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Songs: Down, Down, Stream, Runny Eggs, Appetite, DeAnn's Denim, Say Why, Drowning, Santa Fe, Skin, Dry Deserts, Bad News, South and Pine, Cannonball, Slicked Back, Anyways, If They Come Lookin', Rivers and Creeks, Plastic Cigarette, You Can Still Come Home, Aeroplane, Always Willin', Miles, All Good Things Past, Camper, Sundown Girls, With Heaven On Top, Fear and Friday's (Poem), Overtime, Summertime's Close, East Side of Sorrow, Hey Driver (feat. The War and Treaty), Fear and Friday's, Ticking, Holy Roller (feat. Sierra Ferrell), Jake's Piano - Long Island, El Dorado, I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves), Tourniquet, Spotless (feat. The Lumineers), Tradesman, Smaller Acts, Oklahoman Son, Flying or Crying, Hope Again, God Speed, Don't Give up on Me, Doing Fine, Letting Someone Go, Shivers Down Spines, Snow, Man Thats Never Known You, Moon in Oklahoma, Condemned, Sweet DeAnn, Come as You Are, From a Lover's Point of View, Driving, Heading South, Cold Blooded, Mine, Leaving, Codeine Pills (Part One), Anita Part Two, Hopefully, Messed up Kid, Loom, Me and Mine, Old Man, A Boy Like You, Elisabeth, Washington Lilacs, Revival, Late July, Something in the Orange (Z&E's Version), Heavy Eyes, Mine Again, Happy Instead, Right Now the Best, The Outskirts, Younger Years, Cold Damn Vampires, Tishomingo, She's Alright, You Are My Sunshine, Darling, Ninth Cloud, Oklahoma City, Sun to Me, Highway Boys, Whiskey Fever, Billy Stay, Sober Side of Sorry, High Beams, The Good I'll Do, Someday (Maggie's), Poems and Closing Time, From Austin, If She Wants a Cowboy, Corinthians (Proctor's), Open the Gate, Half Grown, No Cure, '68 Fastback, Blue, Morning Time, This Road I Know, Lucky Enough (Poem), Mechanical Bull, The Great American Bar Scene, 28, American Nights, Oak Island, Purple Gas, Boons, The Way Back, Memphis; The Blues (feat. J.R. Carroll), Like Ida, Bass Boat, Better Days (feat. John Mayer), Towers, Sandpaper (feat. Bruce Springsteen), Northern Thunder, Funny Man, Pink Skies (feat. Watchhouse), Bathwater
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We could find a porch to hold us Where we could all scream "Childers" Drink the shit that kills us Until we all remember Who it was when we were younger Before the world took our pride And we were walking in straight lines Tryna find who's good to drive And I've had so many evenings The way I've felt I can't recall Was I jumping from the rafters When my buddies broke my fall? By the end of the night We'd be flying or crying Talking 'bout the times We've spent living towards dying So don't stop running boy But don't be naive 'Cause this world will burn and break you Worse than hearts like ours believe Don't stop dancing girl 'Til it feels right 'Cause we'll be flying or crying By the end of the night You always snuck up in my front seat With some reasons of your own Tryna get a plainsman Drunk and all alone But don't you go falling for And don't you go believing A boy with calloused hands With a mind set on leaving All the moments that we've been through All the memories we've made I don't think God'd be willing To come down here and save Some heathens from the flatlands Who only bitch and moan But if I'm going down Least I'm not going down alone So don't stop running boy But don't be naive 'Cause this world will break and burn you Worse than hearts like ours believe Don't stop dancing girl 'Til it feels right 'Cause we'll be flying or crying By the end of the night
Softness in your voice It reminds me of back home Sing you all the songs That I wrote when I was alone And now I go out drinking With all my shameless friends I've been having trouble Just finding hope again I love it when you're laughing Sprawled out on a picnic chair Restless in my mind dies out When you're right here Finally made it over That damn four year drought I'll thank you and you alone For draggin' my ass out Well, the love that you got Is the love that I need It's in the air of these hills And the blood that I bleed And the love that you gave For the awful shape I'm in Led me through the day So I can find my hope again And I hope we make it out Of all these younger years alive Sittin' under sundowns In about ten years time And I'm just there grinnin' Over the shit that I've been through Saying I've made it over 'Cause the hope I've found in you Well, the love that you got Is the love that I need It's in the air of these hills And the blood that I bleed And the love that you gave For the awful shape I'm in Led me through the day So I can find my hope again Well, the love that you got Is the love that I need It's in the air of these hills And the blood that I bleed And the love that you gave For the awful shape I'm in Led me through the day So I could find my hope again
One, go Well, I wanna send a postcard From the edge of a place I've never been And I wanna make love hard Under the stars in the back of a beat up ol' K-10 And I wanna love a girl who Doesn't worry about the pictures when we kiss Wake up one day and not be so hit-and-miss Lay in bed all day and call that shit pure bliss I'm movin' at God speed Only God and my mama know what I need And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees As I beg You, just to take it easy on me I'm movin' at God speed Well, I wanna see the road melt Into the mountains away as I drive And make it out of this damn town alive And not let the dreams I shoulder die 'Cause I'm movin' at God speed Only God and my mama know what I need And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees As I beg You, just to take it easy on me Well, I wanna die an old man Messed-up stories of me and all my old friends And laugh about how we all thought it won't end How we all wind up where we begin Movin' at God speed Where only God and our mamas know what we need And we feel the hardwood floors on our knees As we beg the world to bring us to our feet 'Cause I'm movin' at God speed Only God and my mama know what I need And I feel the hardwood floors on my knees As I beg You, just to take it easy on me I'm movin' at God speed
I like the way your face looks When you're smiling like a vandal Waking up warm with you in a room That's too cold for us to handle And in this shack I'm living in You don't mind sleeping in Eating food leftover from last night There's plenty of boys that want you, babe But for me, you will crawl, and scratch, and fight We'll go out on Saturday And ride the bronco through the bay Sit and drink cerveza by the shore You'll tell me you love me girl Even if I'm wrecked, lonely, and poor So don't give up on me You don't care where I'm buying Your ring Girls today will drink all day To fall in love with any boy they see You're a sight of utmost beauty Utmost strength and utmost loyalty So I'll sit here and drink all night Talk about the Lord's delight in you If my mama could just see you laugh I know that she could see the shine in you She'd say thanks for taking care Of a baby boy 'cause she can't be here To hug you 'til your little lungs turn blue No, I won't give up on you No, I won't give up on you
Lord, let me tell you about a place where we all used to go Turn down towards Goose Island, keep your eyelids on the road 'Cause there's boys in the hills and they're getting lost tonight And the girls in their cars are all gettin' high And I use to hang around a rowdy crowd out in the Rogers Siren sounds ain't nothing boys as long as you can dodger And I had no idea this damn road got so curvy You said brother this roads straight You're just drunk and it's gettin' early So won't you count 'em up now, count 'em up? All the people that I've let down Won't you round 'em up now, round 'em up? All the liars in this town 'Cause I'm coming home and I'm toeing the line I just hope those boys I used to know Are all doing fine, doing fine And I remember those old trains they made noises like a steam boat And we would throw our rocks at them like some assholes with some high hopes Can't get back those aimless nights that we all claim is ours I guess we'll never die up there with all those ever shining stars So won't you count 'em up now, count 'em up? All the people that I've let down Won't you round 'em up now, round 'em up? All the liars in this town 'Cause I'm coming home and I'm toeing the line I just hope those boys I used to know Are all doing fine, doing fine Lord, let me tell you about a place where we all used to go Turn down towards Goose Island Keep your eyelids on the road
You can't lie to yourself After loving something true And I've never loved a soul Quite the way that I loved you You told me you despise Everything that I've become How we always turn into Everything we're running from I miss the way you followed When you jaywalked in the street How you always talked more trash Than any boy bad mouthing me And the way that the oak creaked When you snuck up from my bed The way that missing someone Will have you seeing steady red Take it slow as you leave me Don't you go home this evening With someone That you're acting like is me And I will try my hardest darling Wait on a star that's falling And I will wait so patiently One thing I have quickly come to know Nothing kills you slower than Letting someone go Take it slow as you leave me Don't you go home this evening With someone You're acting like is me And I will try my hardest darling Wait on a star that's falling And I will wait so desperately One thing I have quickly come to know Nothing kills you slower than Letting someone go You can't lie to yourself After loving something true And I've never loved a soul Quite the way that I loved you You told me you despise Everything that I've become How we always turn into All the things we're running from Take it slow as you leave me Don't you go home this evening With someone That you're acting like is me And I will try my hardest darling Wait on a star that's falling And I will wait so desperately One thing I have quickly come to know Nothing kills you slower than Letting someone go
I was smiling like a boy that just stole shit When you told me you'd hold it My late mama's ring And I'd sneak away at the end of each day To write sonnets for you I could sing It was cold in October When you rolled yourself over To pull on my shoulder to say It took a mighty long time and too much wasted wine To find a man who looks at me this way But I'd fight any roughneck, I'd stop any river If it meant that I could just lie here forever In the grips of a woman Sends shivers down spines Makes you recall your forgotten good times When you wake in the morning To the sound of me snoring My ragged face by your side I pray that you know All my dreams and my hopes Have you holding me the day that I die And I know I'm nothing but I am not bluffing When I say you're meant for the sky 'Cause beauty that holy and a heart so kind Deserves a place it can fly But I'd fight any roughneck I'd stop any river If it meant that I could just lie here forever In the grips of a woman Sends shivers down spines It makes you recall your forgotten good times Yeah, I'd fight any roughneck I'd stop any river If it meant that I could just lie here forever In the grips of a woman Sends shivers down spines It makes you recall your forgotten good times I was smiling like a boy that just stole shit When you told me you'd hold it My late mama's ring And I'd sneak away at the end of each day To write sonnets for you I could sing
Heard you like to go out late at night Dance around the amber of the southern lights Knew you were home by the creak in the floor Your foot silhouette under a bedroom door Driving me home at 7:00 a.m. Hand in mine like a heaven sent hymn Moving and shaking like the ramblers do After getting through the days I never thought I'd get through You bring heaven down to me Course it through my blood as I breathe I bet the angel's jealous of a girl I know She takes my stain and makes me white as snow White as snow I hear Jesus makes sin white as linen Like the sheets that we're in And your teeth when you're grinning Take it away and you give it to God Like the night you dumped out all the liquor I bought There's a way the grass smells on a summer night When it's freshly cut, the moisture's right It's nights like these in the August heat I think the devil's just another boy I can beat You bring heaven down to me Course it through my blood as I breathe I bet the angel's jealous of a girl I know She takes my stain and makes me white as snow White as snow You bring heaven down to me Course it through my blood as I breathe I bet the angel's jealous of a girl I know She takes my stain and makes me white as snow White as snow
I miss the time you loved me when you actually did When I was just a wild haired messed up kid You told me that I smell like Pabst and spirits You'd give anything at all to be anywhere near it You grow so fond of things meant to be free What if letting go is what's killing me Never felt this beat down before Soon as I'm back up I'm coming back for more And I hope you find, whatever it is you need Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me And I pray you go back to Oklahoma So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya Well, I'd have move the mountains roped every damn star To have the slightest idea who you actually are One more moment of you laying right here I wrote you songs that you'll never hear Started out feeling like a damn rebirth 'Til the laughing stops and you lose your worth You question it all when you lie in your bed 'Cause you can't take back any love you give And I hope you find, whatever it is you need Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me And I pray you go back to Oklahoma So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya Well, I hope you find, whatever it is you need Leave it behind, the wreckage of you and me And I pray you go back to Oklahoma So I can head back home and be the man that's never known ya
Well, the curves down your back Remind me of those railroad tracks That we jump and not look back In our youth And the brown in your eyes Reminds me of those morning skies Where the sun would try to hide Behind the roof The way those rivers flow in July Keeps the lakes from going dry It reminds me of what you do to my Angry heart 'Cause you look like Oklahoma And I'll keep you like I stole ya I'll thank God when I hold ya 'Cause it feels right You're the moon in Oklahoma And I'm the night You're the moon in Oklahoma And I'm the night When you say the words you say It reminds me of the days We'd go dancin' downtown Chemicals in our brains When you move the way you move It reminds me of the grain The twists and turns And plays among the plains 'Cause you look like Oklahoma And I'll keep you like I stole ya And I'll thank God when I hold ya 'Cause it feels right You're the moon in Oklahoma And I'm the night You're the moon in Oklahoma And I'm the night Well, you look like Oklahoma And I'll keep you like I stole ya And I'll thank God when I hold ya 'Cause it feels right You're the moon in Oklahoma And I'm the night
I'm condemned I'm condemned Oh, my heart is on the mend Nobody gives a damn about me You can tell me that you love me 'til your little lungs turn blue But I'm always alone when I fall asleep And the girls that walk downtown Are like some stars that fell to Earth They like the veins in my arms, the story in my hurt And the boys they always tell me that my words get 'em by They can tell how much I mean it by the bloodshot in my eye So don't try to make it my fault If you plan on leaving, don't come at all Lord knows no glory in the fall If no one's around at the end of it all I'm condemned I'm condemned Oh, my heart is on the mend Looking for somebody who can save me I'm condemned I'm condemned Just like all my worthless friends Waiting on the wind to set us free Well, the debt that I've been after All the booze and all the laughter I guess that's just what makes us who we are And the people that we lose And the battles that we choose Have you pining for something too damn far So don't try to make it my fault If you plan on leaving, don't come at all Lord knows no glory in the fall If no one's around at the end of it all I'm condemned I'm condemned Oh, my heart is on the mend Nobody gives a damn about me You can tell me that you love me 'til your little lungs turn blue But I'm always alone when I fall asleep So don't try to make it my fault If you plan on leaving, don't come at all Lord knows no glory in the fall If no one's around at the end of it all I'm condemned I'm condemned My heart is on the mend Nobody gives a damn about me You can tell me that you love me 'til your little lungs turn blue But I'm always alone when I fall asleep
(Four, three, two) I need calling you right about now Tell you stories of a pretty fine gal Remind you of the things that your boy's into How he looks and he acts and he talks like you This world's not meant for showin' mercy I got pictures of us that hurt me 'Cause I'm squeezin' you and you're smilin' through That flash up on the wall Sweet DeAnn I miss you so And your words go where I go For reasons I don't know But I'll sing 'em loud and slow So you can hear me from the Heavens And you can draw my thunder down I miss havin' you around But in my heart you're always found And you always sat there with me And you cried every time I played Keen You said your boy would be seen By the masses someday But I don't want the stage I don't want the girls I want back the days You were breathin' in this world Then I think about the moments It's a shame you'll have to miss My wife and I's first kiss And your baby raisin' kids Sweet DeAnn I miss you so And you go wherever I go For reasons I don't know But I'll sing 'em loud and slow So you can hear me from the Heavens And you can call my thunder down I miss havin' you around But in my heart you're always found Sweet DeAnn I miss you so And your words go where I go For reasons I don't know But I'll sing it loud and slow So you can hear me from the Heavens And you can call my thunder down I miss havin' you around But in my heart you're always found
One I've got some good friends with some loose ends That remind me of myself They can drink as much as me And they can smoke me half to hell And by the end of these songs When we bring our asses home They'll all be thankin' God That they're not in this pain alone And this world has been so cruel to me And it's been the same to them But I don't mind sharin' my sweet depression With some boys that act just like me And a girl who does the same I don't know how I got here But I'm glad as hell I came Come as you are, however broken And we will see if we can make you whole again Come as you are with your heart wide open Bridges that you've burned They are still there just floatin' Remember us in our bright eyed days Too young to go inside Sittin' drunk on curbs tryin' to get us ourselves a ride Of the pretty girls who walk down there on Elgin Avenue Oklahoma sure is quiet, but it has itself a view And how am I supposed to know the good times that I'm in If the good is only seen when I'm lookin' back at them The boys are gettin' off work And they're haulin' on back home If I am meant for anything, it's to show you you're not alone Come as you are, however broken And we will see if we can make you whole again Come as you are with your heart wide open Bridges that you've burned They are still there just floatin' I've got some good friends with some loose ends That remind me of myself They can drink as much as me And they can smoke me half to hell And by the end of these songs When we bring our asses home They'll all be thankin' God We're not in this pain alone Come as you are, however broken And we will see if we can make you whole again Come as you are with your heart wide open Bridges that you've burned They are still there just floatin'
You don't have to drink tonight why don't we just get some sleep 'Cause I'm tired of cryin' in driveways as you slur the words you speak I know growin' up has been an evil thing to you Makes you awful hard to love from a lover's point of view And I'll never understand how you wound up in the shape you're in But I'll always be the fool that fell for you in your burnin' skin I'll be prayin' for you and pinin' for you and hopin' you get some rest But from a lover's point of view it's all been hard to watch at best 'Cause from where I'm standin' you got a long climb ahead I'll be there to wipe the vomit when you cannot lift your head Because a lover doesn't leave when times like these get dark I'll be there to watch the sunrise when we reclaim your heart And I'll pick you up downtown when you're grinnin' with a busted lip 'Cause you're not known for backin' down and those boys are known for talkin' shit But now's about the time, look, you really got to decide Are you gonna be a good man to me or die the way you're mother died 'Cause from where I'm standin' you got a long climb ahead I'll be there to wipe the vomit when you cannot lift your head 'Cause a lover doesn't leave when times like these get dark I'll be there to watch the sunrise when we reclaim your heart You don't have to drink tonight why don't we just get some sleep 'Cause I'm tired of cryin' in driveways as you slur the words you speak
