It’s a long, hard, and windin’ road to where I am right now
A lot of days I wish I could change, but I can’t figure how
‘Cause all them places that I’ve been, things that I’ve seen
I’d be better off dead than goin’ there again
And I’ve been caught somewhere in between
A memory and a dream
Well, I’ve been screamin’ at the world
Since the time that I could talk
Well, I’ve been runnin’ into walls
Since the day that I could walk
‘Cause all them bottles I’ve drank, never mind the smoke
Man, the years are gangin’ up on me, but I’m holdin’ onto hope
And I’m still caught somewhere in between
A memory and a dream
Yeah, ten years gone, I’ve been around the world
And somehow, I always wind up here,
It must be this company I keep,
oh that takes me back and gets me on my feet
Yeah, my life is still exactly what it seems
A memory and a dream
Yeah, ten years gone, I’ve been around the world
And somehow, I always wind up here,
Must be this company I keep,
Oh that takes me back and gets me on my feet
Yeah, my life is still exactly what it seems
A memory and a dream
Yeah, my life is still exactly what it seems
A memory and a dream
It’s a long, hard, and windin’ road to where I am right now
A lot of days I wish I could change, but I can’t figure how
I stopped by a place I used to know
But nobody knew my name
And I felt out of place and out of time
But I had one just the same
The new bartender did not seem to care
About a story of back then
It’s gettin’ hard to find ’em, have you seen ’em?
I’m lookin’ for a friend
It’s been a time round here, just gettin’ by
Things are hard and nothin’s new
And I’ve been waitin’ for that sun to break on a cloudy afternoon
Yeah, this winter’s been much colder
Than the ones I knew back then
It’s gettin’ hard to find ’em, have you seen ’em?
I’m lookin’ for a friend
And I go down the road and back again
It’s hard rememberin’ where I’ve been
And I ain’t changed
It seems the world took off
And left me, that’s the way it goes
It’s a lonely road the dreamer follows
Like Peter Pan in Neverland, all alone
And I’m still singin’ for my supper, like I’ve always done
But now the business and the politics have taken most the fun
But I’ll be out there chasin’ sundown
And I’ll be home in God knows when
I’m lookin’ out to find one, I’m hopin’ I might see one
I’m lookin’ for a friend
And I go down the road and back again
It’s hard rememberin’ where I’ve been
And I ain’t changed
It seems the world took off
And left me, that’s the way it goes
It’s a lonely road the dreamer follows
Like Peter Pan in Neverland, all alone
I stopped by a place I used to know
But nobody knew my name
Stayin’ burnt out all the time
Well that’s a good way for you to lose your mind
Stayin’ low for too damn long
Well, that’s enough to wanna get high
I’m not saying what’s right or wrong
Some folks need a little help getting along
I can’t judge, Lord, I’ve been stoned
But I know Jesus knows
And I get by
And I get by
We all get by
By the grace of God we all get by
Yeah, my momma introduced me to God as a child
You know my dad, he does his livin’ a little less mild
He’d rather sing those gospel songs on the front porch anyway
My baby sister, she married a man
On the other side of where dad and I land
We laugh and joke and give him hell
But he loves that little girl
And they get by
And they get by
We all get by
By the grace of God we all get by
And everybody’s waiting on that day when all is right
And we’ve still got each other
To make it through another night
Everybody’s waiting on that time when all is right
We still got each other
To make it through another night
This corner bar is not a house of sin
It’s a place where all of us fit in
I’ve seen the same faces Saturday night
As I have on Sunday morning
And Bother John’s there sipping his drink
You know he don’t care what the others might think
He laughs and joke and finds it funny
That the others all drink alone at home
He gets by
And he gets by
We all get by
By the grace of God we all get by
Stayin’ burnt out all the time
Well, that’s a good way for you to lose your mind
Stayin’ low for too damn long
Well that’s enough to wanna get high
Yonder way, in the distance
Thunderheads comin’ down
Yesterday the sky was golden
The days before, well they’d been good
Every one that goes up, must come down
It’s gravity
But staying grounded, safely still
Robs the wanderer of being afraid
Hammer down as you quest, friend
To pick up speed through that next town
I point my face into the wind, friend
To exorcise the tragedies
That come with my free will
Comin’ down from the mountain
Trips me up and makes me feel
Like I can never find my way
Back to the top
And if Jesus calls before I wake
I’ll consider that my break
And I will ask for nothin’ nevermore
Nevermore, no no, nevermore
The valley roads, they lay hidden
In the box, without much light
And it gets easy to lose direction
To hide with shadows, to wait for night
And every one that goes down
Should get back up and start to heaven
But staying grounded, safely still
In the arms of God becomes your will
Take your time as you start up, friend
Enjoy the view atop the rung
Point your face into the sky, friend
Smilin’ oh that mean ole devil
Sure don’t like the sun
No he sure don’t like it none
Comin’ down from the mountain
Trips me up and makes me feel
Like I can never find my way
Back to the top
And if Jesus calls before I wake
I’ll consider that my break
And I will ask for nothin’ never more
Nevermore, no no, nevermore
Comin’ down from the mountain
Trips me up and makes me feel
Like I can never find my way
Back to the top
And if Jesus calls before I wake
I’ll consider that my break
And I will ask for nothin’ nevermore
Nevermore, no no, nevermore
13 years this spring, we’ve been together
And I recall more good than bad
Lately, you’ve been showin’ signs you no longer like me
I don’t have to tell you I’ve been sad
It’s been good and off domestic situation
You’ve been my rock all through the years
Now I’ve got to find a way to change our dispositions
Well, I’m tired of fightin’ back my tears
I don’t know what I’ve done to bring you down
And you won’t even look at me
And I feel unwelcome in my own house
But I’m still the same old me
Yeah, the other day you were thinkin’ about leavin’
And I told you then I don’t want that
But then you brought it up again, like I’d forgotten
That wall sure feels cold against my back
You point that gun long enough at somebody
And they’ll holler “shoot”
“Go on, pull that trigger, I’m tired of playin’”
The hell that comes with not knowin’
If you’re really leavin’
Is worse than if that day may come itself
I don’t know what I’ve done to bring you down
But you won’t even look at me
And I feel unwelcome in my own house
But I’m still the same old me
13 years this spring, we’ve been together
I still recall more good than bad
All the people ask me where I’ve been
Where I’m from, where I’m from
Down the muddy banks to a place
Out on the edge of town
I’ve been down, I’ve been down
To the Prairie House
Lay your money down on the barrelhead
By the door, with your gun
You won’t need your gun
And don’t you cross the Reverend
On a Thursday night in a game of stud
Son, you’re gonna lose, you’re gonna lose
The doorman knew
So here’s to you and I at the end of the day
Forgiving all the wrongs we’ve made
We can set them up and lay them all down
Singing this is where we’re bound
Where we’re bound
Yeah, the judge’s wife sits behind the bar
And she’ll set them up
She’ll set you straight, she’ll set you straight
Oh, the sheriff is a bluesman
And he’ll sing a song
Sing along, sing along
Sing with every song
Here’s to you and I at the end of the day
Forgiving all the wrongs we’ve made
We can set them up and lay them all down
Singing this is where we’re bound
Where we’re bound
Oh Lord, please walk with us
On our not so narrow way
Oh Lord, please be with us
Can’t you hear this old house pray?
The good guys always win
And we’re all forgivin’ of our sins
And the whole world smiles when a child is born
And everyone’s color blind
And my God and your God are one of kind
Who wants a holy war anyway?
There’s just a few things I’d be glad to say
There’s no homeless on our streets
There’s no crooked politicians takin’ money from me
And the banks look out for the little man
We’re all of the ones that care
The teachers and the nurses, we’ve made ’em millionaires
And the lawyers all work pro bono
There’s just a few things I’d be glad to say
And time will find the reasons
The where’s, the why’s, and all that lead us
Seeking shelter, seeking truth
I find it’s harder with age
All the childhood things that we threw away
They were just pieces of our innocence
I find it’s harder with age
All the childhood things that we threw away
They were just pieces of our innocence
I don’t miss those cigarettes
And I never drink to try to forget
And this old world is still a damn fine place
There’s just a few things I’d be glad to say
And time will find the reasons
The where’s, the why’s, and all that lead us
Seeking shelter, seeking truth
I find it’s harder with age
All the childhood things that we put away
They were just pieces of our innocence
The good guys always win
And we’re all forgivin’ of our sins
And the whole world smiles when a child is born
Here’s to you, my Lady Bug
You’re my gift from God above
Precious little angel child
Come, be still with me a while
It rained for weeks before you came
How do you know I love the rain
The whole world changed when you found yours
No, nothin’ new would be the same
Never fear child
I’m right here child
Lady Bug
Here’s to you my wild flower
May you stand the tests of time
Dark days come, and dark days pass
Just keep reachin’ for that sun
Always grow child
And always know child
Wild flower
Here’s to you, my blue-eyed girl
It’s your time to change the world
Freely give the gifts you bring
Learn to laugh, child, dance and sing
Be yourself child
Find yourself child
My blue-eyed girl
So here’s to you, my Lady Bug
Come, be still with me a while
This old guitar
Is gonna smell like this bar tomorrow
Yeah, the smell is all it gets, I take the pay
But when I open up that case, we remember the night before
This old guitar
Is gonna smell like this bar tomorrow
And my old truck
She was new about a year ago
Yeah, she’s lived an old truck’s lifetime, carryin’ me down the road
When I turn that engine over, she’s ready and willin’ to go
My old truck
She was new about a year ago
My sweet girl
She’s gonna be smilin’ when I get home
Yeah, she gives more than she takes, she don’t take that much
And I’ll be pullin’ up in a dirty old truck with a smelly old guitar
And my sweet girl
Gonna be smilin’ when I get home
I got me a friend
He’s always there beside me
And I forget sometimes he’s there, but he’s always there
When I find myself some trouble, he’s the first guy that I call
I got me a good friend
I ain’t never seen at all
This old guitar
Is gonna smell like this bar tomorrow
I’ve seen the sun for the first time
In a week or so
I wipe the sleep from my eyes
I’ve got nowhere to go
A cup of coffee in my hand
I’ve got me a smoke
There’s nothing doin’
I just wanna be alone
The right end of the sunrise
It sure looks nice
To see a new day taking shape
Not startin’ with no night
Well I been rollin’ along on a thin dime
And I’m happy to be home
Please forgive me, I just wanna be alone
Well I’m gonna finish this pot of coffee
And I’m gonna put me another on
Well I might grab my thread-bare Martin
And pick me out a song
I know I’ll sit right here, I’ll smoke one more
And just enjoy the dawn
I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Spent my lifetime runnin’ around
It suits me fine
Shakin’ hands and one night stands
That’s what gets me by
But the days gettin’ short
And the songs getting’ long
It’s time to go
No, I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Well I’m gonna finish this pot of coffee
And I’m gonna put me another on
Well I might grab my thread-bare Martin
And pick me out a song
I know I’ll sit right here, I’ll smoke one more
And just enjoy the dawn
No, I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Please forgive me, I just want to be alone
There’s nothin’ doin’
I just wanna be alone
It’s just enough to get the band clear,
a case of beer
I’m shoring up the load
It’s just enough to get a full tank
A little dank from some dude in the second row
Here’s to hoping this guitar
Will make it through the end of this run
Here’s to knowing it’s the last song
Man I’m doing what I can
Well, I’m a fast moving son of gun
I don’t say much
If I even talk at all
Well, you can find out what you want to know if you listen to my songs
You did not come in here to here me speak and I came in to sing
