of barroom walls And buildings down on Main Street Thought the moon would never set on Our back alley room In moments I found quality I thought could not be beaten A thousand person choir Has an affection all its own Oh now, it still beats steady This heart I handed you for free Should you ever need a thing It won't be hard to find me Standing at the ready With a dance or two still left in me Wager that it won't appear That I've forgot who brought me You kissed me in the parking lot I gave you nothing clever Damages and injuries Were far beyond repair Submitted to the shape of things This time it was forever At an old barroom in Tulsa I looked up and you were there Oh now, it still beats steady This heart I handed you for free Should you ever need a thing It won't be hard to find me Standing at the ready With a dance or two still left in me Wager that it won't appear That I've forgot who brought me
Well, the neons were new and robin egg blue And brandin' iron red, they had nothin' on you And the nights were alive in a remodeled dive Sometimes you'd take me home with you And it was later that spring, saw the spark from a ring I never protested, just gathered my things And I settled my rent and onward I went Oh, lonesome feels better in motion Lucille (Lucille) in the flickering light With the moon on your shoulders of pearl-handle white Lucille (Lucille) glad you're doing alright But I wonder who's keepin' the baby tonight Well, I'd walked off the stage to a old dog-eared page Finally worth more than a day labor wage I was checkin' in on a rumor from home Oh, I doubt that there's anything to it And you're still just the same, except for your name I lost all my half-hearted fortune and fame Each night I would find, as if by design Your bonfire that burned in the back of my mind Lucille (Lucille) in the flickering light The moon on your shoulders of pearl-handle white Lucille (Lucille) glad you're doing alright I wonder who's keepin' the baby tonight Get out of town, turn the radio down The window's wide open and you've got your hands on the wheel Lucille (Lucille) in the flickering light The moon on your shoulders of pearl-handle white Lucille (Lucille) glad you're doing alright I wonder who's keepin' the baby tonight
Ran my heart through a chipping mill Sold my soul for rock 'n' roll Gave away all that I could steal But I always kept the best for you I always kept the best for you Drank my way through a hurricane Thinking 'bout your wedding ring Done a lot of real dumb things But I always kept the best for you I always kept the best for you Well I should've seen it From million miles away We are star dust brought to life None of us were meant to stay One thing about it I'll meet you at the gate I always kept the best for you I always kept the best for you There's a moment when time stands still Day breaks at the top of the hill Backstrap from the morning kill I always kept the best for you I always kept the best for you Lines got distorted But the message is the same We were howling at a ghost without a name Despite what's reported My love for you remains I always kept the best for you I always kept the best for you Well ran my heart through a chipping mill Sold my soul for rock 'n' roll Gave away all that I could steal I always kept the best for you
Early fall descended on the dry back country Aspens It could be any time now that the bulls start bugling I watched the pack mule panniers, see the loads are riding even Is it in my mind or did I finally hear one sing? It's been ten years since I first came to the mountains with my father A half pint in each saddle bag and stars in both my eyes I don't miss the taste of liquor or really anything about it But the temporary shelter was a welcome compromise Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open ended prayer Holding out for more than breaking even I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standing there The bull had come in tight and he was screaming in dark timber I could see his brown eyes moving, hear him breathing as he wheeled But tomorrow full of promise I just lived there in the moment Hunted back door camp for enough grouse to make a meal Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open ended prayer Holding out for more than breaking even Well, I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standing there Oh friend, I'm gonna ride out of the rut I'm in A little elevation and an open ended prayer Holding out for more than breaking even I've come back to the mountains and they're all still standing there
With a midnight sky and your big brown eyes, did you stumble on a pearl? Wake me from a thousand-meter stare With a halo hanging just a little too heavy and another evening's curls Mixed up with the morning in your hair Like a country girl who came across a cat out in the rain Like a country girl, you played it true to form Gonna lay a little pity on a prodigal son who parted with his name A little shelter for a stray out in a storm You can try to put the past behind It's on your clothes like burning pine Is it gin or turpentine you keep in your canteen? If pressure makes a diamond, babe, I still might come out clean In the simplе solitary joy of temporary comfort Well, I closed my еyes and felt I'd slept a hundred thousand years Awaking I would disregard the terms of my surrender Took every bad fork in the road and look who's standing here We were victims of eternal love for almost half a morning Said I know you can't go home again, but tell me where you land Oh, here's to yet another chance you get to be reborn And here's to greener, higher hills to make your final stand You can try to put the past behind It's on your clothes like burning pine Is it gin or turpentine, you keep in your canteen? If pressure