You're revvin' and drivin' through the night When those stars line up like they should You've turned into what you've been through but you used to be of good Think of that old photograph, your mom in '89 Your dad laughed said she was like that when she had herself too much wine You'd give anything at all to be anywhere but here Your breathin' only steadies when you start to disappear You wanna be in mountains or smellin' water by the coast But you can't get out of your own mind so you settle in and coast And you just drive to stay alive One more day passes by You just drive through the night 'Til that darkness turns to sky You think about your sister and the mighty heart she has She's been sober for a year now how the time it seems to pass They told you it would go quick but you never tend to listen Don't you miss your mama, boy, hummin' hymnals in the kitchen And you just drive to stay alive And one more day that passes by You just drive through the night 'Til that darkness turns to sky The concrete is the same here as it is in Rogers County I bet those boys are doin' fine runnin' roads without me Don't you miss the days when we'd sneak Jack in football games No one in this town remembers my name anyways So I just drive to stay alive One more day that passes by I just drive through the night 'Til that darkness turns to sky You're revvin' and drivin' through the night When those stars line up like they should You've turned into what you've been through but you used to be of good
He was a boy who was a dreamer and he flew so high and proud In a world full of people out to cut his young ass down No one ever understood a single word, he said And they cast him to the wolves when he wasn't well and fed But boys we've got a riser, a riser in our midst And he will get the last laugh if it's the last thing he did And he used to roll around in that red dirt mud But now he's skipping town and that dreamer's out for blood So don't stop goin', goin' south 'Cause they'll let you play your music real damn loud Don't stop headin', headin' south 'Cause they will understand the words that are pouring from your mouth And that boy, he called his daddy to tell him what he did As the masses screamed the lyrics of a messed up kid And then he told that old man he was never coming back To be cut down again in a town like that And then he surely came to learn people come to watch you fall But he's out to make a name and a fool out of 'em all They'll never understand that boy and his kind 'Cause all they comprehend is a fucking dollar sign So don't stop goin', goin' south 'Cause they'll let you play your music real damn loud Don't stop headin', headin' south 'Cause they will understand the words that are pouring from your mouth Don't stop goin', goin' south 'Cause they'll let you play your music real damn loud Don't stop headin', headin' south They will understand the words that are pouring from your mouth
You can call me when you wake up Your tears smeared from your makeup And we are here in the wake of A fire burning down our love And I feel a filth now I feel it deep within my bones And I walk these city streets Drunk and stumbling all alone And I want so bad To be next to you But there's only so much two hearts can suffer through And I think apart May do us better I'm glad it happened at all Rather than never But you're so cold blooded Ooh, my soul's flooded Water that's as cold as ice You be my muse and I'll be your vice And wouldn't it be something If we could find the way Somewhere in someplace and time We could both be okay I pray you're somewhere pretty And that's staying true 'Til that spitfire fireball drinking girl that I knew But you're so cold blooded Ooh, my soul's flooded Water that's as cold as ice You be my muse and I'll be your vice I pray your somewhere pretty And that's staying true 'Til that spitfire fireball drinking girl that I knew But you're so cold blooded Ooh, my soul's flooded Water that's as cold as ice You be my muse and I'll be your vice
There's a fire burnin' in the basement That I'd only stoke for you Freeze my whole life If you felt warmth all the way through You have given hope Where hope is hard to find Hate the man I am But I'll love him when you're mine When you are mine Though I ain't so angry When you are mine This world don't owe me a thing Since you are mine Oh, Lord can take me And I can die right now With no qualms or questioning Well, there were Pabst cans On the nightstand Where your jewelry's laying now There's times that made me anxious But there is beauty in finding out How the good days come together Like I always said they'd never Back when I was younger And the dark days kept me down When you are mine Though I ain't so angry When you are mine This world don't owe me a thing Since you are mine Oh, Lord can take me And I can die right now With no qualms or questioning Well, there's a fire burning in the basement That'd I'd only stoke for you Freeze my whole life If you felt warmth all the way through You have given hope Where hope is hard to find Hate the man I am But I'll love him when you're mine
It takes hell of a heart to know what a heart really needs And I'm finding out that love ain't what love's cut out to be And if I was not my momma's boy, I'd leave you crying in this car Punch a hole in your damn dashboard and forget the girl you are We've been fighting for so long it'd be a shame to let this go But I'd rather let it lie than hurt a sweet girl I know And it's getting dark now so won't you just stay? And I'll tell you that I love you 'til the leaving goes away 'Til the leaving leaves this house, no we ain't going out 'Til I make some promises I can't keep And I wish I could explain how the toxins in my brain Get me so damn down sometimes I can't speak And you'll try to understand why I can't be a better man But it's hard when I'm yelling at you in the street So if leaving comes to staying, and you walk yourself away Leave knowing that no one could love you more than me And I hope the world don't mind all the simple things I ask Like a porch with good lighting and to hear my lady laugh And I'll act indifferent because I don't wanna leave 'Cause leaving's for a younger man I don't wanna be 'Til the leaving leaves this house, no we ain't going out 'Til I make some promises that I can't keep And I wish I could explain how the toxins in my brain Get me so damn down sometimes I can't speak And you'll try to understand why I can't be a better man But it's hard when I'm yelling at you in the street So if leaving comes to staying, and you walk yourself away Leave knowing that no one could love you more than me
Every time you come to town, we wind up doin' the same thing Gettin' high and runnin' around, blame you tend on placing I remember wakin' up with you, I wish you'd leave me layin' Prayin' God'll get us through the bills we ain't been payin' I hear a lot of people talk about you, I can't hear what they're sayin' You're not used to stickin' around, grown accustomed to the stayin' Every time you come to town, we wind up doin' the same thing Gettin' high and runnin' around, the blame you tend on placin' And are you happy now Anita,, now that you're finally free When you said that you were leavin' and only comin' back for me Cheap booze and codeine pills ain't worth all the losin' Nothin' can come between us, damn a life worth choosin' Cheap booze and codeine pills ain't worth all the losin' Nothin' can come between us, damn a life worth choosin' Daddy says I've lost mind and my mama she be grievin' Your face down in a bathroom stall with vices planned on keepin' Are you happy now Anita? Now that you're finally free When you said that you were leavin' and only comin' back for me Cheap booze and codeine pills ain't worth all the losin' 'Cause nothin' can come between us, damn a life worth choosin' Cheap booze and codeine pills ain't worth all the losin' Nothin' can come between us, damn the life worth choosin' Every time you come to town, we wind up doin' the same thing Gettin' high and running around, the blame you tend on placin'
I barely know if I'll be alive tomorrow Let alone if the people I trust'll stay So all I'll needin' while I'm breathin' is to be content this evenin' Find hope in tomorrow either way And I don't think those city girls are right for me 'Cause I don't fall for shallow pleasantries And the conversation's nice but all the talkin' don't seem right To a soul that prefers silence and the trees 'Cause I got hope in tomorrow and regret in yesterday So if you could find a why to forgive me Then maybe I could find just a piece of peace of mind And carry on tomorrow hopefully Carry on tomorrow hopefully And this world's expectin' so much from the man That get's so wrecked on Saturdays that he can barely stand And I swear to ride this Bronco until the wheels and my heart don't go It's not you're fault if they don't understand 'Cause I got hope in tomorrow and regret in yesterday So if you could find a way to forgive me Then maybe I could find just a little peace of mind And carry on tomorrow hopefully And carry on tomorrow hopefully And I went and talked to DeAnn at the bay And she told me that everything just might be okay I know you're jaded and you're faded and you're pissed off at the world But you can only be the man you are today 'Cause I got hope in tomorrow and regret in yesterday So if you could find a way to forgive me Then maybe I could find just a piece of peace of mind And carry on tomorrow hopefully And carry on tomorrow hopefully
Well, I guess old men on the street prove that time really does fly And I guess pawn shop diamond rings proves that girls love goodbyes And I guess a black dress at a funeral means that life has one sting And I guess a girl like you lovin' me Must mean that angels love anything 'Cause I'm a messed up kid, nothin' to spare I'll turn a saint into a heathen with my hands goin' through your hair I'm a messed up kid with nothin to show Except a girl sayin' she'll be here everywhere I go I'm a messed up kid Well my old man says I'm wild and my mama says I'm reckless And that color in your eyes reminds me off East Texas I'm a messed up kid, nothin' to spare I'll turn a saint into a heathen with my hands goin' through your hair I'm a messed up kid Messed up kid, nothing to show Except a girl sayin' she'll be here everywhere I go I'm a messed up kid And all this bullshit that I've been through And all the hardships I've grown kin to Could take me around, leave me feelin' down But you pick me up every time 'Cause I'm a messed up kid, nothin' to spare I'll turn a saint into a heathen with my hands goin' through your hair I'm a messed up kid with nothin to show Except a girl sayin' she'll be here everywhere I go I'm a messed up kid, nothin' to spare I'll turn a saint into a heathen with my hands goin' through your hair Messed up kid I guess old men on the street prove that time really does fly I guess pawn shop diamond rings proves that girls love goodbyes I'm a messed up kid
How do I make you fall in love with me? And how would I let you know I care? And how would I say that the man you're laying with Is not the man that should be laying there? How would a boy like me put it? A man with some sense probably wouldn't But I don't give a damn, I am not a smart man I'm gonna say some words I shouldn't And I had a dream I was falling And maybe that's a fucked up metaphor Maybe it just means, when I meet you in my dreams Nothing stops me from going through the floor And I know all the bad things about you But I still think you're the purest of our kind I remember being younger with an awful pining hunger For a good that a boy could never find And the fear of a man still left behind So I guess I'll just love you from the window While you're dancing with the charmers in the room And I'll sneak out that door like I have a time before And just let that lost love loom And just let that lost love loom How do I make you fall in love with me? Is it lost in the emptiness of apathy? Should I fight for it like war, should I nail it down to boards Or do I live in a love I'm dying for? And how do I make you fall in love with me? And how do I let you know I care? And how would I say that the man you're laying with Is not the man that should be laying there?
Go ahead and make your money off a poor boy just like me And I'll be pacin' in my room tonight tryna make some old scars bleed Tryna write a plot line that you don't already know 'Bout the weekend crowd, or a reckless boy, or a girl from Ohio They tell me I can sell my soul for a dream and a couple shows I don't think they understand how deep loyalty goes For some boys I got in a barn we built out of pure Douglas fir Badly written songs next to horses' shit is what an Okie boy prefers Go on and tell me what you wanna While me and mine, you'll all be gone You can keep your name and burn the cash Tell 'em I died singin' in these hills if they ask I feel I've lived a thousand lives just to get right where I am Some hurtful words and some Pabst on ice turn a child into a man We started this thing grinnin' boys, I think we've gotta run The radio man came to fuck it up as he boasts about number ones Go on and tell me what you wanna As me and mine, you'll all be gone You can keep your name and burn the cash Tell 'em I died singin' in these hills if they ask Go ahead and make your money off a poor boy just like me And I'll be pacin' in my room tonight tryna make some old scars bleed Tryna write a plot line that you don't already know 'Bout the weekend crowd, or a reckless boy, or a girl from Ohio
I've heard all the stories of you back in your prime How you held all your pride in hands stained And you'd go to work for breadcrumbs and dirt So your kids could stand tall in their name And you'd told me, "Son, there are things to be done When you're older and stronger like me" You give all you have just to be a good dad And you'll die a thousand times just to please An old man, the blood that you bled And the mouths that you fed at your door An old man, the sweat that you pour Proves that they don't make 'em like you no more An old man, the dinners you missed So your daughters could eat at this table An old man, I would give back All the things that you've lacked if I was able I've never seen you smile like you did out in Pineville When the crowd screamed the words of your kid And you told me, "Boy, it's been a long hard road In this life that I've chose for my kin And I wish and I pray I could go back in time So I could raise up this family again" Old man, the blood that you bled And the mouths that you fed at your door Old man, the sweat that you pour Proves that they don't make 'em like you no more An old man, the dinners you've missed So your daughters could eat at this table Old man, I would give back All the things that you've lacked if I was able I've heard all the stories of you back in your prime How you held all your pride in hands stained
Free Free Don't try, man, don't you dare Keep her from livin' her life out there 'Cause she was meant for soaring And you were built for work She likes the way that you smoke cigarettes And you like the way that she never regrets Holdin' onto you like no one ever has If you were the darkness, then she'd be the sun There's some things in life that you cannot outrun The fact that she was meant for so much more than you A boy like you, with your faded tattoos Raspy voice, and a shitty attitude A motorcycle she likes holdin' tight to you on A boy like you, with your stories of shame And all of the reasons she won't have your name If you love that girl, then you've got to set her free Free Free If you were the darkness, then she'd be the sun There's some things in life that you cannot outrun The fact that she was meant for so much more than you A boy like you, with your faded tattoos Raspy voice, and a shitty attitude A motorcycle she likes holdin' tight to you on A boy like you, with your stories of shame And all of the reasons she won't have your name If you love that girl, then you've got to set her free Free Free
You ain't no shrinkin' violet are you? And you love to bat your eyelids, don't you? You know all the times that I'm ashamed And all those words you said, misspoken To all those boys who left you broken Ain't no need for placing any blame 'Cause if it wasn't for you cryin' there In Ohio just last year All the love I got would've been in vain So I'll wake up for work And tug a little on your shirt Hope you know the depths I'd go would be insane For a girl like you Who needs trust but needs freedom Who wants love But would be fine on her own For a girl like you With your daddy's mannerisms And a soft smile Makes the distance less alone In a world that's full of wants and what is next I'll stay here with you, Elisabeth You are here at just the right time At twenty-three years, it's felt a lifetime My momma, she must trust you through and through 'Cause she left me with a girl like you A girl like you Who needs trust but needs freedom Who wants love But would be fine on her own A girl like you With her daddy's mannerisms And a soft smile Makes the distance less alone In a world that's full of wanting what is next I'll stay here with you, Elisabeth You ain't no shrinkin' violet, are you? And you love to bat your eyelids, don't you? You know all the times that I'm ashamed
You look like you've been through hell But came back clean on the other side Lord knows that I didn't treat you well But you'll be treated like a queen Tonight So darlin', won't you lie back And just let an old flame warm you I know I'm not the same me And Lord knows you're not the old you So babe, just pack your things And I swear that we won't come back You're about as pretty as those Washington Lilacs I roll up with a killer in my hand And I'll never claim To be better than I am You look like a killer in that dress So I guess my aim is to be your man So darlin', won't you lie back And just let an old flame warm you I know I'm not the same me And Lord knows you're not the old you So babe, just pack your things And I swear that we won't come back You're about as pretty as those Washington Lilacs So darlin', won't you lie back And just let an old flame warm you I know I'm not the same me And Lord knows you're not the old you So babe, just pack your things And I swear that we won't come back You're about as pretty as those Washington Lilacs
Gather round this table, boys Bring your shame, I'll lose my voice Screaming at the gods about the bad we've done Merle said mama tried but the prison still won Your transgressions are mine as well Anger grows in my bones if you could not tell But I'll find comfort in company Lord forgive us, my boys and me We're having an all night revival Someone call the women and someone steal the bibles For the sake of my survival Baptize me in a bottle of Beam and put Johnny on the vinyl Well the devil can scrap but the Lord has won And I'll talk to him on the rising sun I was coming down but now I'm talking to you 'Cause we're having an all night revival Someone call the women and someone steal the bibles For the sake of my survival Baptize me in a bottle of Beam and put Johnny on the vinyl 'Cause we're having an all night revival Someone call the women and someone steal the bibles For the sake of my survival Baptize me in a bottle of Beam and put Johnny on the vinyl Gather round this table, boys Bring your shame, I'll lose my voice Screaming at the gods about the bad we've done Merle said mama tried but the prison still won
I heard life is what passes when you're too busy living And love is at its finest when times are hard And may your lady always keep you from the vices you've been after May the Lord always love you where you are I'm heading down the road, I guess Another good time I'll regret But I wish that I was coming home to you Late July, oh, my, all in good time Praying that my girl is fine Sleeping in while rain falls on the roof I hope your sunsets always bleed red And your family's always well fed And the song stuck in your head Plays all night Heading down the road, I guess Another good time I'll regret But I wish that I was coming home to you Late July, oh, my, all in good time Praying that my girl is fine Sleeping in while rain falls on the roof Heading down the road, I guess Another good time I'll regret But I wish that I was coming home to you Late July, oh, my, all in good time Praying that my girl is fine Sleeping in while rain falls on the roof
It'll be fine by dusk light, I'm tellin' you, baby These things eat at your bones and drive your young mind crazy But when you place your head between my collar and jaw I don't know much, but there's no weight at all And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't 'Cause if I say I miss you, I know that you won't But I miss you in the mornings when I see the sun Somethin' in the orange tells me we're not done To you, I'm just a man, to me, you're all I am Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells me you're never comin' home If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way The orange touches all things around The grass trees and dew, how I just hate you Please turn those headlights around I need to hear you say you've been waitin' all night There's orange dancin' in your eyes from bulb light Your voice only trembles when you try to speak Take me back to us dancin', this wood used to creak To you, I'm just a man, to me, you're all I am Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells me you're never comin' home If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way The orange touches all things around The grass trees and dew, how I just hate you Please turn those headlights around To you, I'm just a man, to me, you're all I am Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells me you're never comin' home If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way The orange touches all things around The grass, trees, and dew, how I just hate you Please turn those headlights around Please turn those headlights around