It’s all about the song and the line and the words and the melody
I never did care to be classified because
I never did call it anything to hide what it really was
I love rock and roll and songs with soul
but let’s call a spade a spade
Yeah, that’s a pop record man, you’re a Nashville fan
If you could sing then you’d have it made
And I appreciate your good taste
And I appreciate your time
And if we never meet again
I’ll assume the pleasure’s all mine
It’s just enough to get the band clear,
a case of beer
shoring up the load
It’s just enough to get a full tank
A little dank from some dude I did not know
Here’s to hoping this guitar
can make it through the end of this run
Here’s to knowing it’s the last song
Man I’m doing what I can
Well, I’m a fast moving son of gun
Here’s to knowing it’s the last song
Man I’m doing what I can
Well, I’m a fast moving son of gun
Church bells ring with a rose petal shower
Standing in our finest hour
Walk and talk with you beside me, and me beside you
First new home and our first dog together
Setting in for life’s weather
Days go by, we begin to find that the new wears off
Years roll on and the paint on the house fades
Dogs get old and children move away
With lines in our faces, gray in our hair
The new wears off
You were so beautiful back then
I could never imagine how beautiful you would be by now
When the new wears off
Of a house and a car
Nothings gonna change the way I feel in my heart
And if time stood still
For a million years
My love for you would only go that far
So let the new wear off
I never knew a man who would wish away his life
But I think of all the times
That we’ve had
Those still to come when the new wears off
You’re so beautiful right now
I could never imagine how beautiful you will be someday
When the new wears off
Of a house and a car
Nothings gonna change the way I feel in my heart
And if time stood still
For a million years
My love for you would only go that far
So let the new wear off
Well, it’s me
In case you were wondering
Same old mess as I have always been
I’ve been fighting
Regrets and memories
Time has not healed me like I thought it would
And I don’t know which ones are worse
The nightmares or the hangovers
The sleepless nights or the passing out and finally getting rest
The slowing down just reminds me of why I started in the first place
The numbing just fueled me for the running away from the pain
And I’m closer to the messed up than the sober thing
I’ve been working
What I mean by working
Been trying to find myself
Who I am
I’m still fighting regrets and memories
Time don’t give up on me
Like I fear it will
And I don’t know which ones are worse
The nightmares or the hangovers
The sleepless nights or the passing out and finally getting rest
The slowing down just reminds me of why I started in the first place
The numbing just fueled me for the running away from the pain
And I’m closer to the messed up than the sober thing
And I don’t know which ones are worse
The nightmares or the hangovers
The sleepless nights or the passing out and finally getting rest
The slowing down just reminds me of why I started in the first place
The numbing just fueled me for the running away from the pain
And I’m closer to the messed up than the sober thing
Well, it’s me
In case you were wondering
Same old mess as I have always been
Well, the world tears down all those who go astray
We pay a price for going our own way
Oh and wisdoms often born of our scars
And we find ourselves losing who we are
Go on hit the highway, disappear in the night
You got to see the world all by yourself, and that’s alright
You ain’t leaving me worried, you were born to roam
The thing about outlaws and mustangs, they always come home
They always come home
You outlaws and mustangs, restless and on the run
Well come all you misfit daughters and you prodigal sons
You don’t have to apologize
For your free, exploring mind
Go on hit the highway, disappear in the night
You got to see the world all by yourself, and that’s alright
You ain’t leaving me worried, you were born to roam
The thing about outlaws and mustangs, they always come home
They always come home
Go on hit the highway, disappear in the night
You got to see the world all by yourself, and that’s alright
You ain’t leaving me worried, you were born to roam
The thing about outlaws and mustangs, they always come home
They always come home
Oh, they always come home
Oh, they always come home
Oh, they always come home
Oh, they always come home
Oh, they always come home
You can tell ’em all that I’m crazy
You can tell ’em I’ve never changed
You can tell ’em anything that you want ’em to hear
It’s okay, I’ve heard the same
Don’t think that I love you
Don’t think that I don’t try
Don’t you ever think you don’t add more weight every time you asked me why
The shackles can’t get no tighter, the chain ain’t got no give
The ball don’t get no smaller, yeah, that’s just the way it is
You can tell ’em all that I’m crazy
You can tell ’em I’ve never changed
You can tell ’em anything that you want ’em to hear
It’s okay, I’ve heard the same
I’ve heard the same
Right there on your table
I see your plate is full
Sitting next to a glass half empty
And a never ending pool
Yeah, the reasons I keep leaving
Are the reasons I can’t stay
Don’t think I don’t want to
And, no, I’ve never walked away
You can tell ’em all that I’m crazy
You can tell ’em I’ve never changed
You can tell ’em anything that you want ’em to hear
It’s okay, I’ve heard the same
While you’re out there seeking shelter
And you find yourself in chains
I’ve always had had my own to bare
But you know I can’t complain
I can’t complain
I wish I could have said it all
Before you heard it rhyme
It’s the same old song you’ve heard me sing
At least a million times
You can tell ’em all that I’m crazy
You can tell ’em I’ve never changed
You can tell ’em anything that you want ’em to hear
It’s okay, I’ve heard the same
While you’re out there seeking shelter
And you find yourself in chains
I’ve always had my own to bare
But you know I can’t complain
I can’t complain
I can’t complain
No, I can’t complain
I can wait to love in Heaven
I can wait for you
Far away, I’ll treat you better
Better than down here
Because I’ve done wrong
And I’m a little afraid
I ain’t too strong
And this ain’t easy to say
Take this bottle
Take this bottle
And just walk away, the both of you
And let me feel the pain I’ve done to you
I can hope we’ll be together
With a better roof over our heads
I can hope the stormy weather
It passes on, it passes on
But I’ve hoped too long
Hoped for you to change
And that hope is gone
So listen what I say
Take this bottle
Take this bottle
And just walk away, the both of you
And let me feel the pain I’ve done to you
Cause I’ve done wrong
And I’m a little afraid
And I’ve hoped too long
Hoped for you to change
Take this bottle
Take this bottle
And just walk away, the both of you
And let me feel the pain I’ve done to you
I can wait to love in Heaven
I can wait for you
I can wait to love in Heaven
I can wait for you
You might lose every dollar you make
Cradle will fall and the bank will break
You might laugh until you wear that mistake
Swore it never happened to you
Taking from Peter, give it to Paul
It’s feedin’ your family or against the law
It all depends on which side you fall
On these deceiver’s blues
Two different rules a man lives by
The law of truth
The law of a lie
It’s up to you
You decide
Win or lose
Do or die
Sometimes I wonder how the good Lord decides
Who gets the luck, who gets the struggle and strife
Good and evil, the wrong and the right
I’ve learned from both the two
I never win any game but mine
I learned the hard way when to call it a night
If you care to learn, son, I’ll teach you right
Oh, these deceiver’s blues
Two different rules a man lives by
The law of truth
The law of a lie
It’s up to you
You decide
Win or lose
Do or die
Two different rules a man lives by
The law of truth
The law of a lie
It’s up to you
You decide
Win or lose
Do or die
You might lose every dollar you make
Cradle will fall and the bank will break
You might laugh until you wear that mistake
Oh, these deceiver’s blues
Oh, these deceiver’s blues
Oh, these deceiver’s blues
The sun goes down
If you hang around
Feel the cold wind blow
I never sleep
But hide in these sheets
Try to keep my eyes closed
Fire don’t freeze
Nightmares ain’t dreams
Memories turn to rust
I feel the breeze and the fire that it feeds
It’s never cold enough
Three AM, I wake up screaming
Pleading for something I never believed in
There ain’t no room in here for no more demons
And the bad one always haunt me the most
Oh, I could use a few more ghosts
It’s all in my head
Just shy of dead
It’s hard to see a way out
Wish I could learn
But I can’t discern
What is burning me now
Three AM, I wake up screaming
Pleading for something I never believed in
There ain’t no room in here for no more demons
And the bad one always haunt me the most
Oh, I could use a few more ghosts
Three AM, I wake up screaming
Pleading for something I never believed in
There ain’t no room in here for no more demons
And the bad ones always haunt me the most
Oh, I could use a few more ghosts
I could use a few more ghosts
I could use a few more ghosts
I’ve been up and down these highways,
Put up wet and rode too hard
Worked to death to earn respect and I’ve earned every single scar
I always thought that this was crazy,
Didn’t know it’d go this far
But here I am
These wheels, they keep on turning
Headed right into the stars
I know it’s all been worth it,
Man, I sure miss playing bars
All I ever really wanted was to sing and play guitar
With my friends
Some said I’d never make it
That I didn’t do things right
So I showed them who I was
And then I made it just to spite
I changed the game, stood in the rain, I may be borderline insane
Been messed around, I’ve been put down but I keep coming back again
I wear that hat, yeah, I’m the punk that says I did it my own way
And at the end of the day I can say
I changed the game
So I keep moving, looking forward to what I have yet to find
I keep searching for a song and I keep humming on a rhyme
I keep praying for the youngbloods next in line to take my place
And the next one to stand up and say
Some said I’d never make it,
That I didn’t do things right
So I showed them who I was
And then I made it just to spite
I changed the game, stood in the rain, I may be borderline insane
Been messed around, I’ve been put down but I keep coming back again
I wear that hat, yeah I’m the punk who says I did it my own way
And at the end of the day I can say
At the end of the day I can say
I changed the game
Some said I’d never make it
That I didn’t do things right
So I showed them who I was
And then I made it just to spite
I changed the game, stood in the rain, I may be borderline insane
Been messed around, I’ve been put down but I keep coming back again
I wear that hat, yeah I’m the punk who says I did it my own way
And at the end of the day I can say
At the end of the day I can say
At the end of the day I can say
Go change the game
I changed the game
If you take me and say I’ll make you mine
If you’d give me your time
Right or wrong, I’m buying
I would
When you walk by, you know you catch my eye
My face a thin disguise
That shows the reasons why
I would
If you asked me if I could stay the night
Until the morning light
If that’s what on your mind
I would
If you asked me if I’d give you my life
Until the end of time
If that’s what’s on your mind
I would, I would
Walk through fire to shield you from the flame
I would, I would
Be the hand you reach for in the rain
Through the trials, through the triumph
Through the bad and through the good
If I could, I would
I would, I would
Walk through fire to shield you from the flame
I would, I would
Be the hand you reach for in the rain
Through the trials, through the triumph
Through the bad and through the good
If I could, I would
If I could, I would
You can put me on a rig
You can put me on a freight dock
Put a hammer in my hand
I’ll give it all I’ve got
It’s just what I do
It ain’t hard to understand
You can change the tools
But you can’t change the working man
You can sew an old patch on
With a company and a name
It may read a little different
Inside I’m still the same
It’s just what I do
It ain’t hard to understand
You can change the tools
But you can’t change the working man
Whatever it takes
It just does
Living on a dream
In a cloud of dust
Riding out is just what I do
Wish I could stay, to tell the truth
It may seem cold but when I get old
You’ll know I made a stand
You can change the tools
But you can’t change the working man
Whatever it takes, it just does