makes a diamond, babe, I still might come out clean For a walking ghost, that southern coast was a lawless piece of heaven There were bayou dives and oyster knives and liquor for to drown In the Q beam lights and rooster fights and months I don't remember My winning hand went busted, and my luck was winding down In the southeast Texas setting sun, I sit surveying damaged done We wish you luck and fortune, hon, we're closing in an hour Backed up to the Trinity with no more road to run No longer can I wander all alone on my own power And try to put the past behind, perhaps it's only in your mind They close the doors at nine at Channel Marker 17 If pressure makes a diamond, babe, I still might come out clean Tejanos curse in Spanish and a Cajun eyes the weather There's black mud on the belly of the yellow colt I ride Never thought I'd catch myself so calm out in the open As a gulf storm deals in bucket loads and hits from every side
Well, I sure take it with me wherever I go And you might like to see it, but it never does show Like the wind in the valley that never does blow Like the grass in the back you never did mow It's a black sky formin' on the ridge It's a woman waitin', standin' on the bridge It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge It's everything you do and nothin' that you did Well, you might see me drivin' on the wrong side of town And you might see me shinin' when the rain's come down Likе a diamond that's hidin' in the lost and found Like a coon that's runnin' from a red bonе hound It's a black sky formin' on the ridge It's a woman waitin', standin' on the bridge It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge It's everything you do and nothin' that you did Well, the wood keeps burnin' in the old wood stove And the cows keep goin' where they done been drove And the light keeps glowin' in Dead Man's Cove And a loom keeps spinnin' where the weave gets wove It's a black sky formin' on the ridge It's a woman waitin' standin' on the bridge It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge It's everything you do and nothin' that you did
You're such a sight in dashboard light You're an old-forgotten photograph in shades of black and white Don't it feel alright? Well, we got all night Ah, your daddy's gone to Kingston, bettin' on a rooster fight Oh, bottoms up now, darlin', let's get on back to town Well, the bottoms aren't the kinda place you need to hang around Let's get on back to town Let's get on back to town And he's full of pride in a double wide Got the house and seven acres after his grand-daddy died And it's how you've been, won't you come on in? Pull you up a stool, it's good to see you all again Oh, bottoms up now, darlin', let's get on back to town Well, the bottoms aren't the kinda place you need to hang around Lеt's get on back to town Let's get on back to town It's a coal black sky and thе coonhounds cry The distant hunters shine their lights as they go passin' by And they're moving east, through the bodark trees Oh, your old man would kill us both if he caught you here with me Oh, bottoms up now, darlin', let's get on back to town Well, the bottoms aren't the kinda place you need to hang around Let's get on back to town Let's get on back to town
One, two One, two, ready, go Taxpayer, soothsayer, team player, buddy, what do you need? Empty page on an endless stage, and all I know is all I read from you It's a whirlwind, stuck in the middle, just looking to my shoes I got three more days on the road now, honey, gotta help me make it home to you Dream-maker, leg-shaker, heart-breaker, baby, I'm just a man Runnin' wild with the eyes of a child, they take what they give, they give all they can Joker's wild, flies to the top just to come down blue I got three more days on the road now, honey, gotta help me make it home to you Show's over, crowd's leavin', quit deceivin', just one more song Break it down, take it to the next town, I like the company, but the drive's too long Learn to love it, livin' my life from 11 to two Three more days on the road now, honey, gotta help me make it home to you Learn to love it, livin' my life from 11 to two Three more days on the road now, honey, gotta help me make it home to you
Don't you think I know you don't want me anymore? Now you've turned off to me, like the closin' of a door When I search your eyes for a sign that you care All I see is goodbyes, and I wish I wasn't there Won't you give me one more chance to make it with you? Forget about the bad we had, I don't believe we're through, honey Come and lie with me, like the way you used to do You're the only thing I've got to hold on to Thought I knew all the ways love can go blind Like winter keepin' cold in the heat of summertime Now I feel a part of you is somehow out of tune Something I can't see, like the dark side of the moon Won't you give me one more chance to make it with you? Forget about the bad we had, I don't believe we're through, honey Come and lie with me, like the way you used to do You're the only thing I've got to hold on to Won't you give me one more chance to make it with you? Forget about the bad we had, I don't believe we're through Come and lie with me, like the way you used to do You're the only thing I've got to hold on to Won't you give me one more chance to make it with you? Forget about the bad we had, I don't believe we're through Come and lie with me, like the way you used to do You're the only thing I've got to hold on to Won't you give me one more chance to make it with you? Forget about the bad we had, I don't believe we're through Come and lie with me, like the way you used to do You're the only thing I've got to hold on to