Remember when David dashed A 12 pack of Budweiser heavy for the road? Two kids in the back drunk off their ass Screaming in an old Bronco And I recall what she said That she wanted me dead But there ain't no grave deep enough Remember all the nights we had? You said it, "Ain't so bad" Keep those heavy eyes looking up Remember when Mary brought her own Jane? Lucas thought he was gonna die The stars started falling out of a night cloud From a clear Midwestern sky I recall what she said Screaming that the sky is red Burning to a younger man's mind Remember all the days we had? I'd say it ain't so bad Keep those heavy eyes soft and kind Oh when I'm old I will recall all the nights we spent outlaws It's getting cold but that sun is cresting And heavy eyes ain't born for resting Who's gonna drive us home? The boys and me are walking staggered vision blurred One thing you'll come to know The boys back home live for things like dead man's curve I recall what he said He'd rather be gone and dead Than livin' like those sad folks in town I can't take this soul with me If I go, I'm goin' quickly Keep those heavy eyes free and proud Oh when I'm old I will recall all the nights we spent outlaws It's getting cold but that sun is cresting And heavy eyes ain't born for resting Oh when I'm old I will recall all the nights we spent outlaws It's getting cold but the sun in cresting And heavy eyes ain't born for resting
You are mine again Every mistake that you make All the people that you save Took a little piece of you with them You are mine again And I'm so damn glad you're here Talkin' strong, sober, and clear Like you couldn't back then How many sad songs it'd take To get your stubborn ass awake? What finally got you rising from your bed? Was it the sunset on her cheeks Leadin' down to a delicate collar bow Or the judgement of your mind when you're alone? Mine again, fondest friend, where the hell you been? I been struggling to get back to you And if you fight all night, I'm sure you'll gain the guts to try To get past the things that you been through 'Cause no one plays it cool quite the way you do All those tires you got still turnin' Is that spear you had still burnin'? Do you still talk that shit the way you did before? All the woman, and the wages, and the wars that I been wagin' I just don't feel like fightin' anymore Mine again, fondest friend, where the hell you been? I've been strugglin' to get back to you And if you fight all night, I'm sure you'll gain the guts to try To get past the things that you been through 'Cause no one plays it cool quite the way you do Mine again So head back home and be who you know you can Mine again So don't be so cruel and play God with all his plans Well, I am mine again Every mistake that I make And I ain't ashamed to say who the hell I am 'Cause I am mine again And I'm so damn glad I'm here Talkin' strong, sober, and clear like I couldn't back then
Well, I've been pacing this room for 40 hours Crawling up the walls and trying not to call And I saw you walking in a supermarket aisle I didn't say a word 'cause you had the biggest smile And I've been thinking of you in the morning time You woke me up so soft, I forgot the world ain't kind I'd pull you in and you'd kiss me through a grin And you'd say you missed me when you were busy sleeping But what if I said, happy instead Is the way that I reckon it should be? And if you'd call, you'd say that you're okay And I'd be wishing I was there 'Cause you're happy instead, happy instead And I've been dreaming of the life we woulda had Happy at times but mostly just mad Maybe it'll worked out, maybe it'd been fine But, every day your smile ain't showing seems a waste of time So what if I said, happy instead Is the way that I reckon it should be? And if you'd call, you'd say that you're okay And I'd be wishing I was there 'Cause you're happy instead, happy instead And it's been ten years, I haven't called you once But you called last night and my child up and jumped He asked who you were and you did the same Handed me the phone and I couldn't recall your name What if I said, happy instead Is the way that I reckon I should be? And if you'd call, you'll hear that I was okay And you'd be wishing you was there 'Cause I'm happy instead, happy instead Oh, I'm happy instead Happy instead What if I said, happy instead Is the way that I reckon I should be? And if you call, you'd hear that I'm okay And you'd be wishing you was there 'Cause I'm happy instead
(Okay, one take, one take) This whole world's always waiting on tomorrow Itching, fiending for whatever happens next But what if I told you they're all lying And I love you for who you are right now, the best Everyone thinks they're going the wrong way But they're looking at their maps all wrong 'Cause everywhere somewhere to someone And in a rush, you cannot dance to smooth slow songs So, I'm gonna slow on down, someway, somehow Today ain't different from the rest And the you that I pine for, oh, the you that I need Oh, the you of right now is the best This hating heart healed by the hopeful And I think I got a song that you'll like It's awfully long and such a throatful But it's perfect for a night like tonight About you on the coast in water Those wild waves crash cross your skin One of those days you miss already And it ain't even have the damn chance to end And I think grandfather's gone crazy He keeps rambling on about way back when Bragging 'bout grandma and war times All the friends that he's lost once again So I'm gonna slow on down, someway, somehow Today ain't different from the rest Oh, the you that I pine for, the you that I need Oh, the you of right now is the best
Well, I want a home on the outskirts of town Come around sundown to hear the sound Kids and the crickets under pinkish skies Swing on by 'cause we're drinking tonight Well, in my mind, trees line the drive There's a kind, loving lady, belly laughing inside And in the morning while we're drinking brew She'll say, "The city ain't nothing like the outskirts with you" Fireflies and some scheming eyes Will turn this house into a home Then we'll grin in the driveway Hell, your smile outdoes the dawn Hold on, hope is on the way Oh, I swear to God I'll take you to the outskirts one day Well, I want a home on the outskirts of town Where the wind chimes sing to the porch swing crowd June into August, August to May With the sun beating down or the snow in the way The smell of fresh-cut grass in the yard I don't care who you are, drink a fifth, bring your heart You put down the tailgate, I'll put down a tune 'Cause out in the 'skirts, we move and shake with the moon With fireflies and some scheming eyes We'll turn this house into a home Then we'll grin in the driveway Hell, your smile outdoes the dawn Hold on, hope is on the way Oh, I swear to God I'll take you to the outskirts one day Oh, I swear to God I'll take you to the outskirts one day With fireflies and some scheming eyes We'll turn this house into a home Then we'll grin in the driveway Hell, your smile outdoes the dawn Hold on, hope is on the way Oh, I swear to God We'll make it to the outskirts one day Oh, I swear to God We'll make it to the outskirts one day
Two, one-two-three-four Johnny's in the drive and he's drinkin' again Rough crowd downtown, but they're all my friends By the end of the night, I won't recall my name Well my Levi jean queen, I've been here all night, see Someday, I'll take you somewhere it never rains But for right now, I'm tearin' down this town How being young is so painful and strange Deborah's on the bar and she's dancin' again To an old folk song that reminds her of him She ain't gettin' down 'til they carry her away She was his Levi jean queen, but he's long gone now, see At the end of the night, she'll get choked up by his name And she'll try her best just to let him go Well, she's sick and tired of his rough and younger ways Lettin' go, movin' on, keepin' strong and findin' God I find it awfully odd we made it here A few good friends on the longest night, gettin' high until we cry Enjoyin' all the pain of younger years And now I'm drunk and walkin' home all alone, my honey Lookin' for a better place to spend my money Like takin' my Levi jean queen to see the stars Tougher than a lover and leaner than a fighter Looks to me, we got another all-nighter I think God put us exactly where we are Lettin' go, movin' on, keepin' strong and findin' God I find it awfully odd we made it here A few good friends on the longest night, gettin' high until we cry Enjoyin' all the pain of younger years Enjoyin' all the pain of younger years Well, Johnny's in the drive, and he's drinking again Rough crowd downtown but they're all my friends By the end of the night, I won't recall my name
Them damn, cold vampires Been keeping me awake Tryna build an empire Of things that they can take Don't let 'em steal your hope, child Turn it something green Damn you and damn all Your ties to this machine Ties to this machine You moved to the city, girl To make something of yourself But them vampires are groping you Every night on East and 12th So every night you carry A knife and some spray To keep them bloodsuckers at least A four-inch blade away A four-inch blade away Them damn, cold vampires Been keeping me awake Tryna build an empire Of the things that they can take But don't let 'em steal your hope, child Turn it something green So damn you and damn all Your ties to this machine Ties to this machine So you want to be an artist Make something that makes sense But them vampires will take every ounce Of the blood that you can give Never let 'em speak Don't let 'em tell a lie Let them know that you're walking alone To a warm home tonight Them damn, cold vampires Been keeping me awake Tryna build an empire Of things that they can take But don't let 'em steal your hope, child Turn it something green Damn you and damn all Your ties to this machine Ties to this machine But there's hope for the mortal To stay clear and stay true Look out for the vampires That are on the hunt for you 'Cause they're on the hunt for you Them damn, cold vampires Been keeping me awake Tryna build an empire Of things that they can take But don't let 'em steal your hope, child Turn it something green Damn you and damn all Your ties to this machine Ties to this machine Your ties to this machine
Well, I don't think that the city moves slow enough for me So I'm gonna leave now, and I ain't showin' no warnings And I know that mama said her love will always lead me home But I've been followin' this lonely road for way too long So won't you pray for me tonight? I've been headin' down a dark cold road I've been dreamin' of a porch swing with some lights Hopin' I can find myself back home Now I'm breakin' horses out in Tishomingo And every night I lay there and wonder where good men's dreams go And most nights I wonder how far train cars can travel Or how far a man can go before one's truly unraveled So won't you pray for me tonight? I've been headin' down a dark cold road And I've been dreamin' of a porch swing with some lights Hopin' I can find myself back home Don't jump in so quickly You're gonna wind up hurt She's with a new man in New York the last time I heard And I know that mama said her love will always lead me home But I've been followin' a lonely road for way too long So won't you pray for me tonight? I've been headin' down a dark cold road I've been dreamin' of you by my side Prayin' I can get myself back home
Well, the moon in New York tonight was beautiful I wish you were around to see it too I'm so happy I could cry Why'd you'd have to go and die like that It's a shame when people ain't around to see The smiles that they nurture, the laughter they breed These people don't know me And I don't plan on showing what I've seen And I threw up on a corner in Philadelphia She said boy there ain't no real point in helping ya' The only thing you've ever owned were high hopes and a pocket comb You fool So don't act like you know who I am 'Cause the more I explain the less you'll understand Them assholes downtown, are the only ones around that even try So look up tonight The moon she's shining And we'll be aright 'Cause she's still smiling These city lights would blow mamas mind The more I search the less I find But I'm alright 'Cause she's here tonight Oh, she's alright And I still recall the night you're heading home You were fighting so hard, I knew you couldn't be alone Your hand in my hand, I knew I had to be a man from that night on And I'll tell you all these stories one day And we'll laugh like we used to and waste the night away You'll say, "Boy, how I've missed ya, but son, I was with you this whole time" So look up tonight The moon, she's shining And we'll be alright 'Cause she's still smiling These city lights'll blow mama's mind The more I search, the less I find But I'm alright 'Cause she's here tonight Oh, she's alright She's alright Oh, she's alright The moon in New York tonight was beautiful I wish you were around to see it too Well, I'm so down that I could cry, why'd my best friend up and die like that? (Hey, baby, um, I just wanna see what you're doing) (I love you, up the sky, bye)
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear how much I love you So please don't take my sunshine away The other night, dear, as I lay sleepin' I dreamt I held you in my tired arms When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken So I bowed my head and I cried You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know, dear, how much I love you So please don't take my sunshine away I've always loved you, made you happy And nothin' else could come between But now you've left me to love another And you shattered all my dreams You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know, dear, how much I love you So please don't take my sunshine away You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know, dear, how much I love you So please don't take my sunshine away
Won't you hold me through the shakes darlin'? Well, it's fine if you cut and run At first light of a cresting sun Right now I'm feenin' And if you're still in town When my better days roll around We'll heat this ground and dance like two hearts bleedin' The city is so loud and the hotel kicked me out Do you think that she's still proud of lookin' down The world got so confusin' I'm a tool for cheap amusement And they all hate me from here to Tennessee So hold me through the shakes, although it's more than I can take There ain't no choice for damaged boys like me Hold me through the shakes, although its more than you can take And when you wake you'll still be my darling And when you wake I'm yours to take, darling Let me have my bloody knuckles All my nights of dark cold trouble When I was through I was hopin' you might wait for me Laid me out to be Something I don't understand How I am just a man, my darling Now I'm lost in Denver With a postcard I could send ya But I don't know of any good it'd do So I'll photograph the lights 'Cause they remind me of your eyes And pray for you until I untangle this blue But hold me through the shakes, although it's more than I can take There ain't no choice for damaged boys like me Hold me through the shakes, although its more than you can take And when you wake you'll still be my darling When you wake I'm yours to take, darling Well, hold me through the shakes, although it's more than I can take There ain't no choice for damaged boys like me Hold me through the shakes, although its more than you can take And when you wake you'll still be my darling When you wake I'm yours to take, darling
Look at me, so damaged and destroyed With this world's plans and its ploys to take me out I'm on a highway directly to the moon With no plans on stoppin' soon, I'm leavin' town Them Christian's are talkin' so often of coffins No heavens could top this moment now My foot out the window and my flask halfway full I may have to pull over soon I can't afford a motel, but the floorboards'll work well I'll sleep there 'til tomorrow afternoon Then I'll get on the road again, had another chance at fittin' in But fittin' in to kids like me is dyin' But I know when I'm with you, after one shot or 22 And a cigarette, I feel like I'm flyin' Them Christian's are talkin' so often of coffins No Heavens could top this moment now I've searched and I've found to get to that ninth cloud You must trek through some dark and troubled grounds So may we all just once or twice Once in this life, just look around Usually I'm a wreck, but the hard times were just a step To get where I am on this ninth cloud We're screamin', feelin' good again Just passed 3:04 a.m. I'm talkin' like the sun will never rise But the sun will crest the trees and bring this devil to his knees As it outlines the silver in these skies Them Christian's are talkin' so often of coffins No heavens could top this moment now I've searched and I've found to get to that ninth cloud You must trek through some dark and troubled grounds So may we all, just once or twice Once in this life, just look around 'Cause usually I'm a wreck, but the hard times were just a step To get where I am on this ninth cloud Look at me, so damaged and destroyed With this world's plans and its ploys to take me out I'm on a highway directly to the moon With no plans on stoppin' soon, I'm leavin' town
(Four, three, two) Old friend, it's been awhile, and I ain't spoke to you in years And often times boys from this town put wheels down and disappear Mrs. Cole asked about you just three days back And I had no answer to give her I told her that you moved way out West to write some songs And grow a little more bitter The kids talk about you around here like you're some kind of legend I wonder if they know a thousand sunrises ago you were eager just like them? But if you ever decide to bring your pain And your pride back to this side of Oklahoma City There'll be a porch light on from the post you leaned on 'Fore you wound up on the wrong side of pity And often times I pray for you and often times I don't Is it the goodbyes that haunt you, or the fear of new hellos? Won't stay long 'cause you won't stop your running Wait for tomorrow 'til tomorrow's not coming (woo) (All over) Heard you landed in Tulsa while he slipped away Is that the reason your fleeing the fields we hauled hay? Heat this July or the dark last December Look in my eyes and you might remember Weed out in Norman, the Stillwater strip Run far enough boy and you're bound to trip But if you ever decide to bring your pain And your pride back to this side of Oklahoma City There'll be a porch light on from the post you leaned on 'Fore you wound up on the wrong side of pity And often times I pray for you and often times I don't Is it the goodbyes that haunt you, or the fear of new hellos? Never stay long 'cause you won't stop your running Wait for tomorrow 'til tomorrow's not coming (Send it) (woo) (Keep it goin') If you ever decide to bring your pain And your pride back to this side of Oklahoma City There'll be a porch light on from the post you leaned on 'Fore you wound up on the wrong side of pity And often times I pray for you and often times I don't Is it the goodbyes that haunt you, or the fear of new hellos? Never stay long 'cause you won't stop your running Wait for tomorrow 'til tomorrow's not coming
5:34 a.m., I was about to start my day But she layin' there across me, so I stayed anyway Arms tied, legs numb, wrapped around my knee Sweetest of the sunflowers, yeah, you're the sun to me I don't recall what you were wearin' on the first night we met Besides the subtle cloud around you from my last cigarette And you come from a good place with a happy family The only bad you've ever done was to see the good in me But I've been livin', waitin' on the day That the good Lord willin', send you out my way I've seen hard timеs, bad luck, all that in-between Sweetest of the sunflowеrs, yeah, you're the sun to me And I remember being younger and my mother told me the truth Find someone who grows flowers in the darkest parts of you Take heed when things get hard and don't you ever turn around You'll find someone, someday, somewhere that grows you to the clouds And you walked me home that evenin' when I could barely walk And you spoke to me so sweetly on the days I couldn't talk And now I'm seein' clearly and I'm growin' up so free Sweetest of the sunflowers, yeah, you're the sun to me I've been livin', waitin' on the day That the good Lord willin', send you out my way I've seen hard times, bad luck, all that in-between Sweetest of the sunflowers, yeah, you're the sun to me Sweetest of the sunflowers, yeah, you're the sun to me
Highway boys on the road tonight Got a, gig out at the Ryman Finally learned the hard way That all good things take time, my friend Of a playin' lost soul To sing his songs true They make a southern boy cry Turn a northeast man confused And I awoke with a fever Sweatin' oceans again There's mirrors in hotel rooms But I do not recognize them Maybe it's the feelin' That I get in my sleep But all the memories in my mind Are only mine to keep I wanna ride that K-10 to way back when Sleep next to the river, hear it rushin' again Give my no-good soul back to where it belong And do my best to keep truth in songs And do my best to keep truth in songs And all of my old friends miss Havin' me around, but Highways work both ways And I can't stand the liars in town If you need me you can find me Slightly outta control 'Cause highway boys don't rest And don't hang hats till they're home Highway boys on the road tonight Got a, gig out at the Ryman They finally found out the hard way That this sound I got is my mine, man So if you need me, call If you're in love, fall Just know that highways boys Don't stick around at all I wanna ride that K-10 to way back when Sleep next to the river, hear it rushin' again Give my no-good soul back to where it belong And do my best to keep truth in songs And do my best to keep truth in songs Highway boys on the road tonight Got a gig out at the Ryman They finally found out the hard way That this sound I got is my mine, man