Living on a dream
In a cloud of dust
Riding out is just what I do
Wish I could stay, to tell the truth
It may seem cold, when I get old
You’ll know I made a stand
You can change the tools
But you can’t change the working man
You can change the tools
But you can’t change the working man
You can put me on a rig
You can put me on a freight dock
Put a hammer in my hand
I’ll give it all I’ve got
I woke up in the same clothes I was in last night
I’ve done it again
Pounding eyes and bloodshot eyes about to light
That morning cigarette
I’ve seen the bottom of a whiskey bottle
More times than I can count
Woke up cold, the sunrise burning up my eyes
On some old stranger’s couch
Wasted
Wasted youth,
Wasted time,
And no truth in a wasted mind
Ain’t no way to go through life
Night after night
Wasted
I can’t get back the time I’ve had,
Can’t make amends, rewrite the past
I’ve change my ways ‘fore it’s too late
So one day I don’t see my savior’s face
Wasted
Wasted youth,
Wasted time,
And no truth in a wasted mind
Ain’t no way to go through life
Night after night
Wasted
I woke up in the same clothes I was in last night,
I’ve done it again
I haven’t read your letters for a while
So I woke up and read through some this morning
I haven’t called that’s just my style
The need for you it hits without warning
I know it’s me to blame
You reach out and I just pulled away
You know that I won’t stay
And you just let me go
And I run back to you to find my way
Always running back to you
When I leave, I’m on my feet
Coming back, I’m crawling on my knees
Always running back to you
I can’t stay gone for too long
I think I can but I’m not that strong
A couple turns I took were wrong
Running hard to get back home but it’s so stormy
All I have for you is this song
I’ll make it right with you Sunday morning
Dry soul, in need of rain
You take me and lead me through the pain
You know that I won’t stay
You just let me go on, knowing I’ll be back to find my way
Always running back to you
When I leave, I’m on my feet
Coming back, I’m crawling on my knees
Always running back you
I can’t stay gone for too long
I think I can but I’m not that strong
If I can make it from here to there
All I’ve got’s this prayer
All I’ve got’s this prayer
Always running back to you
When I leave, I’m on my feet
Coming back, I’m crawling on my knees
Always running back you
I can’t stay gone for too long
I think I can
Always running back to you
When I leave, I’m on my feet
Coming back, I’m crawling on my knees
Always running back you
I can’t stay gone for too long
I think I can but I’m not that strong
Always running back to you
I’m always running
I’m always running
Always running back to you
I’m always running
Life is tough and love’s a fight
Don’t mean you’re doing it wrong
It means you’re doing it right
So feel it all and take it in
It’s okay to lose but you play to win
You may want to take the easy way
But do your best not to be swayed
Don’t settle for the simple ride
There’s sun over the mountainside
Far beyond the great divide lies endless skies, blue and wide
Don’t be afraid to sacrifice for something worthy of your life
Don’t waste your days on dreams that don’t fill you
Find out what you love and let it kill you
Friends pass on and move away
Lovers leave and hearts will break
Falling down ain’t just for kids
A life played safe
Is a life not lived
You may want to take the easy way
But do your best not to be swayed
Don’t settle for the simple ride
There’s sun over the mountainside
Far beyond the great divide lies endless skies, blue and wide
Don’t be afraid to sacrifice for something worthy of your life
Don’t waste your days on dreams that don’t fill you
Find out what you love and let it kill you
You’ll learn more from failures and mistakes
Life’s about the choices that we make
Don’t settle for the simple ride
There’s sun over the mountainside
Far beyond the great divide lies endless skies, blue and wide
Don’t be afraid to sacrifice for something worthy of your life
Don’t waste your days on dreams that don’t fill you
Find out what you love and let it kill you
Find out what you love and let it kill you
Find out what you love
I spent my lifetime wishin’ the waitress would come around
Tellin’ jokes, shootin’ pool on the other side of town
The whistle blows at five o’clock there’s only one place I’ll be found
Down at Ernie’s icehouse liftin’ longnecks to that good old country sound
And talkin’ ’bout the good old times
Braggin’ bout how it used to be
And I’ve worn out the same old lines
Now it seems nothing’s news to me
There’s nothin’ like a steel guitar cryin’ in the night
There’s nothin’ like a sawdust floor and a good old friendly fight
I’d finally find my way back home and you’d patch up my face
But that was another time and another place
Now we’re talkin’ ’bout the good old times
Braggin’ bout how it used to be
I’ve worn out the same old lines
Now it seems nothing’s news to me
I wonder how I came to be the know-it-all I am
And how the world ever got used to me
Talkin’ ’bout the good old times
Braggin’ bout how it used to be
But I’ve worn out the same old lines
Now it seems nothing’s news to me
I’ve been high
I’ve been low
I’ve been wound up tighter than a hangman’s rope
I broke hearts
I’ve been burned
Taught a lot of lessons but I never learned
I’ve been good
I’ve been bad
Been the best worst friend that you’ve ever had
I’ve been right
I’ve been wrong
I’m a walkin’ talkin’ livin’ breathin’ country song
Money can’t buy more than it can
When you ain’t got nothing but something to prove
The price is high for not giving a damn
But when you don’t you ain’t got nothing to lose
It ain’t hard to be a fool like me
All it cost me was everything
I get loose
I get loud
Give a lot of people shit to talk about
I get mad
I get mean
I’m a fire tongued devil with a belly full of gasoline
Money can’t buy more than it can
When you ain’t got nothing but something to prove
The price is high for not giving a damn
But when you don’t you ain’t got nothing to lose
It ain’t hard to be a fool like me
All it cost me was everything
Everything
Money can’t buy more than it can
When you ain’t got nothing but something to prove
The price is high for not giving a damn
But when you don’t you ain’t got nothing to lose
It ain’t hard to be a fool like me
No It ain’t hard to be a fool like me
All it cost me was everything
Cost me everything
I hear them talking under their breath
Their lips don’t move but I know what they said
I see them looking me up and down
Hiding their smiles like I’m some kind of clown
They don’t know what you don’t know
I’m gonna hurt you as much as I can
And watch you cry and die where you stand
I want to hear your tears hit the floor
I’m gonna hurt you
And hurt you some more
I felt the air sucked out of the room
What the hell did you get into
They just assume that I must be blind
Man I wish they could read my mind
Cause they don’t know what you don’t know
I’m gonna walk right up to your friends
I’m gonna tell them about the mess you’re in
You’re gonna watch their jaws hit the floor
I’m gonna hurt you
And hurt you some more
I’m gonna hurt you like you’ve never hurt
I’m gonna drive your name in the dirt
You won the battle but I win the war
I’m gonna hurt you and hurt you
I’m gonna hurt you as much as I can
And watch you cry and die where you stand
I want to hear your tears hit the floor
I’m gonna hurt you
And hurt you some more
I’m gonna hurt you
And hurt you some more
Strong liquor and an empty glass
And three weeks that kicked my ass
This runnin’ ragged sure is hell on me
I’m nine miles a minute and I’m head-long in it
And she knows she’s in up to her knees
And she’s patient when she’s had enough
That’s how she shows me love
And she gives me more than she gets from me
Sometimes the whole thing gets me down
It takes more than love to turn around
I have mercy when I need it
That’s one thing I’ll always need
And she knows it
And lord she shows it
She gives me every reason to believe
I have mercy when I need it
And that’s one thing I always need
And she knows it
And lord she shows it
She gives me every reason to believe
And she knows it
And lord she shows it
She gives me every reason to believe
Strong liquor and an empty glass
Three weeks that kicked my ass
This runnin’ ragged sure is hell on me
There’s a fire deep inside of my lady that burns just for me
She struck a match on a heart full of gasoline
Sometimes it burns like a candle
Sometimes it’s out of control
Like on nights when it rains
And she’s pouring champagne
And she calls out my name in the dark
Passionate light and with eyes full of lightening we light up the night with a spark
Feeding the flames of the heart
There’s been loves in the past went from embers to ashes to cold
In the blaze of the dawn we stay going strong in the glow
Sometimes it burns like a candle
Sometimes it’s out of control
Like on nights when it rains
And she’s pouring champagne
And she calls out my name in the dark
Passionate light and with eyes full of lightening we light up the night with a spark
Feeding the flames of the heart
Sometimes it burns like a candle
Sometimes it’s out of control
I love nights when it rains
And she’s pouring champagne
And she calls out my name in the dark
Passionate light and with eyes full of lightening we light up the night with a spark
Feeding the flames
Feeding the flames of the heart
Feeding the flames of the heart
I could conjure up so many times
From the good old days when she was mine
I could reminisce on the crazy nights
When I held her close, but I always cry
No I don’t trust my memories anymore
They ain’t the friends I thought they were before
They used to be so fond
Now my faith in them is gone
No I don’t trust my memories anymore
Got a thousand scars all across my back
This wounded heart just can’t get past
When I see you now in a perfect dream
I wake myself before it turns on me
No I don’t trust my memories anymore
They ain’t the friends I thought they were before
They used to be so fond
Now my faith in them is gone
No I don’t trust my memories anymore
No I don’t trust my memories anymore
They ain’t the friends I thought they were before
They used to be so fond
Now my faith in them is gone
I I don’t trust my memories anymore
They used to be so fond
Now my faith in them is gone
I I don’t trust my memories anymore
Well I prayed for peaceful waters
But the storms already came
So let it rain
Let it rain
When the going gets a little harder
Don’t throw it all away
Even though they’re moving slow
The winds of change are gonna blow like a hurricane
When you’re coming from the bottom you don’t feel like number one
They’ll be days that seem impossible until you get’em done
I’ve been running to the things I thought I was running from
But I’ll run until the day my breath is taken from my lungs
Well I prayed for peaceful waters
But the storms already came
So let it rain
Let it rain
When the going gets a little harder
Don’t throw it all away
Even though they’re moving slow
The winds of change are gonna blow like a hurricane
When you’ve made it to the top you don’t feel like number one
You can’t stop because they count on you to be what you’ve become
It’s not an option but to run at things you should be running from
Cause you’ve gotten what you wanted now you’ve got to get it done
Well I prayed for peaceful waters
But the storms already came
So let it rain
Let it rain
When the going gets a little harder
Don’t throw it all away
Even though they’re moving slow
The winds of change are gonna blow like a hurricane
Well I prayed for peaceful waters
But the storms already came
So let it rain
Let it rain
When the going gets a little harder
Don’t throw it all away
Even though they’re moving slow
The winds of change are gonna blow like a hurricane
Well they said we’d never make it
And they just wonder how it works alright
Yeah time does tell a story
And time does fly
We’re just fine alright
You need to know that she still drives me crazy
In every good way, yeah
Ain’t nobody else on earth gets to me
The way she moves me
Yeah yeah
Well love said that we’d make it
They still wonder how it works alright
Yeah time will tell our story
And time does fly
And we’re still fine alright
You need to know she still drives me crazy
In every good way, yeah
Ain’t nobody else on earth gets to me
The way she moves me
Yeah yeah
And even though she still drives me crazy
In every good way, yeah
Ain’t nobody else on earth gets to me
The way she moves me
Yeah yeah
Chasing our tails
And calling it hell
And running ‘cause running it’s free
While they’re filling our heads
With tin penny dread
Of whatever they want us to see
But we’re here for the show
We already know that it ends like some old tragedy