There's a mid-July white-tail and velvet Red as your old Chevrolet And I was sixteen when you wrecked it And we were lucky we both walked away And you could day work and scrape out a living The work for which you had been born You were quick with a laugh and forgiving And tide-hard and fast to the horn We had Kelpies and good quarter horses We had wheat pasture yearlings tied down We learned pain was the price of admission And you're never done paying it down Back on the Red River, not hard to remember When your daddy would never get old When I saw the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you On days off, we'd help out our neighbors And we smiled and we sweated for free You'd earn every drink with your labor And I'd sleep on your front seat till three And you'd call it a cure for a snake bite And reach for a fifth of Old Crow Some medicine should get your head right When the symptoms are starting to show Back on the Red River, not hard to remember When your daddy would never get old When I saw the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you And their pick-ups lined up down the driveway Have really been gone for two years I'd be on my third on a good day I'd find my last bottle of beer I guess Saturday started without you I knew before I got the call The red July bucks are in velvet I'll tell you about them this fall Back on the Red River, not hard to remember When your daddy would never get old I'd look at from the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you Got a look at the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you
Well you come out of nowhere like a small town force of nature A greater generation coming back to show its face Long before the world would ask you what you had to offer On some old busted banjo picking out Amazing Grace Find me in the darkness past the bridges I left broken A heart that's cut wide open Like a child that's gone astray Forgive me of my nonsense I'm still out here chasing shadows And searching for a light I never thought would go away Well I don't know a world without you But I'm safe in saying Contrast and the color would have lost their clarity That old piano going out of tune with no one playing A bedroom of a farmhouse built in 1923 Find me in the darkness Past the bridges I left broken Like a heart that's cut wide open Like a child that's gone astray Forgive me of my nonsense I'm still out here chasing shadows And searching for a light I never thought would go away Well I could spend a lifetime making something out of sorrow But I will not trade tomorrow for a pain I feel today So I pull my collar closer and I let the wind blow by me I've got no tears left to cry about a world that's gone away Find me in the darkness Past the bridges I left broken Like a heart cut wide open Like a child that's gone astray Forgive me of my nonsense I'm still out here chasing shadows And searching for a light I never thought would go away
Did you take my love to the heavens above Or to Denver or some mountain city Render my heart with the hand of an artist Hey now, I'm stocked for the drought I'm settled in there ain't no getting out Hey now, don't you know where that leaves me Learning in kind The voice in my mind Ain't never been mine all along Forgiving you is a thing I can do No matter what you have done wrong I relate to it all as a whip-poor-will calls Lovesick and open about it Lonesome for home that I left long ago Finally I did I put in my bid For a life that I kept quietly under my lid Finally I did like a starry eyed kid Learning in kind The voice in my mind Ain't never been mine all along Forgiving you is a thing I can do No matter what you have done wrong At the old county line See logging road signs They run through the country like veins Red oak and hickory and dogwoods and pines Hey now, there's no need to hide No one could find you now not if they tried Hey now, where does that leave me? Learning in kind The voice in my mind Ain't never been mine all along Forgiving you is a thing I can do No matter what you have done wrong
In the bitter honest light of day (I really don't need to be here) There ain't too much left to say (I really don't need to be here) It's all a racket anyway Just tell them what they want to hear now Tell them what they want to hear The walls are painted and cinderblock (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) I make my bed and set my clock (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) A little harder now to talk Tell them what they want to hear now Tell them what they want to hear And I'll be back out, yes I will Spend my money and drink my fill Long and empty hours to kill Ain't no changing me now Ain't no changing me My books and clothes and soul unpacked (Oh the road that led me here) My roommate tells me about Iraq (Oh the road that led me here) They patched him up when he came back I guess I've had it easy I guess I've had it easy I play along and force a smile (Oh the road that led me here) They saw me coming by a mile (Oh the road that led me here) From ruling class to rank and file The burden is the same now The burden is the same I'll be back out, yes I will Spend my money and drink my fill Long and empty hours to kill Ain't no changing me now Ain't no changing me At the risk of sounding cavalier (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) My head and heart and conscience clear (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) I pray deliverance from fear The only thing I need now The only thing I need Well have you looked it in the eye (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) The path is stated not implied (Oh Lord, the road I'm on) The choice is but to do or die Nothing in your way, now Nothing in your way I'll be leaving yes I will The cyclone in my soul be still My heart is full enough to spill How did I get here, now? How did I get here?