I love that one! Four, three, one, two, three, four Got a whiskey drinking fever that I cannot shake And those girls downtown are more than I can take High-waisted Rockies and the sailor's mouths And the boys in the back of the bar scream loud Oh, whiskey river, take me home And I smell like cologne and cigarettes But I ain't found a lady or a bar fight yet I'll wait around just to stir shit up That whiskey river flowing ain't ever enough Oh, whiskey river, take me home 'Cause I'm a heavy-drinking, hard-hitting good ol' boy There ain't a man in this county that can keep me employed Can't stay sober past 11 a.m. My breath smells like my regrets again Oh, whiskey river, take me home I had a woman in Wisconsin and a woman in Maine But they told me that they'd never love a man so insane I head to Oklahoma with the flask and a comb Do my best to find another place I can roam Oh, whiskey river, take me home There was no one in town that would give me a ride So I waited for my heavy drunkenness to subside Stole a pick-up truck from a gas station pump I pray to the Lord for a run of good luck Oh, whiskey river, take me home Yeah And I was 400 miles down Highway 10 All of a sudden, I was arrested again They told me eight years in the county pen Or eight years in the army killing evil men Oh, whiskey river, take me home Now there's sand in my boots, sand in my eyes Sand everywhere that sand can hide How I miss those downtown girls And that whiskey river that ruined my world Oh, Uncle Sam, I wanna go home I had a whiskey drinking fever that I could not shake And those girls downtown were more than I could take The high-waisted Rockies and the sailor's mouths Boys in the back of the bar screaming loud Oh, whiskey river, take me home Oh, whiskey river, I wanna go home That take ripped That take fucking ripped, dude! I l-
Billy won't you stay, we've been up all night Talking 'bout flowers from '65 That print on that dress that you always liked We were young enough to go out and dance at night We'd cross the street and you'd hold my hand Same man now that you were back then Young kids good for nothing but high hoping Broken, starving plastic ring Perfect for eloping Years went by fast, you were so good to me Our children have children, Billy, how could it be But ninety years is nothing to some kids like us So baby, stick around and tell a story just because Billy stay a while Lately, you've been slipping in and out Billy stay a child Tell me 'bout that girl you dreamed about Billy stay a while Tell me of the lovers who once were And Billy stay a child Tell me 'bout that girl and how you loved her Billy don't forget, won't you keep on tryin' I'll keep my ears open to keep from crying You're more handsome now than you were back then And I'm the same girl you fell for when we were kids If love was enough then you'd stay forever But I guess sometimes that the end is better 'Cause love turns to loss as the time goes by You don't know your own name but you know mine Billy stay a while Lately you've been slipping in and out Billy stay a child Tell me 'bout that girl you dreamed about Billy stay a while Tell me of the lovers who once were Billy stay a child Tell me 'bout that girl and how you loved her And you went back home in your sleep last night And I heard you whisper, "I love you, goodbye" But maybe your Heaven's 1965 With my hair in your face on a long summer drive To me you'll never be the times you forgot But all of our good times and flowers the you bought
One, two, three Dark haired girl, too much Jack Daniels I'll be honest right now, I am too drunk to handle Dark brown eyes, and a neck tattoo, I am next to you But I'm a thousand miles away Wildflowers, picked on a hillside, you just let die That's where I learned decay People come, then they stay and they go Someone please let me know, when growin' up grew so old 'Cause the sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to be There's a cigarette rollin' through the tips of clenched teeth I don't need much, just somewhere to sleep Someone please remind me who the hell I used to be The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to sleep The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to be Dark haired girl, summer time crop top In a '89 drop top, rolling eyes at me Is it love, is it lust, or leavin'? Am I awake or dreamin'? The woman I need Wildflowers, and a neck tattoo I am next to you and I ain't ever gonna stay I remember a time I was sober But those days are over, I need a beer to celebrate 'Cause the sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to be There's a cigarette rollin' through the tips of my teeth I don't need much, just somewhere to sleep Someone please remind me who the hell I used to be The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to sleep The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to be 'Cause the sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to sleep There's a cigarette rollin' through the tips of my teeth I don't need much, just somewhere to sleep Someone please remind me who the hell I used to be The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to sleep The sober side of sorry ain't a safe place to be (Ah, everything I had) (That was everything I had)
I got too high on the couch last Sunday, she said it was fine "You worked hard all week and deserve you a little time" And this one, she don't want money, no she wants the stars So tonight I'm taking her out and we're getting ours So come on, get in baby, won't you try me? I've got your favorite song mixing with the high beams If we don't go right now, we'll never know So come on, get in, let's see how far this goes You'll burn down this city with a classy little smile But I swear I like you better when you're dancing under lights in the hall You're as kind as the morning, giving all things light And there's some high beams mixing with your favorite song driving tonight So come on, get in baby, won't you try me? I've got your favorite song mixing with the high beams If we don't leave right now, we'll never know So come on, get in, let's see how far this goes I got too high on the couch last Sunday, she said it was fine "You worked hard all week and deserve you a little time" So come on, get in baby, won't you try me? I've got your favorite song mixing with the high beams If we don't leave right now, we'll never know So come on, get in, let's see how far this goes
Well in you The good I'll do, good I'll do, oh Good I'll do The way the grass smells at night, and you got flames all in your eyes As they reflect the sparkler, and you say we'll never die Grabbed me by the hands, just as callused as I am Say you're proud Well, it's blue jeans in the driveway, and you're walkin' inside sideways The wine always affects you in beautiful kind of ways Ask me if I'm stayin', and I'll say that I'm sleepin' on the floor Won't you tell me that you need me? 'Cause lately I've been needin' Someone to remind me, worth more than just an evenin' I awoke to kitchen smoke, you dancing like God's moved in you before Well in you The good I'll do, good I'll do, oh Good I'll do Well in you I'm new, I'm new, oh How I'm new Well, look in my eyes, I don't wanna hide I've been waitin' for you all damn night Sundress I'll undress with nails on your skin, turnin' white And gettin' high out in Austin, drunk in Tennessee I don't care where I am as long as you're with me Those boys downtown talk so much shit when I leave Well in you The good I'll do, good I'll do, oh Good I'll do 'Cause in you I'm new, I'm new, oh How I'm new The way the grass smells at night, and you got flames all in your eyes As they reflect the sparkler, and you say we'll never die Grabbed me by the hands, just as callused as I am Say you're proud
Someday I'll make it there, I swear To that place that haunts my dreams at night Singing heavenly highway hymns all the way up To that beautiful old countryside Someday I'll find the words to explain All the good times that echo through my mind Your grin in the mornings, the warm southern sun Or seeing in double when those chemicals align Just some kids who needed love, using laughter as their drug Doing their best to tow that hard line Someday I will lie under blue skies In a hay field that holds me like home I'll ask forgiveness with God as my witness For straying so far on my own Today I will hold my head up high Knowing someday comes one day at a time Today there's a sun setting soon as suppers warm Today I've got someday on my mind Someday I'll call up my old friends And we'll catch up with too many beers Pull an all-nighter, sitting around fire For the first time in so many years Someday Someday I will come to my senses Stop sitting on fences in fear And I will realize after all of this time That someday was always just right here Today I will hold my head up high Knowing some day has been here the whole damn time There's a sun set setting, I ain't forgetting The blood that made my heart warm Today I found what I was searching for Someday I will send you a postcard From the place that I'm smiling tonight I sang heavenly highway hymns all the way up To this beautiful warm countryside
I've been overdrinking 'Cause I've been overthinking 'Cause I get so damn anxious at night Chemicals and nicotine Friends ask how you've been You just learn to say you're alright Poems and closing time Oh, sweet love of mine I found it so hard to find truth Poems and closing time Oh, sweet love of mine It'll always just be me and you And those bastards get richer While the poor dig ditches To bury their dreaming in And labor done cheap At five AM Is the reason they're sleeping in Oh, men build churches So their kids find worth in Something bigger than themselves But the uncorruptible Don't exist And you can't buy your way outta Hell Closing time I'm lost again past two Closing time It'll always just be me and you Now I've been overdrinking 'Cause I've been overthinking 'Cause I get so damn anxious at night Chemicals and nicotine Friends ask me how I've been You just learn to say you're alright Poems and closing time Oh, sweet love of mine I found it so hard to find truth Poems and closing time Only true friend of mine It'll always just be me and you So don't try to pay me And don't try to play me As one of your sorry fools Poems and closing time Oh, sweet love of mine In a world that's growing so cruel
There is concrete below me and a sky above so blue I'm finally leaving Austin and I wish it was with you I'm just a sickness and you seem to be the cure How much can a southern girl honestly endure? Remember northwest mountains, they were snow-capped in June You were napping on my arms, on a Sunday afternoon But, babe, I've gotta heal myself from the things I've never felt Repression is my heaven but I'd rather go through hell It's about time that I left Austin About time, you settled down With a man who doesn't move as quick As the trains rolling through town It's about time that I face The hard times I've let go Love was just an ocean I would drown before I float Do you remember getting drunk On the outskirts of this town? When I gave you all I had, but it still let you down Everyone I've ever loved has either left or died Wish I was born with concrete shoes, but I'm leaving tonight It's about time that I left Austin About time that you settled down With a man who doesn't move as quick As the trains rolling through town About time that I face The hard times I've let go Love was just an ocean I would drown before I float Float Float There's concrete below me and a sky above so blue People ruin people, I don't wanna ruin you I'm just a sickness and you seem to be the cure How much can a southern girl honestly endure? And I'm finally gone from Austin You finally settled down With a man who didn't move as quick As the trains that rolled through town I finally had to face The hard times I've let go If loving you's an ocean I'd have drowned so you could float
It's perfect One, two, three, four Man, I got a song for y'all Interestin' Actual writin' Somethin' y'all ain't never heard of She wants a cowboy, so I just might Find me some boots that fit me right Chew some tobacco, ride me a Bronco On a southern Saturday night I ain't never rode a horse Or worn a cowboy hat But I find me one that fits my head And she won't know any of that I keep walkin' this town Tryna' get me some advice But all the ranch hands around Keep on sayin' they wanna fight And I learned to two step so I can spin her Off her pretty little country feet If she wants a cowboy then I'll be his cowboy As a cowboy can be Find me a horse that I can cover Find me some stars to sleep under Find me a train, I'll hop out west If she wants a cowboy, I'll cowboy the best She wanted a cowboy so I went off Rode me a horse about every day Got pretty good at ranchin' and ridin' But she didn't care anyway Champion buckles, and champion spurs I got everythin' but her Now I'm a cowboy and she wants Nashville What the hell was all this worth Find me a horse that I can cover Find me some stars to sleep under Find me a train, I'll hop out west If she wants Nashville, I'll Nashville the best One more Man, I never heard a song this good So find me a horse that I can cover Find me some stars to sleep under Find me a train, I'll hop out west If she wants a cowboy, I'll cowboy the best Alright boys, I'm leaving for the day, take it easy That was mine, that was it Throw it on the damn radio
Jet trails cut across a Winter County sky That's why I recon Sunday is a good day to die There's a beautiful black gale and then he's waiting there for me Pissed off and raising neck hairs and shooting number three Last night they were pulling pints of pesky Pendleton Snuck away from the fire, slept there with the grass and wind I looked up at Heaven, saw how small I really was I wanna build a house and burn it down just because And you're smirking like an asshole With a cheek full of tobacco In the back of some Bronco In a town you've never been Nothing fun happens after you turn twenty-five If I make it out at all, I pray you're right here by my side And if I'm going down then I'm going down true If I've got anyone to thank, then It'll always be you What the hell am I doing? Who the hell am I? How I'll miss the scripture Oh, Sunday's the day to die And granddad sure was punchy But loved Jesus to his core I wanna die today, so I can learn to live for more Nothing fun happens after you turn twenty-five If I make it out at all, I pray you're right here by my side And if I'm going down then I'm going down true If I've got anyone to thank, then It'll only be you If I've got anyone to thank, then It'll always be you Well, jet trails cut across a Winter County sky That's why I recon Sunday is a good day to die (Alright) (Alright) (Alright, boys)
I heard you died out in Cheyenne With my mother's ring on your hand A note in your pocket said I love you till I die I can hear the bulls are coming to claim what they've been huntin' The son of a cowboy can't claim his daddy's right And my baby, she's been cryin' at the thought of me dyin' She knows there's no stopping a man and his foolish pride So, open the gates, I'm here to prove I'm better than my father was And where he came from, too Open the gates, I'm here to ride To-hell-I-go, with daddy by my side And I ain't never feared nothing that was four legged and buckin' Throw me on a hurricane and I'll ride it to the coast You'll never know that your son came to do what you should've done On a summer day a long time ago, top a bull named To-hell-I-go So, open the gates, I'm here to prove I'm better than my father was And where he came from, too Open the gates, I'm here to ride To-hell-I-go, with daddy by my side Will I die out in Cheyenne with my baby there cryin'? In a belly that's been growin' by the day And I know that my son will do what his father should've done A long, long time ago on a bull named To-hell-I-go So, open the gates, he's here to prove He's better than his father was And where he came from too Open the gates he's here to ride To-hell-I-go's calf The daddy by his side
When I grab you by the hand, you hesitate With the subtle inclination to tell a man straight Your sister was a savior and your mother is a saint Sometimes a woman is the sum of all the things her father ain't And men are just the sum of all the things their mothers did They'll spend their lives searching for the love they had as kids My vices ain't a place to replace a loving home You can't expect a harvest where the field's half grown You can't chose your blood But you can choose to change the chains That chain you down when you was just a child And forgiveness ain't an easy road to go But I know that it's a road worth heading down When I see myself, I see your eyes Reflections nowadays are a calm surprise The older I get, the more I become All the things I swore I'd always run from But I'll raise myself a family and right the wrong Of some imperfect people who were only half grown 'Cause you can't chose your blood But you can choose to change the chains That chain you down when you was just a child And forgiveness ain't an easy road to go But I know that it's a road worth going down When I grab you by the hand, you hesitate With the subtle inclination to tell a man straight Your sister was a savior and your mother is a saint Sometimes a woman is the sum of all the things her father ain't
(One, two, one, two, three, four) Lonely, longin' troubadour, I know that you've been here before But there ain't no cure for a restless man If you came to run from your bad reputation Of sleeping wherever you land What state you in tonight and did you get into a fight? Are you more drunk than you were last week? When I call you on the phone, you are never alone And your jaw's sewn closed when you speak She said, "Run down the road, go where you need to go But I need you to understand" There ain't no home and there is no cure For a no good rambling man Lonely, longin' troubadour, you ain't the boy you were before This world has truly thickened your skin 'Cause everyone you talk to acts like they walked through Hell with you way back when Who are you to say I can't live this way? I was born to be a man of the night Twelve foot tall and I'm living proof That highway boys don't die She said, "Run down the road, go where you need to go But I need you to understand" There ain't no home and there is no cure For a no good rambling man She said, "Run down the road, go where you need to go But I need you to understand" There ain't no home and there is no cure For a no good rambling man
Take my soul, take my heart, tear me apart If I'm good for anything, it's all of this suffering So use me for parts To you, I'm just salvage I ain't ran right in years So drive me, then gut me Deceive and fuck me, then disappear Take all my jokes, and tell them to them And act like you're someone That could be someone worth loving And steal all the good parts you found in me Yeah, you'll sell 'em quick, yeah, you'll sell 'em cheap Hey, you'll give 'em for free But I cleaned all my pistons I'm running on '91 And I'm piecing myself, back off the shelf One by one And now I've got a driver who chooses the high road They don't use me for scraps Or throw my ass back when I hit potholes And I'm flying down freeways, going 117 And a '68 Fastback looks like a hatchback racing me I believe, you cannot tear down What's built up strong now, thankfully Oh, I believe that you cannot tear down What's built up strong now, thankfully And I'm flying down freeways, going 117 And a '68 Fastback looks like a hatchback next to me
Bring me down, beat me blue There ain't a beauty on the planet comin' close to you In the hot shade of summer or a cool, crisp fall I'd rather be ruined by you than be loved at all Well my chest talkin', jay-walkin', knee-high jean queen I've been everywhere, I swear, and you're the finest I've seen Bring me down, beat me blue There ain't a kindness on the planet that compares to you In the dark of the night or the light of day I'll long for you tomorrow as I did today Well my day dreamin', people pleasin', bright on dark days girls I fell hard and I've loved wide, and you're the rarest in the world I've been known to chase endless dreams But in my dreams, it seems I'm only chasin' you Break me, beat me, tear me down And drag my ass all over town I'll whisper you these sonnets 'til I'm blue Oh, I'll whisper you these sonnets 'til I'm blue Bring me down, beat me blue There ain't a Heaven on the planet that saves me like you Hallelujah, go 'til you go on for miles A grown-ass man grinnin' like a child High on the mountain or the valley low Only thing that heals my blues no matter where I go
Well, you in the morning time, reminds me of the summer time And any time that ain't right now seems to be a waste of time The way the grass fills hills with the holler And the sun gives in to the crescent moon The way I'm giving in tomorrow, making love in the afternoon 'Cause when you go down hard, you come up swinging? I fucking hate love but I love you in the evenings I swore you'd be here when I finally woke I love you in the evenings but I fucking hate high hopes Well, you in the morning time, reminds me of a simpler time Cutting grass for cash and gasoline to prove I'm worth your touch and time The way a woman's hands are warfare to a wise man's worn out ways The way I figured out I was worthless when I lost a love that should've stayed 'Cause when you go down hard, you come up swinging? I fucking hate love but I love you in the evenings I swore you'd be here when I finally woke I love you in the evenings but I fucking hate high hopes Well, you in the morning time, reminds me that each day is mine To be grateful for the rising sun sneaking through the window blinds The way you tell me its alright the past has past and right now's arrived You in the morning time, makes me glad I'm still alive