I’ve got my ear to the ground, there’s signs all around
Nobody knows how to read
Agendas are sold to the masses
A train wreck, a car crash is all that they show
As soon as we’re cut into classes
They shake up the bottle and watch it explode
Time never changes
And don’t stay the same like the motives of man seem to do
We can bitch we can moan
But that ships long gone
And it ain’t sailing back round too soon
Are you enjoying the show
You already know that it ends like some old tragedy
So keep your ear to the ground, there’s signs all around
Nobody knows how to read
Agendas are sold to the masses
A train wreck, a car crash is all that they show
As soon as we’re cut into classes
They shake up the bottle and watch it explode
Workin down my third cup of coffee
Waiting on the grey to burn away
Seems the world outside my window is getting colder
Pray for my shoulders
I finally just stopped turning on the TV
All it ever does is bring me down
Til this old wicked world starts turning slower
Pray for my shoulders
Heaven only knows
How time can take its toll
Lay burdens on a soul along the way
The weight can hang so heavy
It gets harder standing steady
And holding on gets tougher everyday
So tonight when you get on your knees won’t you pray
For my shoulders
Heaven only knows
How time can take its toll
Lay burdens on a soul along the way
Yeah the weight can hang so heavy
It gets harder standing steady
And holding on gets tougher everyday
So tonight when you get on your knees won’t you pray
Yeah tonight when you get on your knees won’t you pray
Working down my third cup of coffee
Waiting on the grey to burn away
There ain’t nothing worse than losing somebody
Love is such a precious thing to find
And I’m the first to admit, it might kill me
If I wasn’t so damn stubborn all the time
Yeah I know life ain’t easy
Man believe me I lose more than I win
Just gotta roll with the flow and the punches
You might get hit
You’re gonna get back up again
Hard times like to hit when you ain’t ready
You can’t see them coming when you’re looking the other way
Everybody’s out there fighting something
We all get the blues when we’ve still got dues to pay
So just know life ain’t easy
Man believe me you’re gonna lose more than you win
Just gotta roll with the flow and the punches
You might get hit
You’re gonna get back up again
Yeah I know life ain’t easy
Man believe me I lose more than I win
Just gotta roll with the flow and the punches
You might get hit
You’re gonna get back up again
You might get hit
You’re gonna get back up again
Well it’s closing time, I’m down to my last dime
You can bet your ass I’m in a world of trouble
If I’d a stuck with beer, I’d been out of here
But the man in the bar room mirror is still drowning doubles
When the hard stuff hits my veins
I’m a puppet on a string
That old 90 proof just won’t let me stop
Drop a needle on that old jukebox
I’ll be a fool on a stool but it ain’t my fault
That’s what happens when whiskey whiskey calls the shots
When the morning comes, my old lady son
Gonna come undone loud and clear
But it’ll happen again cause every now and then
My old low down no good friend gets in my ear
When the hard stuff hits my veins
I’m a puppet on a string
That old 90 proof just won’t let me stop
Drop a needle on that old jukebox
I’ll be a fool on a stool but it ain’t my fault
That’s what happens when whiskey whiskey calls the shots
That’s what happens when whiskey whiskey calls the shots
Yeah I do
That’s what happens when whiskey whiskey calls the shots
Let’s go one more time
That’s what happens when whiskey calls the shots
I can do this all day
That’s what happens when whiskey calls the shots
I got a half a six pack of Old Milwaukee
And a half a bag of weed
I can’t do it like I did when I was a kid
This is all I’m going to need
Because I know you always worry about me drinking my dinner
But I don’t do that anymore
I got me a sweet girl at home
She’s keeping food on the table
And at night she keeps me warm
So I’ve got me this piece of paper
And I got my favorite pen
I know it’s been a little while
And talking’s not my style
So I just had to write my friend
Hey I’m doing alright Mamma
I’m ok, I know your late night talks with Jesus
Have helped me on my way
I know it wasn’t always easy
Raising my father’s son
And your son will be alright
If the shows keep comin’
This old guitar and me are still strummin’
I know you always knew I always took it way too far
But I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing ok
You remember the time when I was stuck in L.A.
And I didn’t have a job
And I didn’t have a way to pay the bills that I racked up
Yeah, you kept me from losing my truck
Yeah, I’m a little better off now
Than I was then
But it’s sure nice to see you calling me when
I’m out there on the road
Yeah, you calling to say have a good show
Hey I’m doing alright Mamma
I’m ok, I know your late night talks with Jesus
Have helped me on my way
I know it wasn’t always easy
Raising my father’s son
And your son will be alright
If the shows keep comin’
This old guitar and me are still strummin’
I know you always knew I always took it way too far
But I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing ok
California’s still on fire
And it don’t rain no more in Texas
There’s a few less ice caps way up north of here
Mother Russia stays pissed-off
Yeah, she’s got some big old bombs
Still throwin’ around her weight after all these years
And the price of gasoline is enough to make you scream
Yeah, the cost of livin’ goes up and the pay goes down
I don’t care what’s right or left, y’all
I’m just out here with the rest
In the middle class, that still means broke to me
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
I’m tellin’ what the blue collar man is goin’ thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
And the politicians will never know
How to let their egos go
No, they could not give two damns ’bout you and me
Yeah, but they still got their pensions
With some tactics they’d rather not mention
That’s the price we pay for them livin’ free
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
All the trouble a blue collar man is goin’ thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
All the trouble a blue collar man is goin thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
All to hell with all those bringin’ that bad news down
All to hell with all those bringin’ that bad news down
I cast no stones
I build no walls
And I tell the truth
The truth comes to call
And I try to walk
That narrow way
Sometimes I go over the lines
And I won’t make it back till the next day
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
I don’t talk with Jesus
As much as I should
I don’t read that good book
Everyday like I could
But I like to stop
At the end of the day
I pray that I hurt nobody
And somebody new found their way
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
Say a prayer for me brother
And I’ll see you on down the line
I’ve been gone for way too long
And I’ve been working way too hard
And I know, it’s taking it’s toll on you
But tonight I’ll make things right
By the fire with some candlelight
And I’ll tell you
What we’re gonna do
We’re not going out
We’re gonna stay right here at home
There won’t be anyone in the world
When we’re all alone
We’re gonna
Lay the worries back and love until we’re back on track
If you’ll just give me this chance
Move the couch, lock the door, socks move well on a hardwood floor
And we’re gonna dance
We’re gonna dance
The rush of life can get you down
If you let it, it runs you to the ground
But that’s just life
We’re not going out, we’re gonna stay right here at home
There won’t be anyone in the world
When we’re all alone
We’re gonna
Lay the worries back and love until we’re back on track
If you’ll just give me this chance
Move the couch, lock the door, socks move well on a hardwood floor
And we’re gonna dance
We’re gonna dance
Tell me old man, where have you been
I’ve been reading those stories, about chasing the wind
I guess I’ve come back with one or two
I’ve never really quite known what to do
Tell me old man, what are you looking for
Has it been worth all you’ve given and so much more
Sometimes the things we seek skew the point
Sometimes the whole damn world seems out of joint
And it makes me wonder
And it makes me want to live
So I’ll steal freedom while there’s still some
And take the whole world in
If I could only leave my worries with the birds of the wind
And I know one day there’ll be solace
So I’ll just live ‘til then
If I could only leave my worries with the birds of the wind
Old man I know you’ve had questions too
The same ones we’ve been askin’ of you
You just roll on back out of sight
Stealin’ away again, like a child in the night
Still full of wonder
And you still want to live
You steal freedom while there’s still some
And take the whole world in
You’ve learned to leave your worries with the birds of the wind
And you know one day there’ll be solace
So you’ll just live ‘til then
And you learn to leave your worries with the birds of the wind
If I could only leave my worries with the birds of the wind
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Pistons pumpin’
Minds are racin’
It’s hard to sleep man
When I’m shakin’
Bad news surrounds me
Its always found me
Creeping up when things are good
Yeah the dark days find a way
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
The camera captures
All the things that
Make us turn from
What we see
It’s always moving
It don’t stop rolling
I haven’t slept in three damn days
Yeah, but who needs that anyway
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Loud thunder heavy rain
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
A long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Loud thunder heavy rain
Loud thunder heavy rain
My friend David, was a good kid
He had my back, always knew he did
He was different than most
And maybe I was too
Hanging out with the in-crowd just wasn’t our thing
There was a whole lot more
Than we could see on these plains
Well, some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around
It’s college or trade school for those with the means
There’s never been any small town for those in between
Yeah the poor folks they go to work, or they go to war
I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps
And I got back, nothing looked the same anymore
I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit
Things have changed
By then David had a daughter and a son
And a rap sheet to prove all the time that he’d done
He was just a burned out beat down shell of my old friend
And on a three day binge he was speeding through town
And I bumped the wailers just to try and slow him down
He didn’t know that it was me, and he took off
Oh how things change
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
It was a hell of a rain I don’t know if he’d drowned
Or if he died on impact, it must have rolled three times
Yeah, the only thing to make matters worse
Is that his mama’s a late night ER nurse
And he was DOA, she just about lost her mind
David’s wife drops by every once in a while
And childhood stories always make her smile
But somehow we always go back to that day
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
It was a hell of a rain, I don’t know if he’d drowned
Or if he died on impact, it must have rolled three times
Yeah, the only thing to make matters worse
Is that his mama’s a late night ER nurse
And he was DOA, she just about lost her mind
Ain’t it the times
You’re thinking of leavin’ tonight
Go on and go
If you’re sure it’s the right thing to do
You know I was never the kind for draggin’ things out
And I thought neither were you
It hurts me to see you unhappy, and it hurts me to know
It’s me that’s made you that way
So maybe it’s me that should go
So you don’t go on hatin’
Us both for just one more day
Out on the line walkin’ the tightrope
It ain’t always easy
But I’ve always been true
You don’t have to tell me
If you’d done any different
God only knows it’s how this one goes
Is it me or you
If I may just leave you one question
What took so long
What’s kept you around all this time
If I’d known somethin’ was wrong
I might could’a changed things
it’s too late and it seems that I’m blind
I’ve been so wrong for so long
With no way of knowing, what for
At least I’d have tried if I’d known
But it don’t matter, anymore
Out on the line walkin’ the tightrope
It ain’t always easy
But I’ve always been true
You don’t have to tell me
If you’d done any different
God only knows it’s how this one goes
Is it me or you
God only knows it’s how this one goes
Is it me or you?