The sawmill lights, they shone so bright, you could barely see the stars But we caught a couple falling out on a blanket in the yard You're winding down from a late shift down at the nursing home Feels so good to be up late, pretending that I'm grown Come back from the dark somehow Finally living in the here and now No sign of a thundercloud following you Don't take it personal, the world don't turn around you Hold on to the moment like it's heaven passing through We washed the X's off our hands at the honky-tonk We two-stepped pretty bad and pretended we were drunk Shared cigarettes and talked about what we would do I knew no matter what I did, I'd never be with you Come back from the dark somehow Finally living in the here and now No sign of a thundercloud following you Don't take it personal, the world don't turn around you Hold on to the moment like it's heaven passing through Now we stare up and I say constellations that I know You repeat 'em back, but you don't care, you're only three years old It's nice to see the world the same as someone It feels so good to be up late, pretending that I'm young Come back from the dark somehow Finally living in the here and now No sign of a thundercloud following you Don't take it personal, the world don't turn around you Hold on to the moment like it's heaven passing through Come back from the dark somehow Finally living in the here and now No sign of a thundercloud following you Don't take it personal, the world don't turn around you Hold on to a moment like it's heaven passing through
Have a seat at the table my new dear friend And all I know I'll tell There is no end, no great reward No Heaven high or Hell Your past is a memory soon to be Left to fade in time Your future's just a fever dream A construct of your mind Trade your water in for wine my brother While you're young and free and sound Remember you aren't guaranteed a second time around Looks like you've fallen on some hard times friend Well don't you find it odd? That good folks just like you and me Feel cast aside by God While the Gulf Coast drowns in the wind and rain California catches fire And it's no fault of yours 'nor mine Nor a wrathful angel's choir Trade the water for the wine my brother While you're young and free and sound Remember no one's guaranteed a second time around All you ever needed was some help along To see what's really true I'll teach you all you need to know What the world would keep from you And I won't ask much back in return Just free that from your mind Well the deal is struck The trade is made We'll settle in due time
Feels like the world belongs to you and me We're finally free now baby Did our past just disappear? More than a little bit of history In this big old city Are we out of danger, dear? Scared that you're lying But it's just the start of the evening People can start again and be brand new I'm tired of living in a tragedy I'm tired of feeling empty I didn't have an exit plan There really isn't any strategy Directly behind me Now I've shown up hat in hand Scared that you're lying and it's just the start of the evening People can start again and be brand new I'm gonna try it, who knows, I may start believing That every word you say is true Something doesn't quite add up to me More than something really I can't keep it to myself I got the champagne and the flattery To keep me busy Raise a glass now to your health I'm scared that you're lying and it's just the start of the evening People can start again and be brand new I'm gonna try it, who knows I may start believing Every word you say is true Every word you say is true
I wanna know your loving, I wanna know it true Sundowns and sunrises, waking up with you I've been hopeless under melancholy skies My savior was a mountain girl with lightning in her eyes Ruby Ann, ain't you a daisy in the sunlight of the spring Ruby Ann, you are a beckoning that keeps on calling me Ruby Ann, to you, I promise, promise you my life I'll love you 'til the morning if you hold me through the night I can feel the wind blow, blowing from the south Blowing like the promises that fall out of my mouth I'll tell you something, don't you call my bluff I'd burn this whole town down just to prove I was enough Ruby Ann, ain't you a daisy in the sunrise of the spring Ruby Ann, you are a beckoning that keeps on calling me Ruby Ann, to you, I promise, promise you my life I'll love you 'til the morning if you hold me through the night In the early morning, before the rooster crows I kiss you on the forehead and ride away and go I know you, darling, you're a Colorado high Feeling back at home when I look into your eyes Ruby Ann, ain't you a daisy in the sunrise of the spring Ruby Ann, you are a beckoning that keeps on calling me Ruby Ann, to you, I promise, promise you my life I'll love you 'til the morning if you hold me through the night Ruby Ann, to you, I promise, promise you my life I'll love you 'til the morning if you hold me through the night