This is a poem I wrote called "This road I Know" There's this flash I get often, a fever dream or a vision of sorts Most times late at night And I haven't found out why, but I know exactly why I'm on this road and I hear gravel underneath me, and I feel it too And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am It's dark, It's really dark And the car is warm, but somehow I can feel how cold the night is I don't know where the road leads, but I know exactly where it ends You see, I keep driving And all I see for the longest while is my headlights, for an eternity it seems And everything is desolate and empty and nothing and hopeless I'm lost, but I know where I'm going I'm safe, I'm warm, I'm driving And I see this small light A dim one, growing brighter and bigger and closer and stronger And the closer I get, the more I see I make out a house with light strewn across it, a porch, and cars Some frosted windshields that haven't been touched for hours I hear a song, and it's faint, I can't make out the name but I know every word I feel my feet first And it's cold, and they're crunching, and it's the sound of driveways And the wind takes my breath with it And then I walk up to this door, and I knock even though I feel like I don't have to And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am And this crack of light widens on this porch underneath me as this door opens And this brown haired girl with the brightest smile I don't know who she is, but I know her so well And behind her, the warmest home I'd ever seen It's orange and comfortable, there's fire and it's bulb lit She says "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you all night, we've missed you" She says to the kindest smirk I'd seen in so long Then she tapers off the sentence with the, with peaceful sound that a lady makes She grabs me on the forearms, pulls softly into the dining room And there's people, and they're happy, and they're content for one I don't know who they are, but I know exactly who they are And we're all standing, and I'm laughing at a joke I'll never hear again I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am And then she tucks her head between my collar as a friend Between my collar and my jaw, and there's no weight at all And I don't know where I am, but there's no weight at all It's laughter and grins and no tomorrow to win And I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am I don't know where I am, but I know exactly where I am
I'd say I've seen some beautiful days I've walked countless coastlines, awoken on mountain tops I've seen death and birth and kissed good lips I don't need a music machine tellin' me what a good story is Matter of fact, I've never asked nothin' from nobody I've taken my motorbike down the Pacific 101 And I have stood atop the Empire State Building with my father I have ridden in fear, although, I was afraid every single time I've learned that every wakin' moment is enough And excess never leads to better things It only piles and piles atop the things That are already abundantly in front of you like breathin' And chasin' and slow dancin' and love makin', fightin' and laughin' I am unhinged, unworthy, and distasteful to mostly everyone I meet However I am loyal to a fault to anyone I find kindness in I do not and will not fear tomorrow because I feel as though today has been enough And I got no hate in my heart for anything, anywhere, or anyone And I think fear and Fridays got an awful lot in common They're overdone and glorified and always leave you wantin' Yeah, I think fear and Fridays got an awful lot in common They're overdone and glorified and they always leave you wantin'
Hey there, darling, won't you love me down? I'm 51 miles out in interstate town I just decided I ain't keeping quiet, and I'm free I lost my family to a bad disease I got a mean, mean gene in my family tree That grows in grandfather, and his daughters, and me, you see? And I wanna stay humble, I wanna stay hungry I wanna hear my father say that he loves me I never gave a shit about being arrogant anyway So hold on tight 'Cause I'll be working overtime They told me that I couldn't, and I shouldn't even try Ever since I was child, been workin' for a while, ovеrtime They said I's a wanna-be cowboy from a cut throat town With tattooеd skin and nobody around "Your songs sound the same, you'll never make a name for yourself" But I been scrapin' by my whole damn life And granddaddy worked a double 'til the day he died Said, "Never let this worlds earthly pride get you down" No matter who you know, no matter what you do I'll become what I deserve when it's all through And you'll be there asking yourself why So hold on tight 'Cause I'll be working overtime They told me that I couldn't, and I shouldn't even try Ever since I was child, been workin' for a while, overtime
Well, I've had cold and humid mornings on City streets and back porches But I ain't never breathed a breath as fresh as you And I've seen children playin' on the coastlines Under the white lines, atop the blue tides But I ain't ever been baptized in water as cool as you And the law don't ever come back here, and I reckon they don't try I just put some beer on ice, let's just dance for a moment or two 'Cause you're the fire of Carolina and Oklahoma too The stars in San Luis ain't burnin' bright as you You'rе the waves crashin' down on the Eastеrn Coast When the day's coolin' off and the summertime's close I lost faith in the world a long time ago We'd always ride those back roads back when you got sick Roll the windows down just for the hell of it You always acted baptized every time we hit the coast Bandana tan line on your forehead So the tourists didn't know You're the fire of Carolina and Oklahoma too And the stars in San Luis ain't burnin' bright as you You're the waves crashin' down on the Eastern Coast When the day's coolin' off and the summertime's close I lost faith in the world a long time ago My blood rushed to the heart, you were my last hope And the law don't ever come back here, and I reckon they don't try I just put some beer on ice And tonight I'm dancin' for two
18 years old, full of hate They shipped me off in a motorcade They said, "Boy, you're gonna fight a war You don't even know what you're fighting for" I lost friends in the August heat At night it was God I'd always meet I said, "Lord, won't you bring me home? I've got women in the west I wanna hold" I lost you in a waiting room After sleepin' there for a week or two Doctor said he did all he could You were the last thing I had that was good So I walked miles on the Tulsa streets Light started beamin' in from the east 6 a.m. and fucked up again Askin' God where the hell he'd been He said the sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow You better pack your bags west Stick out your chest, and then hit the road The sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow Don't give it a reason to follow Let it be, then let it go Let it be, then let it go Heard your brother lost his mind in the city last fall Was it his blood, or his conscious, or the alcohol? Did the Navy do him well or did he wind up sick Like every other brave boy from these run down sticks? Do you ever get tired of singin' songs Like all your pain is just another fucking sing along? If you ever get the time come on home I heard Turnpike's back together and they're writin' songs He said the sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow You better pack your bags west Stick out your chest, and then hit the road The sun's gonna rise tomorrow Somewhere on the east side of sorrow Don't give it a reason to follow Let it be, then let it go Let it be, then let it go
Alright, man, I'm ready when y'all are This is your song, Mike, let's do it Alright, here we go One, two, three, and So take me down a road that's a little bit windy To a place they still put sugar in their iced tea Where the women are fine and the love is fair Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, pull on over, I'm in a fight with God This Carolina shoulder seems the place I'm gettin' off Daddy always told me, "Never make a home on the road While your lady's sneakin' out, and the kids are growin' old" Hey, driver, I've been ridin' this lonely way too long All the love I've had worth givin' was all spent on my songs Hey, driver, the boys are gamblin' with more than just their cards With their bottles and their drugs And their Bibles and their hearts (ooh) So take me down a road that's a little bit windy To a place they still put sugar in their iced tea Where the women are fine and the love is fair Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, I've been feelin' like there's no point at all The Klonopin ain't kicked in, and I missed my sister's call Hey, driver, I'm so tired of the ways of this old world Just drive until the tires melt We'll come back when it's healed (oh) Send me down a road that's a little bit windy To a place they still put sugar in their iced tea Where the women are fine and the love is fair Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere (Michael try to get here) Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere So take me down a road that's a little bit windy To a place they still put sugar in their iced tea Where the women are fine and the love is fair Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere Hey, driver, you can drop me off anywhere
Pluck strings on porches, a poor boys' choir And my blood's at a boil, but there ain't no fire I just love the way the light beams in But I got bad news, I'm fearin' Friday again Chokin' on some bourbon when you roll up Said, "Boy, you gotta face it, you's ain't that tough" There's a house hoppin' on the edge of town I'm revved up, thirsty, and ready to drown I got a fear, dear, that it's gonna end Won't you get angry at me, say you love me again I got a fear dear, that it's a Friday spark You only love me like you mean it when it's after dark We can hide out tonight out where the trees gеt clear Those pleasе-you-eyes are a man's worst fear There's a name saved on your heart's gravestone Saturday's coming, I fear I'm waking alone I got a fear, dear, that it's gonna end Won't you get angry at me, say you love me again I got a fear, dear, that it's a Friday spark You only love me like you mean it when it's after dark I got a fear, dear, that it's gonna end Won't you get angry at me, say you love me again I got a fear, dear, that it's a Friday spark You only love me like you mean it when it's after dark
(So like that?) I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world I love you and I'm willing but I cannot keep you girl Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night The thing about a long road is you can't hold on too tight On wooden floors and coffee cups Stepped on and all used up But I reckon that's what mornings are for And everyone thinks they know me now, in these Closed-minded leave-me towns But I'm too young to even know myself 'Cause wheels running down The interstate Oh, Lord I'll wait Another day 'Cause I ain't close to you This time, ticking, on the interstate And Lord I hate That I ain't close to you And all my friends have moved away Some got jobs and some got saved They talk to me like I'm still that kid The fighting, fiendin' Okie sun The restless, reckless hopeful one Who once was proud of everything he did Do you remember 25? Long legs and loving time Seems like ten lifetimes ago I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world I love you and I'm willing, but I Really have to go Cause wheels running down the interstate Oh, Lord I'll wait Another day 'Cause I ain't close to you This time, ticking, on the interstate I'm fightin' fate And Lord I hate That I ain't close to you I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world I love you and I'm willing, but I cannot keep you girl Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night The thing about high hopes is you can't hold on too tight
I ain't never been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes The greens and browns remind me of a mountainside All the days, it all had to come And all the bad things that I've done I ain't never been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes We can stop for gas on our last trip out of town All these songs about nothing And straight-faced bluffin's got me down 'Cause old dogs bark way too loud And talk shit on the weekend crowd I ain't never been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes Comin' down and comin' up There's a place for good love on the river's edge, darlin' And I know home's not far from here From sundown to sun up There's a place for good rest in my warm arms, honey I found God in your eyes, dear And you're grinnin' like a vandal After swiggin' on a handle of Tito's Lord, I didn't plan this I'm just goin' as far as the wind blows Coastlines to the flatlands Get your rich hands out of our plans I ain't ever been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes Comin' down and comin' up There's a place for good love on the river's edge, darlin' And I know home's not far from here From sundown to sun up There's a place for good love in my warm arms, honey And I found God in your eyes, dear I ain't never been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes The greens and browns remind me of a mountainside All the days that are to come And all the bad shit that I've done I ain't never been a holy roller But I found God in your eyes
I finally quit smoking cigarettes And I don't go downtown drinking 'til it's dawn The best parts of you are here, but you're still gone And Lord, I've been trying to smile like you told me Laugh like the old me, it comes out all wrong The best parts of you are here, but you're still gone And I still tie that double knot The one you taught, that gets caught on the banks The best parts of you are here, but you still ain't I finally quit smoking cigarettes And I don't go downtown drinking 'til it's dawn The best parts of you are here but you're still gone I heard your father got sick of Long Island I've been trying like hell to call My mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why I heard they shut down the old bar we'd go to when we needed rest We'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights You said I was the perfect gentleman You used to hold me by my gentle hands These ain't the hopeful hands you held before And I've been drinking so much lately, it seems a damn double blade 'Cause when I'm drunk I dream you're dancing down the shore I heard your father got sick on Long Island I've been trying like hell to call My mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why I heard they shut down the old bar we'd go to, when we needed rest We'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights I heard your father got sick on Long Island I've been trying like hell to call My mind ain't well and I just can't tell you why I heard they shut down the old bar we'd go to, when we needed rest We'd always stay out too late Tuesday nights
(Three, four) Did you ever make it back to El Dorado? I'd call and ask, but hell if I know If I still got your number or if you care You moved away when you was younger Was it escape or was it hunger? Kansas ain't no place to be a man You used to say you'd settle down With that kind girl from school in town She was gone before you got back home To El Dorado, hell if I know if you're still alive There's a note in the glove box of your drive El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a year And a man I wish was still by my side 17 years old How our grins look scary bravе My mama always said we look so handsome when wе shave You used to say, "If not you, then who?" And you'd go a thousand times or two Now your name's up on a sign in El Dorado drivin' through In El Dorado, hell if I know if you're still alive There's a note in the glove box of your drive El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a year And a man I wish was still by my side You're in every last memory alive And I called last week to talk to my favorite old devil dog They told he had finally headed home
Rotgut whiskey's gonna ease my mind Beach towel rests on the dryin' line Do I remind you of your daddy in his '88 Ford? Labrador hangin' out the passenger door The sand from your hair is blowin' in my eyes Blame it on the beach, grown men don't cry Do you remember that beat down basement couch? I'd sing you my love songs and you'd tell me about How your mama ran off and pawned her ring I remember, I remember everything A cold shoulder at closing time You were begging me to stay 'til the sun rose Strange words come on out Of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke Pictures and passin' time You only smile like that when you're drinking I wish I didn't, but I do Remember every moment on the nights with you You're drinkin' everything to ease your mind But when the hell are you gonna ease mine? You're like concrete feet in the summer heat That burns like hell when two souls meet No, you'll never be the man that you always swore But I'll remember you singin' in that '88 Ford A cold shoulder at closing time You were begging me to stay 'til the sun rose Strange words come on out Of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke Pictures and passin' time You only smile like that when you're drinking I wish I didn't, but I do Remember every moment on the nights with you Cold shoulder at closing time You were begging me to stay 'til the sun rose Strange words come on out Of a grown man's mouth when his mind's broke Pictures and passin' time You only smile like that when you're drinking I wish I didn't, but I do Remember every moment on the nights with you Rotgut whiskey's gonna ease my mind Beach towel rests on the dryin' line Do I remind you of your daddy in my '88 Ford? Labrador hangin' out the passenger door
There's delays on the planes out of Eastern Montana Where you told me you were leavin' from You've been stabbed in the back and the rest of your body Won't you tell me where you're bleedin' from? If you need a tourniquet or if you wanna turn and quit Know that I'll be by your side You bled your whole soul into things you can't control In a world you'll never satisfy I'll bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does You were laughin' last week at somethin' I dreamed of When you finally feel the blood you spill into everybody else I'll tourniquet your toes to the ground Pull you in and hold you tight, love you through the heart of night Spring your kind ass into town You've been playin' your guitar from arenas to the bars Since you were old enough to rhyme a word But your face is gettin' thinner and you're prayin' for the winter And I heard you fucked it up with her I'll bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does You were laughin' last evenin' at somethin' I dreamed of I'll bandage up your body and your bones and your bad days too Take care of the blood that your love runs through I know all the damage that some days in this dark world does She were laughin' last evenin' at somethin' I dreamed of There's delays on the planes out of Eastern Montana Where you told me you were leavin' from You've been stabbed in the back and the rest of your body Won't you tell me where you're bleedin' from
Turn on the TV Act like you don't see me Tell me everything is okay My mother is a saint And told me if I wait Everything meant to be will stay But I ain't a believer And people pleasin' either Fucking telephones have ruined this place Met a man in New York City Told me humans ain't as pretty As a perfect day They'll chase for all their days I ain't spotless, neither is you For once in my life, I'm gonna see it through If you want spotless, I'll always lose I don't want love, lover I want the truth People die a thousand times to get to who they are We were praying to the heavens on a late train car Your heart knows deeper seasons than my eyes ever will I'm a self-destructive landslide, if you wanna be the hill I ain't spotless, neither is you For once in my life, I'm gonna see it through If you wanna leave this, that's okay Everything meant to be is bound to stay Remember jumping in the pool when we was fully clothed in August We were soakin' chokin' smokin' in my old shitty apartment Then they cut off all the lights 'Cause the bills were never paid We were stealing all the power from the neighbors on vacation I ain't spotless, neither is you For once in my life, I'm gonna see it through If you want spotless, I'll always lose You gave me a love, lover you gave me the truth I was alone You were betting on a loser, you were calling my bluff Holding one-another is a never real love You were right there with me I can't stop this, neither can you For once in my life, I'm bound to see it through If want spotless, I'll always lose You gave me a love, lover you gave me the truth
No one on this side of town Knows a good place for a boy to drown They look at me so strange when I talk I wish I was a tradesman Learnin' from some beat down old layman On some hillside they ain't named yet Sleepin' next to mountain fire smoke And everyone lately's scarin' me It's all backdoor deals and therapy The only callous I've grown is in my mind I wish I was a tradesman Playin' with some tuned up tired string band Somewhere out by the badlands Way past closin' time So if you wanna trade, I'd say it's a hard-earned mile Wanna sweat like hell, throw a hammer down And know the old feelin' of a five o'clock smile You know I didn't take no easy way out There's somethin' more that I need Than accolades and sympathy Fatiguin' in the summer heat While they smoke big cigars So give me somethin' I can't fake That rich boys can't manipulate Somethin' real that they can't take 'Cause, Lord, I'm not your star If you wanna trade, I'd say it's a hard-earned mile Wanna sweat like hell, throw a hammer down And know the old feelin' of a five o'clock smile You know I didn't take no easy way out Everyone lately's scarin' me It's all backdoor deals and therapy The only callous I have grown is in my mind