Some folks like to look, they like to point
They like to push, they like to shove
Some folks like to talk about the things they have
The things they love
But things are that, just things, and I don’t give a damn
I must seem trite
I’m not that old, I’m not too young
I’m not too smart, I sure ain’t dumb
I walked around and round and round, most every place
I’ve been found and all I’ve found
Is most places usually seem the same to me
And I talk to people off the street, my line of work
I tend to meet the kind of folk that seem like-minded
Those of us just trying to find our way
So let’s just meet up at some place
We can sort it out
And I talk with people off the street, my line of work
I tend to meet the kind of folk that seem like-minded
Those of us just trying to find our way
So let’s just meet up at some place
We can sort it out
This God-forsaken world, it chews you up and spits you out
It scuffs your shoes, it takes most everything you got
And then it tries you with the blues
But that’s alright
The blues is somethin’ proves that you still feel
Some folks like to look, they like to point
They like to push, they like to shove
Some folks like to talk about the things they have
The things they love
But things are that, just things, and I don’t give a damn
And I’m alright
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
I’m ready for the times to get better
I’ve got to tell you I’ve been racking my brain
Hopin’ to find a way out
I’ve had enough of this continual rain
Changes are comin’ no doubt
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
And I’m ready for the times to get better
You seem to want from me what I cannot give
I feel so lonesome at times
I have a dream that I wish I could live
It’s burning holes in my mind
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
And I’m ready for the times to get better
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
And I’m ready for the times to get better
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
I’m ready for the times to get better
It’s been a too long time with no peace of mind
I’m ready for the times to get better
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
I remember that summer
I was ten years old
When our days, ceased to shine
No, you could not take a breath
When those black blizzards came
Strippin’ land, in dire need of rain
There was dirt on the floor
As mama swept all day long
Leavin’ trails of tears and mud down her face
There was dirt in our beds
And there was dirt in our clothes
And there was dirt, in the little that we ate
We had heard about the market’s fall
A couple years before
But the fields and the harvest all seemed fine
Sometimes the things that kill us
That which we don’t know
That strip the land of everything but pride
Stay close together
That’s all we knew to get by
I recall a helpless feelin’
First time that I saw my father cry
Lookin’ back on everything we had, on everything we lost
Still makes me wonder, was stayin’ worth the cost
Alot of town folk up and left
They boarded up the schools and banks and the churches
And that to me, was wrong
Come next year it would be better
Will the last one standin’ tall before the walls
Show the most resolve
They announced the New Deal
With the Conservation Act and then the Relief Fund
But we were on our knees
There was little hope by then
So we just stood there in that line
And we thanked the man for that little bit of cheese
Stay close together
That’s all we knew to get by
And I recall a helpless feelin’
The first time that I saw my father cry
Lookin’ back on everything we had, on everything we lost
Still makes me wonder, was stayin’ worth the cost?
I don’t wanna rock and roll no more
At least not the way I did, back before
That life tried to kill me
To tell the truth it never thrilled me
I don’t wanna rock and roll no more
I don’t wanna rock and roll
I don’t need that whiskey anymore
Least not the way I did back before
That stuff tried to kill me
To tell the truth it never thrilled me
I don’t want that whiskey anymore
I don’t need that whiskey
I don’t mean to disappoint you
But there’s chance I’m going to
Some people only like me when I’m stoned
Yeah the crowd was a whole lot bigger
But I just can’t remember
I don’t need that whiskey anymore
I don’t need that whiskey
I don’t wanna miss you anymore
I just want you right here in my arms
This ol’ life still trying to kill me
You’re the only thing that’s filled me
I don’t wanna miss you anymore
I don’t wanna miss you
And I don’t mean to disappoint you
But you know I’m goin to
Sometimes I’d lay it all down and come back home
Yeah, the crowd was a whole lot bigger
When you were right there in the center
I don’t wanna miss you anymore
I don’t need that whiskey anymore
I don’t wanna rock and roll
No I’m not goin’ crazy, but lately my head and my heart
Seem to be at least a million miles apart
My heart says to love ya, my head says to run
It’s like my heart is too afraid to tell my head what it’s done
I know that it can never be the way it was
Even though you’ll be the death of me I can’t give you up
Too much is not enough; it’s not the love, it’s not the lust that grips me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
It must be the whiskey
Oh I’m not goin’ crazy, but lately these thoughts in my head
Are a whirlwind of a world of a million regrets
All the things I should’ve done, all the things I should’ve said
All the pain that comes with hatin’ the mess you’ve made of yourself
I know I’m chasin’ rainbows thinkin’ I could make it work
But the fact is that my actions speak louder than my words
And it only makes it worse thinkin’ of her, thinkin’ she’ll forgive me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
Sometimes it hits me whenever I’m a little tipsy
Oh, it hits me whenever I’m a little tipsy
It must be the whiskey
It must be the whiskey
It must be the whiskey
It’s that whiskey
It must be the whiskey
I got a half a six pack of Old Milwaukee
And a half a bag of weed
I can’t do it like I did when I was a kid
This is all I’m going to need
Because I know you always worry about me drinking my dinner
But I don’t do that anymore
I got me a sweet girl at home
She’s keeping food on the table
And at night she keeps me warm
So I’ve got me this piece of paper
And I got my favorite pen
I know it’s been a little while
And talking’s not my style
So I just had to write my friend
Hey I’m doing alright Mamma
I’m ok, I know your late night talks with Jesus
Have helped me on my way
I know it wasn’t always easy
Raising my father’s son
And your son will be alright
If the shows keep comin’
This old guitar and me are still strummin’
I know you always knew I always took it way too far
But I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing ok
You remember the time when I was stuck in L.A.
And I didn’t have a job
And I didn’t have a way to pay the bills that I racked up
Yeah, you kept me from losing my truck
Yeah, I’m a little better off now
Than I was then
But it’s sure nice to see you calling me when
I’m out there on the road
Yeah, you calling to say have a good show
Hey I’m doing alright Mamma
I’m ok, I know your late night talks with Jesus
Have helped me on my way
I know it wasn’t always easy
Raising my father’s son
And your son will be alright
If the shows keep comin’
This old guitar and me are still strummin’
I know you always knew I always took it way too far
But I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing alright now Mamma
I’m doing ok
My friend David, was a good kid
He had my back, always knew he did
He was different than most
And maybe I was too
Hanging out with the in-crowd just wasn’t our thing
There was a whole lot more
Than we could see on these plains
Well, some people just seem to get stuck, and hang around
It’s college or trade school for those with the means
There’s never been any small town for those in between
Yeah the poor folks they go to work, or they go to war
I did fifteen hundreds days in the corps
And I got back, nothing looked the same anymore
I got on with the local police, it just seemed to fit
Things have changed
By then David had a daughter and a son
And a rap sheet to prove all the time that he’d done
He was just a burned out beat down shell of my old friend
And on a three day binge he was speeding through town
And I bumped the wailers just to try and slow him down
He didn’t know that it was me, and he took off
Oh how things change
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
It was a hell of a rain I don’t know if he’d drowned
Or if he died on impact, it must have rolled three times
Yeah, the only thing to make matters worse
Is that his mama’s a late night ER nurse
And he was DOA, she just about lost her mind
David’s wife drops by every once in a while
And childhood stories always make her smile
But somehow we always go back to that day
And I found his truck in the floodplain upside down
It was a hell of a rain, I don’t know if he’d drowned
Or if he died on impact, it must have rolled three times
Yeah, the only thing to make matters worse
Is that his mama’s a late night ER nurse
And he was DOA, she just about lost her mind
Ain’t it the times
Where does time go, It’s gone away
Time was on my side, yesterday
So much can change, between then and now
Where does time go
Where do dreams die, along the way
Dreams are all we had, yesterday
Who told all the vampires of the world
They were welcome anyway
Where do dreams die
Who gave who the message
Who gave who the hands of time
Who gave who the job to take, reason and the rhyme
Like another Holden Caulfield
I’m a Catcher in the Rye
Who told who to take the dreams out back to die
Who told who to take the dreams out back to die
Who gave who the message
Who gave who the hands of time
Who gave who the job to take, reason and the rhyme
Like another Holden Caulfield
I’m a Catcher in the Rye
Who told who to take the dreams out back to die
Who told who to take the dreams out back to die
Who gave who the message
Who gave who the hands of time
Who gave who the message
Who gave who the hands of time
Who told all the vampires of the world
They were welcome anyway
My whole view of the word has changed
I guess that comes with age
I don’t believe there’s good in every man
Like I did back then
I may drink more than I should
You’ve seen me on the floor
Spend my lifetime in this cage, I built around me
Bangin’ on the doors
And no words
Could ever say how much I need you
With you here
You make this life I lead worth living
Heaven knows I broke your heart
I can’t take that away
All I’m worth is just this promise that I’ve made to you
To stand beside you just like you have stood beside me
And no words
Could ever say how much I need you
With you here
You make this life I lead worth living
You could be much better off
God knows without me
And that’s why
I just can’t find the words
You could be much better off
God knows without me
And that’s why
I just can’t find the words
I don’t run from guilt you see my conscience lets me know at least a thousand times or better every day
Things I’ve done mistakes I’ve made, raised feelings I’ll lay in some grave if ever I am finally laid to rest
If there’s time to pray before I die, I pray dear Lord you know that I was a righteous man that somehow lost his way
Face me down when I shall pass so the world can kiss my ass and Hell can’t come and get me from behind
I’ve danced in the flames and I’ve been burned
I’ve walked on the harder side of life, I’ve takin’ all the wrong turns
I’ve been around
I’ve been down
And I’ve been wasted
I fight with myself
sometimes I lose
I got me an angel on my shoulder, but I’ve got the devil too, I get down
I get around and I get wasted
Twenty-seven years along I’ve tried to make them right all wrong and I’ve nearly died a few times on my way
Well I’ve seen the face of God first hand and I’ve danced with the devil man, I’ve needed help and grab for both of their hands
I’ve danced in the flames and I’ve been burned
I’ve walked on the harder side of life, I’ve takin’ all the wrong turns
I’ve been around
I’ve been down
And I’ve been wasted
I fight with myself, sometimes I lose
I got me an angel on my shoulder, but I’ve got the devil too, I get down
I get around and I get wasted
I fight with myself