When it all went off the rails Come to port with tattered sails Every victory and fail Adds to nothing And you're grateful for the grift For the ticket and the lift Another pint another fifth Down to empty Still I've yet to see, what was advertised to me Well I need something to go my way The whole thing is upside down The lost and never found We're gonna sell it by the pound When it's over Did you dig yourself a hole With your lack of self control? Well if that ain't rock and roll I've never seen it Still I've yet to see, what was advertised to me Well I need something to go my way The gospel from the lie The ears of passers by Pretty sure you ought to try To learn the difference Where the hell did you come from? Are you only playing dumb? What's that tune you made me hum Little darling? Still I've yet to see what was advertised to me Well I need something to go my way Still I've yet to see what was advertised to me Well I need something to go my way
Been there for hours I'm running late See the water towers From the interstate Looks like a party At the Rocky Road When we were younger And our eyes were clear We bet the under On the rear-view mirror The rolling thunder Ringing in our ears Here I am now Torn and tattered All mixed up in the Local crowd I remember when all that mattered Was getting older and leaving town Out in the alley by the parking lot Cheatwood and Linda Out taking shots Not even sneaking In the broad daylight There's folding tables And there's Christmas lights Somebody told me You'd be back tonight Some kid is playing A Woody Guthrie song Here I am now Torn and tattered All mixed up in the Local crowd I remember when all that mattered Was getting older and leaving town Porch swing is hanging From the cottonwood I turned the corner And there you stood Smiled like you used to And all the world's outside I'm mostly happy With the life I chose But here's a window That was painted closed Let's bust it open While the night's still young Here I am now Torn and tattered All mixed up in the Local crowd I remember when all that mattered Was getting older and leaving town
In the old town square The trumpets blow The dawn breaks Through the local drone She fires a look Knocks you outta your shoes And there's nothing that you can do In a hotel room On St. Vincent Street The walls repeat Old hopes and dreams "I like a working man" And he said "I got the workin' man's blues" And there's nothing that you can do The factory roars And the clouds cry A Blue Jay mourns As the evening dies She's laid out long Like she came from the Louvre And there's nothing that you can do To the ancient sea The anchor's tossed The waves crash Cut the Albatross If he walks away at all It'll be black & blue And there's nothing that you can do In the old town square He stands alone They're sweeping up Streets of cobblestone While the accordion plays A soft mournful tune There's nothing you can do No, there's nothing you can do
The name people see beside music you add, playlists you share, and songs you queue in an Online Jukebox. Changing it renames you everywhere you have already been credited. Leave it empty to go back to the name on your Google account.
Takes the place of the picture on your Google account. Square pictures look best; anything else is cropped to the middle and shrunk before it is saved.
Which way the Visible to All / In My Private Jukebox choice starts on every import screen. Every import still shows the choice, so you can go the other way on any one of them.
Choose how Suffering Jukebox selects the next song when Shuffle is on.
Connect a full Spotify Premium account to play matched songs through Spotify — background play and lock-screen controls without uploading MP3s. Discovery and unmatched songs still use YouTube. Spotify Lite or Mini do not work.
You already use one Google account on both sites. Turn this on to keep shuffle preference in sync, and so Analytics can colour listening from each site separately.
Private audio files you upload power Background Play on your phone. They stay on your account only — normal listening still uses YouTube. Everyone gets 500 MB.
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