She's got a need to leave you wantin' more She loves hard love and metaphors Leave your shoes off at the door 'Cause dinner's waitin' on you Grand things don't impress her much She's keen to smaller acts She likes honey in her coffee And boys that use their backs Friday afternoon at the Mercury Lounge She loves a Prince song and a live sound Never needs much and sure knows how to dance All the money in the world couldn't make her smile She prefers things that are worthwhile Like small towns, that old style, and smaller acts There ain't no love a man can find You'd feel her in a room if you was blind There ain't a grand thing a man can do She'll only love you for you She's satisfied in the scorchin' summer Like the trees and stars she's layin' under They're fine bein' right where they are Give her a buzz and a beat-down boy She hates bullshit and loves the noise Of a coastal town, the early parts of fall There ain't no love a boy can find You'll feel her in a room if you was blind There ain't a thing a man can do She'll only love you for you There ain't no love a man can find You'll feel her in a room if you was blind There ain't a thing a man can do She'll only love you for you
When I get back to Oklahoma I'll be a little better off than I am right now And you talk so strong, but you can't stand straight How'd you fall for a man I've grown to hate? And I can drive you by where I learned to curse He's got his creased dress whites in an all black hearse Why's the green more green in the east of Eden? Swing on by 'cause I know you ain't eaten Did the city beat your ass like the trash you are? There's still smoke smell in your old fast car You can't hide where you're from With nightcrawler blood on your castin' thumb You can fight and fiend and sell your guns But you'll always be the Oklahoman son You'll always be the Oklahoman son When I get back to Oklahoma I'll be a little better off than I am right now I can't buy her a house like I swore I would When I was a naive and eager child And money can't buy an old friend of mine And money can't buy me back no time You can't hide where you're from With nightcrawler blood on your castin' thumb You can fight and fiend and sell your guns But you'll always be the Oklahoman son You'll always been the Oklahoman son You can't hide where you're from With nightcrawler blood on your castin' thumb You can fight and fiend and sell your guns But you'll always be the Oklahoman son You'll always be the Oklahoman son
If I'm lucky enough I'll see fogs lift with suns as we roll to play a show In Carolina, Oklahoma, or Chicago I'll grow to know the road to home in places far away Wrinkled, bald, and beat to shit, to never waste a day Enough people will hate me that I know I did it right But to never meet a human being that I say that I don't like Let me learn the hard way and cut it close sometimes That use the attic chest where every lesson lies I'll have some kids and teach them that we are all the same Sufferin', smilin', silhouettes of every passin' day The love I have will always be something my friends yearn My memories were never cheap and never easy earned I hope to choke on jack and coke in a bar during a northern winter On a night the band was tight and right as rooftop lights flicker If I'm lucky enough, I'll understand losing someone close I'll clench my teeth on New Year's Eve and try to talk to ghosts I'll stumble through a market on a Sunday day in June Smell the salt and asphalt on a Sunday afternoon I reckon I'd be lucky if I made it half as far To only die on hills that are closest to my heart If I'm lucky enough, notebooks will be strewn across my room Or play catch on green grass with spring time flower bloom If I'm lucky enough, I'll tell the truth every chance I get 'Cause smiles faked to appease another is worth ten regrets If I'm lucky enough, I will get through hard things And they will make me gentle to the ways of the world If I'm lucky enough, I'll have the courage to leave and go Wherever my beatin' heart tells me to go If I'm lucky enough, I'll get high and invite a guitarist over And he'll play sweet notes until a New York City's rooftop sunrises I'll meet some kids in school that still know how to play instruments If I'm lucky enough, I'll make it exactly to where I'm taking this breath now Lay my head upon the Earth and laugh at passing clouds If I'm lucky enough, I'll remember the shaky things we've seen Grab your beer through tears and fears, the great American bar scene
Took a few years to get here brother Greens are greener in the heat of summer Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug Graham and Lucas are having kids while Steve's busy raising his while I climb out a hole I never dug Luckily there's a spot 20 minutes or so We used to get waisted ridin' rodeo, now it's all mechanical bull Are the old ways dead, livin' in my head? There's a smile on a photo catchin' dust In your old apartment Are the old ways dead, livin' in my head? It's all veneer and up from here, so take a rest So I'll set off runnin' like I said I was gonna, and find another rodeo I'm a mechanical bull, throw a quarter and watch me go And I get a little sad in the evenings, knowin' I'll never get a beatin' Like being young and dumb again in this life's long rodeo Maybe I'll move to Texas, let my soul grow bored and restless And learn to rope and ride like Le Gros Maybe I'll learn the mando and to pick a banjo too Ride all night on the highways like Two-Show Are the old ways dead, livin' in my head? There's a smile on a photo, catchin' dust in your old apartment Are the old ways dead, livin' in my head? It's all veneer and up from here, so take a rest It's all veneer and up from here, so take a rest It's all veneer and up from here, so take a rest Took a few years to get here brother Greens are greener in the heat of summer Calmness on this evenin' seems a drug
I lost my money to some dirty old bookie Way up in Philly, he was a bad man But you can't bet your life on the table When you've got yourself a bad hand So I went and got my good friend, Mickey And we made ourselves a bold stand Wound up bleedin' on the bar floor And we don't bet on ball no more Where the bets are tough and bartenders mean The Great American Bar Scene My brother from Tulsa has got himself a warrant But he's on the run-up in Cheyenne They hemmed me up and asked me some questions But I ain't no damn rat, man! Put cuffs on so tight, he started bleedin' From his wrist down through to his right hand Put "State Trooper" on the record machine The Great American Bar Scene Neon lightin' and wooden floors lightly As her feet quietly slide across Tough boys have all came and went She's heaven sent and I'm at a loss So if you've got the time, I've got the quarter And a two-steppin' song called 'Heyyy-Porter' Why's love always feel like a fever dream? In The Great American Bar Scene My heart stays hurtin' and hands stay workin' And I'm still just a sinnin' man I've tried like hell to keep my health Treat others well and understand While life's unfair, uncertain and mean In The Great American Bar Scene
You took a train to the south-side of Boston You showed me where your old man stayed Took twenty-eight years of blood I was lost in To feel loved on my own birthday And I always felt like I was in-between Something like home and somewhere far away But tonight on the West side in a bar out in Brooklyn I saw tears outline your face How lucky are we? It's been a hell of a week But you're all grown now There's smoke seepin' out of your bloody teeth But you're home somehow And I'll be upstairs with the guitar I was given When I was barely fourteen When did McGlinchey's get so crowded? And why are the crowds so damn green? I lost my mind on the streets of the city And maybe I lost all hope too Took 28 years of blood pumping through me To get to this evening with you How lucky are we? It's been a hell of a week But we're all grown now There's smoke seepin' out of the bar down the street But we're home somehow How lucky are we? It's been a hell of a week And we're all grown now There's smoke seepin' out of the bar down the street But we're home somehow You took a train to the south-side of Boston You showed me where your whole heart stayed Took 28 years of blood pumpin' through me To feel loved on my own birthday
Screen door cracked, there's ball game on Man on the porch singin' baritone Tan line leads to that gentle place Between her collarbone and her stone-cold face Dockhand boys all say goodbye To the women that they swear are gonna be their wives They'll be gone by the wintertime And they don't wanna bother with no friend of mine Wet, hot, American nights Shake your body dry under coastline light Wet, hot, American nights We snuck our Fords to the shore and drank a bottle bone-dry We snuck our Fords to the shore and drank a bottle bone-dry Davey got back from his first tour He ain't the same boy that he was before 20's too young to nearly die American boys are a friend of mine Delco Danny cut a deal with the dealer That he met out at the River's Casino He got caught countin' cards, then them spades broke his heart Then the Point Breeze boys broke his nose Heard Mary got that job that she wanted out of town She was better than the sum of all of us, anyhow She still stops by whenever she can She's tougher than my brother with her balled left hand Wet, hot, American nights Shake your body off under coastline light Wet, hot, American nights We snuck our Fords to the shore and drank a bottle bone-dry We snuck our Fords to the shore and drank a bottle bone-dry Screen door cracked, put the ball game on Man on the porch singin' baritone Tan line leads to that gentle place Between her collarbone and her stone-cold face
Rail-Tie worker, I've been layin' ties on coal in the ground But I'm leavin' this evenin' on the same tracks I laid down There's some boys out in Jersey that are calling me out by name I got a reason to believe I ain't glory bound anyway And if you're reading this letter Tell my mother and my brother that I love 'em He's got the better blood of my old man and our cousins But he made a bad deal with some boys out on Oak Island And if he don't pay, they say they're bound to find him But if I find 'em on that island first, the worst is yet to come 'Cause no blood in the mud I was raised in spends life on the run And I went to Jay's tavern, and it happens that them boys were there Recognized his backside from the color of our mother's hair And my brother found another way to make himself a decent little livin' He turned around and found himself a lickin' only blood could give him And I told him I was there to keep him clear of that island He said, "I love you, Mickey, but I found out that I'm them." And I got some bad blood with some blood out on Oak Island And if he stays, I say I am bound to find him But if I find 'em on that island first, the worst is yet to come 'Cause no blood in the mud we was raised in, spends life on the run
I've got plates for Purple Gas Bout the only break I catch But I am not the kind of man To blame the dealer on a losing hand Have a lone star in my eye The darker the sky The brighter it shines Pumpjack cheques and baler twine A ton of grit or maybe it's spite And if I weren't a flatland boy I'd say I have a hill A hill that I will die upon If the climb don't get me killed If there were such heights around here For a guy to lay his pride Maybe I'd rest before I died If I weren't a flatland boy If I weren't a flatland boy I hammer down, hair straight back The World blurs past, tell me hows it that My horizon line's static I guess at least it's a sure bet Was taught to not throw the first fist But if you take a hit-Finish that Son-of-a-bitch In a life having the upper hand's a myth Your only fighting chance is Too stubborn to quit And if I weren't a flatland boy I'd say I have a hill A hill that I will die upon If the climb don't get me killed If there were such heights around here For a guy to lay his pride Maybe I'd rest before I died If I weren't a flatland boy If I weren't a flatland boy Retired rail ties, point-nine wire Neighbor kid on the fencin' pliers Fargo that turns over fine At forty-below if you cuss it right A sly thumb of Rye sometimes Keep a bottle hid with the Bio-Mycin You can dull the edge, you can look ahead But you can't get there It goes on forever Oh it just goes on forever You keep your head down, it goes on forever But I've got plates for Purple Gas I've got plates for Purple Gas
Let me die out in the boons It took me 13 years to bloom They broke up, but he's alright We'll be in town 'til late tonight I'm Dyin' in the boons And I hate a hungry crowd Worst of 'em all talk the loudest I guess I'll die out here With a hammer and a beer Just dyin' in the boons So leave me out of that talk downtown I have found everything I'll ever need Real deep In the boons I met a girl deep in the city She said she don't mind sittin' with me I let my troubles float away I had myself a simple day Just dyin' in the boons And how I miss the quick-stop line They say hello every time No concern for politics Come on home, I'll check for ticks Love me gently in the boons And why does everyone I know Have somewhere else to go? Won't you look up from your hands? Let's be still while we still can Stay a while out in the boons So leave me out of that talk downtown I have found everything I'll ever need Real deep In the boons Let me die out in the boons It took me 13 years to bloom I'm beat up, but I'm alright I'll be in town 'til late tonight Just dyin' in the boons
I saw you in my dreams last night You had a vandal grin framed by a suit and tie You were sayin' you were out here With you breath framed by cocaine and beer Who'da thought she would ruin you And leave your whole damn family in shambles too? I gotta call from your mom months back Sayin' I wish he didn't leave town like that I wish he didn't go out like that Love's gonna bring you home Even God didn't see it comin' No matter where you're at We'll always find the way back We'll always find the way back We'll always find the way back Tokin' poison to some Killers song Your old man's Trans-Am in Kodachrome Bumper sticker to the back right State champs '83 through '85 She's smokin' cigarettes in the kitchen Tom and Jerry's on the front room television She always sat under the oak tree Sayin' God I miss the old me God I miss the old me But loves gonna' bring you home Even God didn't see it comin' No matter where you're at We'll always find the way back We'll always find the way back We'll always find the way back Baseball in the fall with a worn glove The leaves might change, but the roots stuck New shoes still hang on the top wire Sayin', "I don't miss you, but I hate a liar" I saw you in my dreams last night You had a vandal grin framed by a suit and tie Tokin' poison to some Killers song Your old man's Trans-Am in Kodachrome Your old man's Trans-Am in Kodachrome Your old man's Trans-Am in Kodachrome
Rain started falling on the roof that morning, it was early summertime It fogged up the rear window of my '67 300 inline My lungs have been hurting and it's likely my liver's taken a licking too Them Beale Street boys are handy with a clap on four and two The thrill is gone so slow and easy, won't you love me tender? The way you move's a drug, and I'm on a lifelong bender So, rest them tired eyes, and let your dress fall to the ground We're the only ones left who love Otis in this town I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues I saw you coming from a mile away and knew what I'd been missing Felt your touch and lost my mind, I'm full of bad intentions Left my heart in Tulsa, but now I find it where you are If you just ask, I swear, I'll change my ways, it doesn't have to be so hard Dreaming out loud while you smile and run your fingers through my hair From here to the hill of Tennessee, I'd follow you anywhere I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues I need you like Memphis, the blues
When you wake in the mornin', and I'm not by your side Just know that I'm halfway to Dallas I'm stoned out my mind, I'm half-buzzed 'Bout full-time since you left me to die here last August When you make it to Nashville, you can tell by one hat tilt That, that shit just ain't my scene I like out-of-tune guitars and takin' jokes too far And my bartender's extra damn mean So roll where you're rollin' I'll be prayin' you're fine Wherever you're goin' Just stay walkin' that line 'Cause they'll eat and they'll spit you But you ain't their fool They don't know you like Ida Back home on barstools I'm out on the road when I'm goin' I go I make music with all of my friends I miss your silhouette, catchin' coastal sunsets And the sound of that rusty door hinge But that day's bound to come when I finish this run And I'm rollin' right into your arms And that bullshit you see on the late-night TV Is a long way from our beatin' hearts So roll where you're rollin' I'll be prayin' you're fine Wherever you're goin' Stay walkin' that line 'Cause they'll eat and they'll spit you But you ain't their fool They don't know you like Ida Back home on barstools So roll where you're rollin' I'll be prayin' you're fine Wherever you're goin' Stay walkin' that line 'Cause they'll eat and they'll spit you You ain't their fool They don't know you like Ida Barely lastin' on barstools
My old man bought a big bass boat When I think of that summer of hope, I choke 'Cause even if we didn't catch a little bit of somethin' We'd park that boat by the bluff at the day's end I got a need to find trouble when things are alright I pine for pain in the morning light And even with my baby sittin' next to me I'm a self-sabotaging suicide machine And you're goin', goin', goin' 'til the lord calls you home in Your work boots and your worn coveralls And you'll show them, show them, show them With your high collateral loan on That home where your children play with dolls 'Cause I was raised by a woman who was hardly impressed And I carry that shit really deep in my chest 'Cause I ain't ever been one for cheap excuses And apologies have always been a little late or useless But if you give me four minutes and a little bit of time I'll make them old days, an old friend of mine And I can talk to God and I can pray all day But you can't heal somethin' that you never raised And you're goin', goin', goin' on Thanksgiving Day when You're sneakin' off to drink some alcohol And you'll show them, show them, show them While you're kissin' all the knees of Every scrape and every bloody fall My old man bought a big bass boat When I think of that summer of hope, I choke 'Cause even if we didn't catch a little bit of somethin' We'd park that boat by the bluff at the day's end
Don't get angry, listen to the sounds Them good times will find a way back around And I've got the answers, go on and touch my skin Them better days always come back again This life's a boat, boy, it all comes in waves On the radio, her laughter, and sweet mistakes And I wasn't loved well as a younger child So I'll pray these better unstable days, they stay awhile So don't get hateful, Lord, hot damn There's a fire burnin' in the back 40 I'm still findin' out who the hell I am And I'm so tired of wastin' it away Gonna find the time to realize I'm in deep on better days She always told me there'd be times like these With a blue guitar, a city bar, and a streetlight kiss But I've never known quite what I deserve You try so hard and wind up gettin' burned So don't get hateful, Lord, hot damn There's a fire burnin' in the back 40 I'm still findin' out who the hell I am And I'm so tired of wastin' it away Gonna find the time to realize I'm in deep on better days So don't get hateful, Lord, hot damn There's a fire burnin' in the back 40 And I'm tryin' to change the man I am And I'm so tired of wastin' it away Gonna find the time to realize I'm in deep on better days Gonna find the time to realize I'm in deep on better days
Four, three, two, one Play me something gently, I'm across the ocean missin' home There are lights on sparklin' towers that shine dark when seen alone Somewhere there's a mountain that overlooks the sea I wonder if that mountain has got more rock than my band and me And I ain't no victim to a naive boy's dreams But I wish you were here now to see these damned old sparklin' things It's a long road to Heaven (long road) It's a far drop to Hell I pray we outlive this fountain (pray we outlive) I reckon time will tell The stronger folks keep goin' No matter where they've been (no matter where they've been) And there are lights on sparklin' towers That I'll never see again (I'll never see them again) I am not the person that I was yesterday And the things I'm seeing now will never be the same Do you think God's a person or the blinking lights? They reflect in her eyes while she walks these streets at night Do you think God's a person or is He just the sound Of laughter through the walls in a place I haven't found? It's a long road to Heaven (long road) It's a far drop to Hell I pray we outlive this fountain Reckon only time can tell The stronger folks keep goin' No matter where they've been (no matter where they've been) There are lights on sparklin' towers That I'll never see again Do you think God's a person or is He just the sound Of early mornin' creakin' on some floors way out of town? I'm breathin' in a life and my legs are workin' fine Do you think God's a person or the slowly passin' time?