Sometimes I lose
I got me an angel on my shoulder, but I’ve got the devil too
I get down I get around and I get wasted
I don’t run from guilt you see my conscience lets me know at least a thousand times or better every day
Daddy must’ve told her when she was sixteen
Don’t settle for a poor man’s diamond ring
Take a lesson from your mama, girl, it ain’t no shame
To find a man with some money and a big last name
She wore that crown at the Rose Parade
All them boys starin’ at her thinkin’ maybe someday
All their credit put together couldn’t get her to the game
She wants a man with some money and a big last name
She’s had the pick of the litter since the day she was born
Ain’t nothin’ good enough in this town
She’s a product of her mama, she gets what she wants
Ain’t layin’ that silver spoon down
She wants to be in a picture in a gold-leaf frame
With a man with some money and a big last name
She’s had the pick of the litter since the day she was born
Ain’t nothin’ good enough in this town
She’s a product of her mama, she gets what she wants
Ain’t layin’ that silver spoon down
She wants to be in a picture in a gold-leaf frame
With a man with some money and a big last name
Man with some money and a big last name
Well she met a rich banker down in San Antone
He had a pre-nup ready for her name to be on
The she came home early to a pretty young thing
In bed with some money and a big last name
In bed with some money and a big last name
In bed with some money and a big last name
I know it’s hard to find the words so often standin’ face-to-face
Sometimes it takes a thin white sheet to put things into place
Things that I could never say come floodin’ out somehow upon these lines
I’m still fightin’ the same battles I’ve been fightin’ all these years
A dreamer is not a dreamer unless you’re livin’ with a fear
What they say will be forgotten, all that’s done will be for naught
And why
And it’s been a long time, Lord, since I sat down and had a cry
It’s sometimes overwhelmin’ and I can’t tell ya why
But I remember Jackson singin’ “Doctor, doctor, please
My eyes
And my heroes, they’re all dyin’ or they’re sittin’ in a cell
Due to years of medicatin’ minds that hurt so well
There’s a thin line, don’t you see, between genius and insanity
Which am I
One thing that scares the hell in me is livin’ with mortality
And worryin’ that I’m insane talkin’ to a God unseen
Must surely make me crazy, so crazy’s what I’ll be
‘Til I’m gone
‘Til I’m gone
And I’ll scream out to the sun and to the moon and to the stars
I’ll scream until my voice finds you, no matter where you are
I’ll scream until I’ve got no breath and all that’s left to take is death
And I’m done
When I’m done
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Couldn’t have ever dawned on me
All the things that I would be I
I never really looked out quite that far
It’s never been a simple thing
To see the world with a young man’s brain, with
An old man’s heart, restless soul
Yeah, my family went broke in my eighteenth year
Dad took a job many miles from here that
That was alright by me I was on my own
I had a band, found a job, life was alright
I worked when I had to, we played all the time, only
Got through that first year of college, alright
But I learned more on the freight docks
Driving forklifts on the 3 o’clock
AM shift In the winter time, man it got cold
Selling guitars on the west coast
Going hungry, chasin’ ghost around and around we would go
And I saw it all tendin’ bar at night
Treatin’ saints and sinners right
It’s a good thing to do all the time
You never know who you’re talkin’ to
But always know who’s watching you
Keep your feet movin’ straight down the line
I’ve known a lot of real good men
Grad school or no school
I’ve called em’ my friends, I’m
I’m Somewhere in the Middle and that’s just fine
No, I don’t give a damn how much money you make
If your last shirt has pockets, take all you can take, I’m
I’m goin’ out with nothin’ like I came in
Cause I learned more on the freight docks
Driving forklifts on the 3 o’clock
AM shift In the winter time, man it got cold
Selling guitars on the west coast
Going hungry, chasin’ ghost around and around we would go
And I saw it all tendin’ bar at night
Treatin’ saints and sinners right
It’s a good thing, to do all the time
You never know who you’re talkin’ to
But always know who’s watching you
Keep your feet movin’ straight down the line
But I learned more on the freight docks
Driving forklifts on the 3 o’clock
AM shift In the winter time, man it got cold
Selling guitars on the west coast
Going hungry, chasin’ ghost around and around we would go
And I saw it all tendin’ bar at night
Treatin’ saints and sinners right
It’s a good thing to do all the time
You never know who you’re talkin’ to
But always know who’s watching you
Keep your feet movin’ straight down the line
Somewhere in the middle and that’s just fine
Somewhere in the middle and that’s just fine
I’ve played every honky tonk and roadside bar and juke joint
Between here and Minneapolis
You know I’ve lived these miles
There’s a Haggard man behind these eyes and smile
I picked up the guitar ’round the time I turned fourteen
Lit that fire, been burnin’ tires, hard booze, both ends and gasoline
Stayin’ wired
Come back down the best that we know how
We know now
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit ’cause I can’t quit enough
I’ve felt all the pressures playin’ to an empty room
And the pleasures of a crowd that’s singin’ loud to every word to all my songs
But the band and me, Lord, keep rollin’ on
We roll on
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit ’cause I can’t quit enough
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit cause I can’t quit enough
I’ll never quit cause I can’t quit enough
I’m not the devil you think that I am
It ain’t no excuse, but I’m just a man
I slipped and I fell, it got outta hand
But I’m not the devil you think that I am
It wasn’t no gun, held to my head
I got caught up believing, in lies that were said
In a moment of weakness
I stumbled and I made my bed
I’m not the devil you think that I am
It ain’t no excuse, but I’m just a man
I slipped and I fell, it got outta hand
But I’m not the devil you think that I am
There’s 10,000 reasons
For you not to stay
And no one would blame you
If you want it that way
It might take some time
But I’ll show, you that I’m worth the wait
I’m not the devil you think that I am
It ain’t no excuse, but I’m just a man
I slipped and I fell, it got outta hand
But I’m not the devil you think that I am
And I’ll spend forever, do all that I can
To prove I’m Not The Devil you think that I am
And I’m not the devil
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
Somewhere between I need you and lettin’ go
And it scares me so when I look hard I find no good reasons
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
Somewhere between I miss you and I’m gone
Runnin’ hard through the middle of the night, and you spend yours alone
I hold you close then I let you go, no leavin’ well-enough alone
I’m somewhere between I miss you and I’m gone
And the ties that bind, they hold my mind
No matter where I go, I’m alone
Here with you or out there tearin’ down some road
Nowhere is home
And you’re the only thing on earth that I believe in
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
And the ties that bind, they hold my mind
No matter where I go, I’m alone
Here with you or out there tearin’ down some road
Nowhere is home
And you’re the only thing on earth that I believe in
I can stay or I can go and not break even
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
Daddy won a radio,
He tuned it to a country show.
I was rockin’ in the cradle
To the cryin’ of a steel guitar.
Mama used to sing to me.
She taught me that sweet harmony.
Now she worries cause never thought
I’d ever really take it this far.
Singin’ in the bars and
Chasin’ that neon rainbow
Livin’ that honky-tonk dream,
Cause all I’ve ever wanted is to
Pick this guitar and sing.
Just tryin’ to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen.
A chasin’ that neon rainbow
Livin’ that honky-tonk dream.
An atlas and a coffee cup,
5 pickers in an old Dodge truck,
Headin’ down to Houston for a show
On Saturday night.
This overhead is killin’ me,
Half the time I sing for free,
But when the crowd’s in to it Lord
It makes this thing I’m doin’ seem right.
Standin’ in the spotlight.
Chasin’ that neon rainbow
I’m a livin’ that honky-tonk dream.
Cause all I’ve ever wanted is to
Pick this guitar and sing
Just tryin’ to be somebody,
That’s want to be heard and seen,
Chasin’ that neon rainbow,
Livin’ that honky-tonk dream
Daddy’s got a radio
He won it 30 years ago.
He said “Son I just know we’re gonna
Hear you sing on it some day”.
I made it up to Music Row
Lordy don’t the wheels turn slow.
Still I wouldn’t trade a minute,
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Just show me to the stage, I’m
Chasin’ that neon rainbow,
I’m a livin’ that honky-tonk dream,
Cause all I’ve ever wanted,
Is to pick this guitar and sing.
Just tryin’ to be somebody
That’s wanna be heard and seen.
Chasin’ that neon rainbow,
Livin’ that honky-tonk dream.
Oh I’m chasin’ that neon rainbow,
Livin’ that honky-tonk dream.
California’s still on fire
And it don’t rain no more in Texas
There’s a few less ice caps way up north of here
Mother Russia stays pissed-off
Yeah, she’s got some big old bombs
Still throwin’ around her weight after all these years
And the price of gasoline is enough to make you scream
Yeah, the cost of livin’ goes up and the pay goes down
I don’t care what’s right or left, y’all
I’m just out here with the rest
In the middle class, that still means broke to me
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
I’m tellin’ what the blue collar man is goin’ thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
And the politicians will never know
How to let their egos go
No, they could not give two damns ’bout you and me
Yeah, but they still got their pensions
With some tactics they’d rather not mention
That’s the price we pay for them livin’ free
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
All the trouble a blue collar man is goin’ thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
What else is new? I’m tellin’ you
All the trouble a blue collar man is goin thru
We don’t let no bad news hang around
It’s the same old situation
All the problems facin’ our great nation
So to hell to all those bringin’ that bad news down
All to hell with all those bringin’ that bad news down
All to hell with all those bringin’ that bad news down
I’ve seen the sun for the first time
In a week or so
I wipe the sleep from my eyes
I’ve got nowhere to go
A cup of coffee in my hand
I’ve got me a smoke
There nothing doin’, I just wanna be alone
The right end of the sunrise
It sure looks nice
To see a new day taking shape
Not startin’ with no night
Well I been rollin’ along on a thin dime
And I’m happy to be home
Please forgive me, I just wanna be alone
Well I’m gonna finish this pot of coffee
And I’m gonna put me another on
Well I might grab my thread-bear Martin
And pick me out a song
I know I’ll sit right here, I’ll smoke one more
And just enjoy the dawn
I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Spent my lifetime runnin’ around
It suits me fine
Shakin’ hands and one night stands
That’s what gets me by
But the days gettin’ short
And the songs gettin’ long
It’s time to go
No, I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Well I’m gonna finish this pot of coffee
And I’m gonna put me another on
Well I might grab my thread-bear Martin
And pick me out a song
I know I’ll sit right here, I’ll smoke one more
And just enjoy the dawn
Now I’m not angry, I just wanna be alone
Please forgive me, I just wanna be alone
There’s nothin’ doin’, I just wanna be alone
I didn’t wanna shoot that man
But he heard that I was fast
You know that liquor gave him the courage
To put a man to the ground
But nobody saw
I couldn’t claim no self-defense
So I took off with the morning sun,
Running from my sins
I ended up in every town
Where all the bad men go
And they’ve been running just like me
Someone always knows
He’ll say, “Ain’t you the man who shot that boy?”
Who wanted his turn to dance
So will I die in some street that night
No never had a chance
I never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
Ain’t going to be nothing in hell
I haven’t lived through here
I’m just going to walk out
and wish you all goodnight
I never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
I ended up in Fort Worth
‘Cause no one knows me here
And time has a funny way
of taken away the years
But I don’t mind the changes
Or the age that’s in my face
Because there is a piece of my soul
In every man I’ve killed
In every God forsaken place
Never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
Ain’t going to be nothing in hell
I haven’t lived through here
I’m just going to walk out
yeah tonight I’ll save your life
I never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
I walk around on pins and needles
Around people I can’t even name
I keep on passin’ church steeples
Prayin’ that my God is still the same
I been wanderin’ like a fool too blind to see
Maybe it ain’t the bottle that I need
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
Lost in a land of smoke and mirrors
I do my best to just stay clear of my yesterdays
I’ve been runnin’ so long, now I’m runnin’ from myself
Tired of runnin’ away
I’m still tryin’ to get through to the man I wanna be
Maybe I’m not so gone that I can’t see
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
(Holy, holy water)
I need a shot of holy water (holy, holy water)
I need a shot of holy water (holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
And it’s gonna get hard, for it gets easy, I oughta know
I hear the voice of Jesus and I hear the devil talkin’
Just the same
And it seems they’re tryin’ to talk over each other
Any given day
I’ve lived the words in red so many times
By now I thought that I might see
I guess I’m sayin’ this life just ain’t the way
I thought that it might be
I been wanderin’ down the hallways
Ya’ll roads just like some kid out skippin’ school
By the time that I was seventeen
I figured I was done with all the rules
I turn 35 this year and I’m still runnin’ hard
For somethin’ I can’t see
The only thing in life that’s guaranteed
There are no guarantees
And it’s gonna get hard for it gets easy, I oughta know
It’s gonna take a lotta rain, for the seed you planted, starts to grow
The more I know, the more I know that I don’t know
I know nothin’s free
And there ain’t no guarantees
The more I know, the more I know that I don’t know
I know nothin’s free
And there ain’t no guarantees
And it’s gonna get hard for it gets easy, I oughta know
It’s gonna take a lotta rain, for the seed you planted, starts to grow
The more I know, the more I know that I don’t know
I know nothin’s free
And there ain’t no guarantees
He wakes with the chickens and the Waco sun
He’s got mouths to feed and cattle to run
Same as his daddy and his daddy done
It’s all he’s ever known
In this modern world movin’ break-neck fast
He’s a dyin’ breed, a thing of the past
He’ll be damned if he don’t hit back
If you stand in his way
When there’s nothin’ more to say
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
She’s a renaissance girl with a fire in her soul
She’s got a pocket full of nothin’, nobody tells her no
She flew into town twenty years ago
With a guitar and a song
She’s been playin’ them rooms but she ain’t got far
Been livin’ off tips in them Broadway bars
She’s a troubadour queen but time left its mark
The scene’s passed her by
In a world that’s passed her by
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
No they don’t give up and they don’t give in
When things don’t go their way
Yeah we’re getting’ knocked down
Yeah we’re getting’ back up
Live to die another day
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
I cast no stones
I build no walls
And I tell the truth
The truth comes to call
And I try to walk
That narrow way
Sometimes I go over the lines
And I won’t make it back till the next day
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
I don’t talk with Jesus
As much as I should
I don’t read that good book
Everyday like I could
But I like to stop
At the end of the day
I pray that I hurt nobody
And somebody new found their way
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
But I cast no stones
What gives you the right
To tell me my business
Good God man your out of your mind
So put up your Bible
Or let me get mine
I’m not draggin’ the whole world to hell
You’re wasting my time
Say a prayer for me brother
And I’ll see you on down the line
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Even though our love might’ve gone down burnin’
Like the sunset on the mountains out in Vail
And our best days might have been some I’d forgotten
But our worst days I remember much too well
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
I look back to when we carved our names in marble
On an aspen by the cabin where we stayed
And I wonder if that tree’s still strong and standin’
Despite the broken promises we made
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Pistons pumpin’
Minds are racin’
It’s hard to sleep man
When I’m shakin’
Bad news surrounds me
Its always found me
Creeping up when things are good
Yeah the dark days find a way
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
The camera captures
All the things that
Make us turn from
What we see
It’s always moving
It don’t stop rolling
I haven’t slept in three damn days
Yeah, but who needs that anyway
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
It’s a long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Living life through the night
Thin line of a lightning strike
Sometimes the only light
When the moon is tucked away
Loud thunder heavy rain
Loud thunder heavy rain
Thin line between joy and pain
A long strange trip it’s all insane
You ain’t never gonna be the same
Loud thunder heavy rain
Loud thunder heavy rain
Well I started on the whiskey pretty early this morning
That’s alright, I was up all night
But I passed out before the sun came up
I really wanted to see one of those
I know that’s no way for a man to behave
With a mortgage due and a baby on the way
But somehow I made it to where I’m at
It’s been a living as a matter of fact
I get a bad attitude from being tired and running ‘round
I never ask for anyone to say they like my sound
I’ve never been a part of any musical scene
I ain’t just talking Nashville, if you know what I mean
They don’t write about me, in their magazines
And I don’t ask for no reviews on the songs that I sing
I never had a lot of friends and I’m alright by that
But people keep on coming back
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
They don’t care about no trends
They don’t care about songs that sell
Yeah, tomorrow I’ll be gone
So tonight everybody just sing along
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
I’ve been standing on the outside for all of my life
But I like the view, I’m not gonna lie
Yeah, the yuppies and the hipsters and the wannabe scenes
That ain’t down home to me
I like two dollar beers, I like three dollar wells
At some old honky tonk bar that I know by the smell
Some old drunk on a bar stool on a Merle Haggard tune
That’s my kind of room
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
They don’t care about no trends
They don’t care about songs that sell
Yeah, tomorrow I’ll be gone
So tonight everybody just sing along
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
They don’t care about no trends
They don’t care about songs that sell
Yeah, tomorrow I’ll be gone
So tonight everybody just sing along
Raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
And I’ll be raising hell with the hippies and the cowboys
I lost my way
I lost track
My heart and all my money
The shirt off my back
Then I found a place
To lie and rest
Clear the cloudy skies of my mind
Clean up my mess
I’m not sure if this is prayer, or if it’s plea
Beggin’ or hopin’ or my insanity
You’re my first clean breath after the fire
You’re that cool drink of water my soul requires
Are you the sunshine
Are you are the rain
You light my darkness
You wash my pain
You’re I love you in a world of doubt
Fill me with somethin’, I can’t go without
I’m not sure if this is a prayer or if it’s plea
Beggin’ or hopin’ or my insanity
You’re my first clean breath after the fire
You’re the cool drink of water my soul requires
Livin’ on wings and wheels
In my mind or made of steel
If you ain’t running scared and rough
Then you ain’t running fast enough for me
Behind the 8 ball ain’t always a bad place to be
You can get out of anything with a dollar and a dream
When your back against the wall your fixed
But they can’t get you from your six, you know
Maybe holdin’ on to something hurts you more than lettin’ go
It hit ain’t hurtin’ maybe it ain’t workin’, it ain’t worth it no.
Maybe that rain that brings the thunder, will help put out the flames
Maybe the light at the end of the tunnel ain’t a train
Maybe holdin’ on to something hurts you more than lettin’ go
It it ain’t hurtin’ maybe it ain’t workin’, it ain’t worth it no.
Maybe that rain that brings the thunder, will help put out the flames
Maybe the light at the end of the tunnel ain’t a train
Maybe the light at the end of the tunnel ain’t a train
Let’s do yesterday again
Turn back the hands of time
And maybe in the morning
I’ll still be yours and you still mine
Let’s not worry about tomorrow
Tomorrow has to end
We both woke up here together
Let’s do yesterday again
Can you give me one good reason
Both still lying here
The fightins’ over now we’re even
We’ve said our peace we’ve shed our tears
If we’re holdin’ on to nothin’
Be nothing’ left to mend
We both know that it’s not over
Let’s do yesterday again
Who’s to say how longs’ forever
Or the time we’ll have to spend
Let’s not waste another minute
Let’s do yesterday again
We both know that we’re still in it
Let’s do yesterday again
Tell’em what it’s like Bec, because they think they want to know
Beyond the lights, beyond the show, what it is
Tell’em what it’s like Bec, to live with a man who’s never there
To wonder if he even cares when he’s gone
He’s always gone, here or there
Tell’em what it’s like Bec, to be someone some love to hate
Your pretty smile and all your grace, it wears you thin
Tell’em what it’s like Bec, when I’m curled up on the floor
And I can’t take it anymore and I’m a mess
Tell’em what it’s like
They can’t hear, they won’t believe
What it’s really like to love a man like me
But your actions they speak louder than some drunk girl in the crowd
Who wants to talk about how you make it when I leave
Tell’em what it’s like to love a man like me
They can’t hear, they won’t believe
What it’s really like to love a man like me
But my actions will speak louder than some drunk girl in the crowd
Who wants to talk about where I’m going when I leave
Tell’em what it’s like to love a man like me
You can be proud to love a man like me
Tell’em what it’s like to love a man like me
The good book holds the reasons
I believe the way I do
And all I needed to know
I was taught in Sunday school
But I lived like those rules
Were for everyone but me
With selfish disregard
For how it hurt my family
I staggered down the hall to our bed
She helped steady me and said
How can you think like you think
Turn around and drink like you drink
You can barely stand up when you kneel down to pray
How can you tell our children to be strong
And fight temptation in a world gone wrong
How can you think like you think and drink like you drink
Bless that girl that looks out for me
With the faith and the love of a saint
Give me the strength to make sure that she
Never again has to say
How can you think like you think and drink like you drink
You can barely stand up when you kneel down to pray
How can you tell our children to be strong
And fight temptation in a world gone wrong
How can you think like you think and drink like you drink
How can you think like you think and drink like you drink
William, where you been?