The shape you take when you lay like that Reminds me of a love I've never had If loving's wrong, what's a boy to do? I ain't scared of death, I'm scared of losing you You ain't out of my league, you're out of this planet But dammit if you ain't drilled into my skull Take a trip uptown to clear you out of my mind You're like sandpaper, the more I try, you bind Winter was a drag and spring was a friend I'll love you 'til the summer comes back again They've been tryin' to smooth me out For 27 seasons now For 27 seasons now When I close my eyes, I think of times I could smell and hear that northern thunder Every pine has its time But outgrow the rings of days a-younger I'll be still at the cutting mill Just makin' me a roof that you can hide under Take a trip uptown to clear you out of my mind You're like sandpaper, the more I try, you bind Winter was a drag and spring was a friend I'll love you 'til the summer comes back again They've been tryin' to smooth me out For 27 seasons now For 27 seasons Take a trip uptown to clear you out of my mind You're like sandpaper, the more I try, you bind Winter was a drag, but spring was a friend I'll love you 'til the summer comes back again And they've been tryin' to smooth me out For 27 seasons now For 27 seasons now For 27 seasons now
Lovesick, homesick, sick of the road, too There's a reason all them boys back when sang the blues And please don't ask me how these last years went Mama, I made a million dollars on accident Well, I was supposed to die a military man Chest out too far with a drink in my hand But I've got folks who like hearing me rhyme I think of thunder under metal roofs, all the time Why's everyone acting like they ain't human? Take me back to green grass and knowin' what I's doin' 'Cause I just need a friend right now Sittin' close until the daylight's out It ain't been my week, it ain't been my year And I hate to admit I just need you here So close your eyes, do you think of when you's younger? Won't you rest your mind? Smell that northern thunder So close your eyes, I pray you see those memories The way this life blackens all the things you used to be So close your eyes, do you think when you's younger? Rest your mind and smell that northern thunder Won't you close your eyes? Think of what this used to be The way this life blackens all your younger memories Lovesick, homesick, sick of the road too There's a reason all them boys back when sang the blues
You know that time goes Right out the window And our hearts They beat on borrowed time Pack the car while the creek's runnin' Cast a line with the dawn comin' You know I wanna believe in somethin' Somethin' like you Reckon God is a funny man For puttin' beauty in these ugly hands And I don't quite understand The joke quite yet And it was cold, but I was warmer than I'd ever been I'll get old, but I wish I was younger then I reckon God's gotta be a funny man, I do 'Cause I got you One piece in hot beach sand Make it through to the weekend Shape you take when you sleep in Reckon God is a funny man For puttin' beauty in these ugly hands And it was cold, but I was warmer than I've ever been I'll get old, but I wish I was younger then I reckon God's gotta be a funny man, I do 'Cause I got you You know the time goes Right out the window And our hearts They beat on borrowed time So pack the car while the creek's runnin' We'll cast a line with the dawn comin' You know I wanna believe in somethin' Somethin' like you
The kids are in town for a funeral So, pack the car and dry your eyes I know they got plenty of young blood left in 'em And plenty nights under pink skies You taught 'em to enjoy So, clean the house, clear the drawers Mop the floors, stand tall Like no one's ever been here before or at all And don't you mention all the inches That are scraped on the door frame We all know you tip toed up to 4'1 back in '08 If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful I bet God heard you coming The kids are in town for a funeral And the grass all smells the same as the day you broke your arm swingin' On that kid out on the river You bailed him out, never said a thing about Jesus or the way he's living If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful Bet God heard you coming If you could see 'em now, you'd be proud But you'd think they's yuppies Your funeral was beautiful I bet God heard you coming The kids are in town for a funeral So, pack the car and dry your eyes I know they got of plenty young blood left in 'em And plenty nights under pink skies You taught 'em to enjoy They call your hats, a race to claim Like who gets to ride shotgun Your pocket knife, it went missing I think we know who got that one You used to let her cut the ribbons On all of her own presents It made me nervous, but now I see That we just taught different lessons
Coffee cold this morning You're getting rid of me Got drunk, fell asleep and woke up in Eastern Tennessee Woke up on the wrong side Of a lifelong fight between Who I was, who I am And which one's right Baby's out with the bathwater He ain't got no chance Oklahoma knows the old ya So boy, get up and dance These songs used to free me Now there's nothin' free in this Just 808 beats, what we used to be, and back-door politics Now everyone I knows an outlaw Country to their core But the only outlaw I've known Served in the Corps And I ain't heard "Shake the Frost" In a couple years or more
Bought a house from a man in New York This house had 4 small apartments in it when he bought it in 78 Said he had seen children grow old and elder people dying in each little apartment Said he didn't change the wooden floors for sixteen years 'cause he knew where each scuff came from We talked for a bit and he took me around the corner and told me everything had gone down, down stream from him Like that cold water of his life had gone up his back, down his front, and around his legs And before he could drink any of it, it'd already passed him by I went home after drinkin' with him a bit, made a pallet and a fire on the floor And closed my eyes right there in the middle of one of the coldest nights Manhattan had seen all winter I imagined my dog Jack and me back home, cuttin' through some Oklahoman landscape With greens, moisture, and heat and finding some stream runnin' right there in the clearin' He jumped, chasin' something naturally, and I just let that water run past my shoulders under my neck and down to my feet And down, down stream Every good and bad thing that ever happened to me floating down, down stream They're just floatin', the Tulsa bars and all the throw up in 'em, the ducks we killed, the fights we had The New York 3 a.ms, the piano through my neighbors wall, and the Italian restaurant voices mashin' together through the opposite one My mother's couch that I sang her songs on The African desert heat, runnin' from the police in school, and my father's solemn pride They're just floatin' by, every woman I had ever loved and every man I have ever called a brother The New Year's fireworks and the July 4th's too, every failure and every ugly, little victory Screamin' off the Grand Canyon and hearin' one of my best friends had gotten into a wreck under some cold, dark western sky My sister laughin', the streets of London, and my band playin' sweet notes and a hundred thousand people I took a big gulp and I wondered if all that water led to more streams and those led to some big ocean somewhere Prayed all that suffering and all those belly laughs led to some big ocean somewhere As soon as I took that big gulp, my eyes opened to a fire in that livin' room and the fire Living room and the fire department came and hydrant filthy New And the fire department came and hydrant filthy New York water was goin' up my back, down my front and down, down stream And so are we
I'm not even gonna run with the bulls I'm gonna jump on the motherfucker's back and ride it I might die I'm gonna buy me a real fast car And drive to California where the heartless are Find a diner in the desert, eat some real runny eggs Tear down all the photos that are hung in my head And I'm gonna book me a flight to Pamplona Take a horn to the chest like I'm back in Oklahoma Find lady with some big old Spanish eyes Find out where all my old love lies And I'm gonna play me a show to ten thousand In the middle of the snow in the Colorado mountains Watch my father and my sister and my friends find peace I'll sing the wrong damn song in the wrong damn key But no matter where I go, I pray to always find home Travel round and eat those runny eggs alone In a diner on the edge of California and Nevada Wish I had known the good times back when I had them And I'm gonna walk me the streets of West Village In the middle of the summer with the evening time stillness Watch Nate break his ankle after too many rounds After tearin' Brooklyn to the goddamn ground And I'm gonna talk to God in some church After years, beers, and fears, and too much work Tell him I'm sorry for the way that I am And using his name before saying "damn" And I'm gonna buy me some a real fast car And drive to California where the heartless are How you thought you was a gentleman back when you was young Maybe I'll find Jesus when the morning comes Maybe I'll find Jesus when the morning comes Maybe I'll find Jesus when the morning comes
I've been out, and I've been drinking, why am I always thinking 'Bout things that really matter like, twin towers and satellites Everyone I know got older, told my drunk ass to get sober Settle down and have some kids, be content with all of it But what if I don't want children, to grow up like their father willing To stir shit up and start a fight, work themselves up an appetite Why am I in Northwest Arkansas Playing shows to those who don't care at all With my money bloodied and my belt so tight I've worked myself up an appetite I've been out, and I've been drinking, cutting up my life in sections They say I gotta act my age, shut the fuck up and get on stage The other I pack my bags quickly, toothbrush, combs, and my dogs with me Strong enough to handle this fame and other corny shit 'Cause what if I don't want children, to grow up like their father willing To stir shit up and start a fight, work themselves up an appetite Why am I in Northwest Arkansas Playing shows to those who don't care at all With my money bloodied and my belt on tight I've worked myself up an appetite How I work myself up an appetite What if I don't want children to grow up like their father willing To stir shit up and start a fight, work themselves up an appetite
DeAnn's Denim dress has got a dandelion scent That drifts with her as she rounds the door I saw a photograph, if not from 8 then 10 years back Of a birthday cake with a lit-up 24 And I miss the times I'd drink 'Cause I'd never overthink And I never gave into this lore You ain't Jesus Christ 'cause you don't think twice Sunday, when you pass the liquor store Time changes all you'll see Did you become what your mama wanted you to be And are you strong enough to stay away from family genes Cause DeAnn's Denim was a stubborn thing Cause DeAnn's Denim was a stubborn thing I recall a letter that she sent to me on base When I was out playing patriot She said she was leaving the house, headed out And finally had the nerve for facing it The genes that her daddy left were worked in and vintage Proctor's daddy did the same He said I could change my suit and tie Pray all night to Jesus Christ But he'd belt my ass if I changed my name Cause time changes all you'll see Did she become what her daddy wanted her to be Was she strong enough to stay away from family genes 'Cause sometimes Denim is an ugly thing Well, sometimes Denim is an ugly thing DeAnn's Denim dress has got a dandelion scent That drifts with her as she rounds the door Cleaned out the closet, found some closure When I threw those old blue jeans on the floor I cleaned out the closet, found some closure When I threw those old blue jeans on the floor Cleaned out the closet, found some closure When I threw those old blue jeans on the floor
I spent my last dollar on some courage I could buy 40 ounces of it at some truck stop in Ohio Spent 40 days walking and another 40 high Just for you to give me 40 reasons for goodbye Spent 40 days drying out and 40 days sober Smokin' cigarettes and quotin' Bible verses on the sofa You said, "All's not lost, just an eye for an eye" So, I carried my cross to the bar last night Say why, yeah, say why Yeah, say why, say why I spent my last dollar on some courage I could buy 40 ounces of it before you tell me goodbye Still drove 40 hours and I'd drive 40 more 40 days in the desert just to wind up at your door 40 ounces, 40 minutes, 40 days and 40 ways 40 reasons that you're leaving and 40 more you'll stay Say why, say why Say why No Say why, say why Say why, say why Say why, say why Say why, say why I spent my last dollar on some courage I could buy 40 ounces of it at some truck stop in Ohio Spent 40 days walking and another 40 high Just for you to give me 40 reasons for goodbye
Keep me under the water completely Never wanna learn to swim when You're the one holding me down Drown me deep in the rivers of the valley Let my lungs succumb to Sweet seductive sounds I ain't never been this deep before And the more I sank, Lord, the more I swore From the water line to the ocean floor Drowning's just a lover's chore Sink me into every single secret you're keeping When your heart can't go no longer I'll be there to carry us on There God goes turning creeks into rivers out of white snow As you grin out the window Into our front yard I ain't never been this deep before And the more I sank, Lord, the more I swore From the water line to the ocean floor I say drowning's just a lover's chore Yeah, I say drowning's just a lover's chore Keep me under the water completely Never wanna learn to swim when You're the one holding me down
Call up your mother, tell her that you're all alone With some sky out by Santa Fe, New Mexico Think I'm going to Santa Fe, the type of place you'll know my name My grandma called just yesterday to say she loves the way I was raised Grown so weary of all of this and every day is a precipice It pissed me off and pissed on all the friends I ever made Call up your mother, tell her that you're all alone With some sky out by Santa Fe, New Mexico Hoping, broken, you can find yourself back home Home is broken, drunk and dirty on a desert road Well, I've been to Santa Fe before, drank a million beers at the Matador Sleep in your jeans in the back of your camper 'cause that's all you got to your name Think I'm going to Santa Fe, the type of place you'll know my name Never talk to no one again and never sing another song Call up your mother, tell her that you're all alone With some sky out by Santa Fe, New Mexico Hoping, broken, you can find yourself back home Home is hopeless, drunk and dirty on a desert road Call up your mother, tell her that you're all alone With some sky out by Santa Fe, New Mexico Hoping, broken, you can find yourself back home Home is hopeless, drunk and dirty on a desert road Think I'm going to Santa Fe, the type of place you'll know my name Pissed me off and pissed on all the friends I ever made
How do tattoos take to your skin? Are you walking 'round Tribeca with him? Can you still smell that Wisconsin wind from that late October? And are you gonna make an honest man Out of one that doesn't understand The difference in a one night stand and finding closure? I'm taking a blade to my old tattoos I'm draining the blood between me and you I'm taking a blade to my own skin And I ain't never touching yours again Yeah, I ain't never touching yours again How do tattoos take to your skin? Does your higher ground never sink in? Do you love people just to win when it's over? How do tattoos take to your skin? Do you still talk shit on all your friends? I'm here to take it all to the chin, this time stone-cold sober I'm taking a blade to my old tattoos I'm draining the blood between me and you I'm taking a blade to my own skin And I ain't never touching yours again Yeah, I ain't never touching yours again I'm taking a blade to my old tattoos I'm draining the blood between me and you I'm taking a blade to my own skin And I ain't never touching yours again Yeah, I ain't never touching yours again Yeah, I ain't never touching yours again Yeah, I ain't never touching yours again How do tattoos take to your skin? Are you walking 'round Tribeca with him? Can you still smell that Wisconsin wind from that late October?
Driving out to California, the night I met you, in this bed of mine The wind blowing through all these palm trees, shaking bodies, under napalm skies The kids and all their fucked up virtues, I know it hurts you, when the party dies Would you cross dry deserts babe Would you cut through pines Would you swim up river when I'm surely on your mind And you're always calming me Only in these dreams Waking up the neighbors Screaming in these sweaty sheets I've been on the run for so long I want a sad song, that lasts all night The whites and blues on big wide opens The way I'm coping with passing time Would you cross dry deserts babe Would you cut through pines Would you swim up river when I'm surely on your mind And you're always calming me Only in these dreams Waking up the neighbors Screaming in these sweaty sheets Would you cross dry deserts babe Would you cut through pines Would you swim up river when I'm surely on your mind And you're always calming me Only in these dreams Waking up the neighbors Screaming in these sweaty sheets
Didn't wake up, dead or in jail, some out of town boys, been giving us hell I got some bad news, I woke up missing you My friends are all degenerates but they're all I got The generational story of dropping the plot I heard the cops came, cocky mother fuckers ain't they And ICE is gonna come bust down your door Tried to build a house no one builds no more, but I got a telephone Kids are all scared and all alone The boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling My middle fingers rising and it won't stop showing Got some bad news, fading of our red, white, and blue This lands your land, this lands mine, too Is this all true man, or is it just bad news He said, she said, mirrors and smoke, rights turned red and the lefts All woke, got some bad news, I woke up missing you My friends are all degenerates but they're all I got Everyday on the news someone else is shot I got some bad news, fading of our red, white and blue I served eight years just to be told, that nobody cares And the lands all sold Got some bad news, I woke up missing you This lands your land, this lands mine, too Is this all true man, or is it just bad news Didn't wake up, dead or in jail Some out of town boys, been giving us hell I got some bad news, fading of our red, white and blue
The weather's hot, the sun it shines I used to call a love of mine That's why it is raining in my mind And love and loss and light and strange They all seem the same at night Short and quick and never the same twice But if you could see her now In a New York City gown Dancing with her heels on South and Pine Then you'd know the way it goes, my honey A fucking show for more blood money Another day you're dancing in my mind Another day you're better off not mine The weather's hot, the sun it shines I used to call a love of mine That's why it is raining in my mind But if you could see her now In a New York City gown Dancing with her heels on South and Pine Then you'd know the way it goes, my honey A fucking show for more blood money Another day you're dancing in my mind Another day you're better off not mine
We've come a long way since those Drunk days on backroads, you and your high hopes Always stayed down, you always saw the best in me High in Yosemite, we howled Now I'm driving through Reno, these God damn casinos You always kept God close, 'cept that time you bet it all on black came back to the room with 20 grand And you were smiling like a thief With your cheek tearing teeth, you was praying to Jesus We was running from the police They're using my muses to make fun of me As your face up while your blood sucks from an IV We spent it all on gasoline, PCH to Cannon Beach Laid in the sand and man I have never seen Something more beautiful than you and your cannonball We've come a long way since that, shit band at the Blue Last You said anything other than another fucking cover of only the good die young And you were smiling like a thief With your cheek tearing teeth, you was praying to Jesus We was running from the police They covered all the songs that are best kept alone 'Cause your cannonball sits on Cannon Beach alone They're using my muses to make fun of me As your face up while your blood sucks from an IV And I never thought it'd be you I always thought I'd beat you to the Golden Gates Won't you wait a few hours there by the door? We've all been here before But you stood up on your own, your mom called my telephone Said you've been standing and rambling about gambling And howling out in the night high in Yosemite And you were smiling like a thief With your cheek tearing teeth, you was praying to Jesus We was running from the police They sold off the town we used to call home And your cannonball sits on Cannon Beach alone So call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There are cannonballs falling in the heat of July Call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There's cannonballs falling in the heat of July Call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There's cannonballs falling in the heat of July Call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There's cannonballs falling in the heat of July Call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There's cannonballs falling in the heat of July Call up your brothers, won't you take you a ride There's cannonballs falling in the heat of July
Fell in love with the shotgun in my hands If you were to say I'm honest, it'd be contrarian But I've been working on myself all fall Six beers a week ain't bad, a little boring is all, huh You're so cool in my living room And when you talk trash with your hair slicked back When I get to Hell or Heaven, can I bring my girl? 'Cause she likes romance, good sex, music, and ruling the world I'm gonna start a riot from the edge of my bed 'Cause I still see you in that pool hall in New York in my head Used to know some folks who put it all online But you paint landscapes in the evening time 'Cause you're so cool in my living room And when you talk trash with your hair slicked back When I get to Hell or Heaven, can I bring my girl? 'Cause she likes romance, good sex, music, and ruling the world 'Cause I'm a seventh-generation country boy My father used Redman tobacco bags as baby toys I'm gonna start a riot from the edge of my bed 'Cause I still want you in that pool hall in New York in my head You're so cool in my living room And when you talk trash with your hair slicked back When I get to Hell or Heaven, can I bring my girl? 'Cause she likes romance, good sex, music, and ruling the world You're so cool in my living room And when you talk trash with your hair slicked back When I get to Hell or Heaven, can I bring my girl? 'Cause she likes romance, good sex, music, and ruling the world
One, two, three, four You looked me in the eyes last summer Said you hate all the pain I'm under Told me to play your favorite cover Of "Between the Bars" Been feelin' fuckin' empty lately I wanna go and see the sea But I don't got the gasoline To get that far She said, "Don't stop now Still got that dreamer in your eye Saw you back when you played West Virginia When you were too scared to go on stage But played anyway" You looked me in the eyes last summer Aftеr spendin' all of it inside Undernеath the covers tryna hide From the world outside And I ain't feelin' empty lately I'm gonna go and make them see I'll always have the gasoline To get that far And she said, "If you quit now You'll let those greedy bastards win somehow How the time, it passes How they hate when you feel afraid Then play anyway So don't stop now Still got that dreamer in ya' I saw you back when you played West Virginia When you were too scared to go on stage But played anyway If you quit now You'll let those greedy bastards win somehow How the time, it passes How they hate when you feel afraid But play anyway Anyway" You looked me in the eyes last summer Said you hate the pain I'm under Told me to play your favorite cover Of "Between the Bars"
Well, I'm gonna pick you up in Edna's old pickup truck We'll head down the Red River Throw us a line or two, catch us a brown or blue Get your wife a flathead dinner And Denison boys get meaner just when them trees get greener Soon as you cross them state lines So if they come lookin', tell 'em I'm on the run again Chasin' the sun again out of my mind They come lookin', tell 'em that I died again Crossin' state lines again, wishin' I was home Boys hang around the bend, watch when you're crossin' them They can smell a Sooner from a mile away They sit with six-shooters on their chairs and their coolers And forget them things work both ways .38 caliber leads to a massacre I was a traveler last May I beat him so badly, had to hide out in Jersey With my dog Jack and best friend Ray So if they come lookin', tell 'em I'm on the run again Chasin' the sun again out of my mind If they come lookin', tell 'em that I died again Crossin' state lines again, prayin' for more time I'm gonna pick you up in Edna's old pickup truck We'll head down the Red River Throw us a line or two, catch us a brown or blue Get your wife a flathead dinner
Well, all them girls were talking 'bout all their boys walking with their big chests and prideful mouths Had a friend in Cincinnati who died with a six-shooter taped to the roof of his mouth 'Cause his girl was making love to a man who'll never give her what she needs Like a shark in the middle of the big Pacific, she'll eat anything that fucking bleeds When it gets cold, your love, it comes and goes Grows with the vines and the trees Hate that it grows inside my lungs Freezes up all my rivers and creeks And when it gets hot, you're not around You go to town to get a different lover Deep within the shaking, earthquake in California summer Oh, I pray you'll never find another Well, I flew across the ocean, just humbly hoping I would make it to the other side 'Cause them boots of Spanish leather are only worn better when there is someone wearing down the high When there's nowhere to go and nowhere to call home, I hope you swim on back some day As the sharks eat all the hearts that are fallin' in love in San Francisco Bay When it gets cold, your love, it comes and goes Grows with the vines and the trees Hate that it grows inside my lungs And freezes up all my rivers and creeks And when it gets hot, you're not around You go to town to get a different lover Deep within the shaking, earthquake in California summer Oh, I pray you'll never find another Well, love is just a river, yeah, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white teeth Love is just a river yeah, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white teeth Love is just a river, yeah, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white teeth Love is just a river, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white Well, love is just a river, yeah, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white teeth Love is just a river yeah, love is just a creek Leadin' to the slaughter with the big, white teeth
Well, I ain't written a love song in so long as your hair leads down your spine But I don't mind a few lines tonight, I'll regret it for the rest of time Let your hips and your lips and your fingertips slip against the city streets Seepin' in again, sleepin' in while my friends get high on the edge of the West Side Highway Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay the day you told me to quit drinkin'? And thinkin' that I was gonna die before thirty, your mom was so worried about All those kids in the house tearin' picture frames down Our fathers were never around when we were younger So let me go, I saw you on the river's edge Draggin' on a plastic cigarette With your swim top still wet So let it go, meetin' you out on the coast You hate the smell of real smoke So why'd you always keep me so close? You were collectin' shells out on the Bay Shore, you know I was a shell before? Deep in the hands of another, my brother Had told me to leave, but I didn't believe That evil would mean some people you meet out in Queens The way the rain came down the other day in Byron Bay Made me feel so alone, so I just went home And scribbled some poem That I know that you'll never read So let it go, I saw you on the river's edge Draggin' on a plastic cigarette With your swim top still wet So let me go, meetin' you out on the coast You hate the smell of real smoke Why'd you always keep it so close? So let it go, I saw you on the river's edge Draggin' on a plastic cigarette With your swim top still wet
Well the flock flies in as the mandolin plays A beat down hymn that's in your daddy's blood It's duck season and his Browning Is frozen in that Rogers County mud It ain't been shot since she got caught With cancer growing down her lungs But you'll always got these times to get you by when times are low Like that time you saw a firework bounce off the dirt and explode Yeah, you can still come home The back shop light stays on The beer's always ice cold Yeah, you can still come home When you're down bad in a tax cab, you gave all You had to some drunker crowd in New Jersey Christmas Eve alone when your chemicals are low Got your father and your sister and the band all worried 'Cause you can't play your rhythm like you used to You miss it on the one-two and kick sounds hurried But you'll always have these times to get you by when times are low Like that time you saw the springtime make cricks out of winter snow Hey, you can still come home The back shop light stays on And even though they're gone Yeah, you can still come home Well the flock flies in while the violin plays The same old hymn that's in your mama's blood It's duck season, the tree's so thin The moon's seepin' on Rogers County mud But you'll always got these times to get you by when times are low Like the time you saw a firework bounce off the dirt and explode Yeah, you can still come home The back shop light stays on And even though you're grown Yeah, you can still come home You can still come home You can still come home
She got married on a porch last June She's got a new last name, she'll have a new home soon With her yellow-bandana gentleman from the South Them snowy city streets miss havin' her around And I'm watchin' snow fall from an aeroplane I've been to Oklahoma, I ain't ever been to Spain And I'm sayin' goodbye to who I used to be I'll start a forest fire with my family tree 'Cause I've been to Kansas City Southern To them cold Chicago streets I played rhythm with a drummer to the finest of the beat I made a woman fall in love and made a rich man cry And I'm on an aeroplane bound for Spain tonight She got married on a porch last June She's got a new last name and a new home soon And I've been to Oklahoma, but I never been to Spain I got myself a ride on an old airplane
When I was leaving your house you told me be careful There's some dark, dark, deserts under Arizona sky And Sedona don't own you or owe you a damn thing And you've always got somewhere else on your mind Like somewhere that'll care and maybe treat you fair With a spanish tongue and some dark brown eyes And I know that I'm hell bent and always will be But at least God knows I was always willin' But at least God knows I was always willin' God ain't a man in a two-piece suit He's a miner deep down and he's covered in soot And he'll come find you when it's time Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine When I finished the show you told me fly easy The thunder in London might get a boy down And those girls that are dancing way out in Hyde Park Love a thick accent and a western sound And I know that I'm hell bent and always will be But at least God knows I was always willin' But at least God knows I was always willin' God ain't a man in a two-piece suit He's a miner deep down and he's covered in soot And he'll come find you when it's time Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine When I was leaving your house you told me be careful There's some dark, dark deserts under Arizona skies And Sedona don't own you or owe you a damn thing And you've always got somewhere else on your mind God ain't a man in a two-piece suit He's a miner deep down and he's covered in soot And he'll come find you whenever it's time Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine Your soul's like an ol' Kentucky coal mine
These yellow lines go on forever, you should treat your baby better Got myself a real love letter, says she wants a man who Buys her fine wines and paintings, she wants something kind and patient Tells me nicely that I ain't it, then buys another round for All her stuck up friends in Brooklyn, if I'm so fucked up why you lookin' At all my songs and all my bookings, at the local jail I got miles, miles, miles, miles I've got miles I got miles, I got miles, I got miles Until I'm finally home You got miles, you got miles, you got miles With me on your radio All my habits ain't genetic, there's self forming don't you sweat it I'll do my very best to quit it, then wake up in the lobby Best western is where I call home, side table and telephone That Holy Bible sits alone, guess I'll keep it company Steal it when the morning comes, spend my whole life running from All the things I could become, they call it potential I got miles, I got miles, I got miles Until I'm finally home They've got miles, they got miles, they got miles With me on their radio These yellow lines go on forever, the highway's just the moon but better Truck stop food and rainy weather, always get me going I've been drinking wine for breakfast, eggs and bacon make me restless I'll be gone a long while, 'cause I've got miles I got miles, I got miles, I got miles Until I'm finally home I got miles, I got miles, I got miles I got miles all alone I got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles I got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles I've got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles, I got miles I got miles, I got miles
Well all good things pass, and your boy got himself into some trouble again But all my friends are bound to share in this denial And the coming of the Lord couldn't keep me from, a down south comeback smile That Oklahoman, popsicle frozen, empties on the burnpile Keep us in your prayers, we've been burnin' that midnight oil But what if I told ya it'll never burn hot enough And the coming of the Lord couldn't keep us from, God's unending love That Oklahoman, popsicle frozen, empties on a barren bluff All good things pass but there are better things ahead Nostalgia has a way of looking better in your head You'll turn around to see eyes brown shining in deep june With all good things passed, there's ten in bloom And all good things pass, like the cold Philadelphian winter streets On New Years Eve when I couldn't find my way home And the coming of the Lord couldn't keep me from, crying on the telephone With McGlincheys open, my hands were frozen Piling empties all alone All good things pass and your boy got himself into some trouble again But all my friends are bound to pass this grin around And the coming of the Lord couldn't keep me from A curse word back down south That Oklahoman, popsicle frozen while mama says to watch your mouth All good things pass, and your boy got himself into some trouble again But all my friends have shared in this denial
Sleep in your jeans in the back of a camper Slip 'em off slow while the stars do shine Drive through the night just to try and understand her Why she'd ever wanna' call that cowboy mine California baby, have you ever seen the darkness Have you, heard the sound of silence when it's just right California baby, I've been in this room for so long And I, don't have the words to say goodnight California baby, have you ever seen the darkness Have you, heard the sound of silence when its just right California baby, I've been in this room for so long And I, don't have the nerve to say goodnight Sleep in your jeans in the back of a camper Slip 'em off slow while the stars do shine Drive through the night just to try and understand her Why she'd ever wanna' call that cowboy mine
Recall watchin' the sun out in London Slowly hit the ground Played out at Hyde Park, oh, and the night's dark Slowly came around First time in so long I'd seen lips sing along In the back of a crowd The road goes on 'til it ends Halfway across the world with them sundown girls and my friends The road goes on 'til it ends We'll feel alive tonight 'til 'bout 4 or 5 then sleep in Recall watchin' the sun out in London Slowly hit the ground Played out at Hyde Park, oh, and the night's dark Slowly came around The road goes on 'til it ends Halfway across the world with them sundown girls and my friends The road goes on 'til it ends We'll feel alive tonight 'til 'bout 4 or 5 then sleep in
Gonna fight, gonna cry, gonna fall in love Scrap and claw for what we're dreamin' of Spend a night in jail after pissin' off a cop Go through hell with Heaven on top And lose some folks that we hold dear The fireflies out at Toogie's shine awfully clear You won't find no answers safe at home You can't learn heartbreak from a poem And every hard time, song rhyme, friend you've got You'll have, with Heaven on top You'll have, with Heaven on top We'll fight for our flags in some foreign place While those greedy politician boys all rat race Drive to California and surf the coast Be known for cuttin' up and cuttin' shit too close It's a long hard day and a talk with dad He was a heavy-footed boy in an ol' fastback You won't find no answers safe at home You can't learn heartbreak from a poem And every hard time, song rhyme, friend you've got You'll have, with Heaven on top You'll have, with Heaven on top And you won't find no answers safe at home You can't learn heartbreak from a poem And every hard time, song rhyme, friend you've got You'll have, with Heaven on top You'll have, with Heaven on top
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