I’ve been waiting on you since only God knows when
William, come on in
There’s so much to do, so glad to see you again
I haven’t been worried so much as I’ve been anxious
I haven’t been sad, for the reason in the rhyme
I haven’t been cryin’, that’s something that don’t happen
I believed you’d make it here in your sweet time
William, I’ve so much to say
I started us a garden when I got here that June day
William, c’mon this way
Meet our little boy that died on his birthday
We haven’t been worried so much as we’ve been anxious
We haven’t been sad, for the reason in the rhyme
We haven’t been cryin’, that’s something that don’t happen
I told em’ you’d be up here some sweet time
Wanda, quit pickin’ at me
I’ve been running late since 1953
Wanda, slow down just be
Hold my hand while I rock this boy to sleep
I haven’t been worried so much as I’ve been anxious
I’ve been sad but there’s redrawn in the rhyme
I’ve done a lot of crying, that’s something just happens
I hoped I’d make it up here some sweet time
I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
And I’ll have every chance to keep it right
I’ve got a good woman at home
So I’ll be leaving here alone
Well I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
I can smoke and I can drink
Till I can hardly speak or think
I can stumble drunk my way across the floor
I can dance and act a fool upon that bar or on that stool
Choose to do damn near anything this side of those swinging doors
But I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
And I’ll have every chance to keep it right
I’ve got a good woman at home
So I’ll be leaving here alone
Well I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
You can try to catch my eye
Wonder if I’m so inclined
To allow my better judgment to go astray
But now wonderings all you’ll do
Cause I’ve got way too much to lose
One night of so called heaven
Ain’t worth the hell I’d pay
But I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
And I’ll have every chance to keep it right
I’ve got a good woman at home
So I’ll be leaving here alone
Well I’ve got one good decision to make tonight
So run along with me
We can save the world
Playing make believe
Starts with a boy and a girl
Lay me down to rest tonight
Hold me close I’ll hold you tight
Close your eyes, we’ll fall in deep
Tonight I’ll meet you in our dream
Tonight I’ll meet you in our dream
So run along with me
We can change the world
Show what love can be
Just this boy and his girl
Lay me down to rest tonight
Hold me close, I’ll hold you tight
Close your eyes, we’ll fall in deep
Tonight I’ll meet you in our dream
Tonight I’ll meet you in our dream
Tonight I’ll meet you in our dream
When all our days are done
And our time has come
Know I’ve only dreamed
I’ve only dreamed with one
I used to dream of fame and fortune
I used to wanna be a star
It was the greatest aspiration
In my naïve stubborn heart
But with the years I have grown wiser
Learned without love there’s no use
Now I’d rather be a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
I used to dream of fame and fortune
I used to wanna be a star
It was the greatest aspiration
In my naïve stubborn heart
But with the years I have grown wiser
Learned without love there ain’t no use
Now I’d rather be a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
I have traded many memories
I’ve gambled with my time
Along a jealous lonesome highway
All for a vision in my mind
I’ve lost friends and I’ve burned bridges
I’ve gone broke from payin’ dues
Now I’d rather be a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
Neon lights and crowded dancehalls
Make you wanna to go too far
Made my way out of the honkytonks
Just to learn they’re all bars
So if one day I finally make it
If this foolish dream comes true
Just know I’d rather be a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
Neon lights and crowded dancehalls
Make you wanna to go too far
Made my way out of the honkytonks
Just to learn they’re all bars
So if one day I finally make it
If this foolish dream comes true
Just know I’d rather be a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
I’d be better off a no one
If I ain’t someone to you
From the mornin’
Through the day
And on through the night
Like the stinging
Or the burning of a slowly turning knife
I ache now just to hold you
Make you feel my love
If only the wanting was enough
I may never live this feeling down
That’s the one sure thing I’ve found
Better lost in love
Than never tried at all
I have found, in this life
There’s are two ways can fall
I wish I could start it over
Wishing don’t mean much
If only the wanting was enough
I may never let this feeling down
That’s the one sure thing I’ve found
I wish I could start over
Wishing don’t mean much
If only the wanting was enough
I may never live this feeling down
That’s the one sure thing I’ve found
I may never live this feeling down
I can’t want you anymore
I don’t go to church on Sunday
I don’t go to work on Monday
I sleep until I wake up
Whiskey in my coffee cup
And I take what the good Lord gave
That’s the shovel that digs my grave
I never really had a plan
But everybody knows where I stand
And, in all my friends I see
The same kind of crazy as me
There’s more colors than red and blue
To paint the elephant in the room
We piss and moan about that and this
Always another ass to kiss
But I believe that freedom rings
I believe in the songs we sing
I have a funny way you see
Of what the world might someday be
Why can’t they just let it be
The same kind of crazy as me
There ain’t a single thing we own
We’ll take with us when we’re gone
So I’ll just walk the earth a while
Lend a hand and leave a smile
And who knows how the whole thing ends
You can’t tell me where or when
So I’ll just pray that when I’m done
I meet the Father and the Son, and
If I’m right they’ll be
The same kind of crazy as me
There ain’t a single thing we own
We’ll take with us when we’re gone
So I’ll just walk the earth a while
Lend a hand and leave a smile
And who knows how the whole thing ends
You can’t tell me where or when
So I’ll just pray that when I’m done
I meet the Father and the Son, and
If I’m right they’ll be
The same kind of crazy as me
Same kind of crazy as me
Same kind of crazy as me
Same kind of crazy as me
Backside of thirty came fast, but what’s more
I can’t remember younger days like before and it’s a shame
I’ve done more runnin’ than most any age
Whole lot of prayin’ on the backside of a stage, scared to death
Wondering what’s next
And I take the long way around every time
As fast as I can through the comfort of night and it’s a fight
People who love me they suffer the most
See me on TV and all they see’s a ghost of someone they knew
They’re tellin’ the truth
Never alone always lonely
Easy to find, seldom seen
Never alone always lonely
On a fast train
Through a slow moving dream
Never alone always lonely
Easy to find seldom seen
Never alone always lonely
On a fast train
Through a slow moving dream
Never alone always lonely
Easy to find seldom seen
On a fast train
Through a slow moving dream
I’ve never been the kind to just turn and run
Never lost a battle with a loaded gun
Never been confused about who I am
Or what I think it takes for me to be a man
But lately it’s been hell just trying to get by
Livin’ like I’m livin’ on a borrowed dime
Watchin’ my friends as they’re all having fun
Whiskey won’t you help me make it through this one
Cause I don’t mind
I’ll sit here and keep on grinnin’, drowned my head and keep on livin’,
I don’t mind
Guess I’ll drink another bottle and drown another sorrow
I don’t mind
I can’t wait another minute, won’t you help me to forget it again
Well tonight’s been slower than it’s ever been
Staring at the clock at closing time again
The bartender tells me it’s time to go
Got a bottle of the venom waiting back at home
Come tomorrow I’ll probably buy some more
Black Label Even Williams from the liquor store
Back to the bar until my drinkins done
Whiskey won’t you help me make it through this one
Cause I don’t mind
I’ll sit here and keep on grinnin’, drowned my head and keep on livin’,
I don’t mind
Guess I’ll drink another bottle and drown another sorrow
I don’t mind
I can’t wait another minute, won’t you help me to forget it again
Cause I don’t mind
I’ll sit here and keep on grinnin’, drowned my head and keep on livin’,
I don’t mind
Guess I’ll drink another bottle and drown another sorrow
I don’t mind
I can’t wait another minute, won’t you help me to forget it again
Bastrop you don’t grow up, you just get raised
On Hellfire and Brimstone and Amazing Grace
The smell of stills and paper mills, you never quite escape
But I got away
I swore that I’d be done by 21
Staring down the wrong end of a gun
I’ve drank myself ungrateful and I found myself unwise
But I’m still alive
I’m still alive
And I have learned the hard way lessons
And I have made my own mistakes
I’ve drove headlong down some dead end roads, no honest man should take
But I’ve never been afraid to spread broken wings in skies
Where even angels fear to fly
Where even angels fear to fly
So damn sure of what I could not know
Knew too damn well of what wasn’t really so
I don’t conjure memories now, it’s best I just forget
So I’ve laid to rest
My regrets
I learned the hard way, the lessons
I have made my own mistakes
Drove headlong down some dead ends, no honest man should take
But I’ve never been afraid to spread broken wings in skies
Where angels fear to fly
And I have learned the hard way lessons
And I have made my own mistakes
I’ve drove headlong down some dead end roads, no honest man should take
But I’ve never been afraid to spread broken wings in skies
Where even angels fear to fly
Where even angels fear to fly
I am the river that flows through my veins
I am the black crow, I’m wings of change
I am the rock that the rain couldn’t conquer
I’m above, I’m below, I am hell and high water
I’ve been the song carried in on the breeze
I’ve wept with willows and I’ve fell with the leaves
I am the badlands and the silence it holds
A warrior who walks but is never alone
There’s a black and a white wolf in me
And I live and I die
By which one I feed
It’s a war old as time, this fighting inside
And I live and I die,
By which one I feed
I am the hunted and I am the hunter
I am the feast and the famine, the hunger
I am the eagle screaming for peace
While the beasts on the inside sharpen their teeth
There’s a black and a white wolf in me
And I live and I die
By which one I feed
It’s a war old as time, this fighting inside
And I live and I die,
By which one I feed
There’s a black and a white wolf in me
And I live and I die
By which one I feed
It’s a war old as time, this fighting inside
And I live and I die,
By which one I feed
Which one I feed
I am the river that flows through my veins
I am the black crow, I’m wings of change
I need a bite of something sweet
I need a day like they used to be
Need to see all my old friends, so we can start again
I need a bite of something sweet
I need a drink Lord, from that cup
I need something to fill me up
When the cards have all been shown
It’s time that I go home
I need a drink Lord, from that cup
I need to lie down and rest for a while
I need a sunny day, but clouds are more my style
My soul hungers for more than I can eat
Give me a new day and a bite of something sweet
I need to lie down and rest for a while
I need a sunny day, but clouds are more my style
My soul hungers for more than I can eat
Give me a new day and a bite of something sweet
Give me a new day and a bite of something sweet
Mama, this highways gonna kill me
And mama, I think my rose is wilting
The kids and her alone while I’m so far from home
I feel so guilty
Mama, this highways gonna kill me
I hope the road that takes me there will always bring me back
But I guess whatever will be, will be
Mama this highways gonna kill me
Woman, I wish I couldn’t hurt you
And woman, It’s clear I don’t deserve you
I know it seems I only need you when I ain’t got nowhere else to turn too
So woman, I wish I wouldn’t hurt you
I’m sure there’s some relief in giving up and moving on
And sometimes it seems way too much to work through
Woman I never meant to hurt you
Lord, I beg of you protect me
Cause lately, swear the devil’s out to get me
It ain’t a leap of faith to say he always prays upon the unsuspecting
So Lord, I beg of you protect me
I can’t walk with you if the devil got my hand
I hope you have my back and direct me
Jesus I beg of you protect me
Jesus, don’t let’em get me
She can’t do this, anymore
She bought a ticket west and left me staring down the storm
Now I’m sittin’ here, all alone
In an empty house that used to be a happy home
She said she needed sunshine
She had enough of clouds
I knew it wouldn’t take too long, for her to figure out.
It don’t rain in California
You won’t see a single storm cloud in the sky
It’s always clear, so there won’t be any tears
Leave you standin’ in the downpour trying to hide
It don’t rain in California, like it’s raining here tonight
I can’t do this, anymore
I hopped a plane and I found my way to the California shore
Now we sittin’ here, all alone
You knew that I was comin’, you sounded happy on the phone
I knew you needed sunshine,
It seems I brought the clouds
The thunder and the lightning seem to follow me around
It don’t rain in California
You won’t see a single storm cloud in the sky
It’s always clear, so there won’t be any tears
Leave you standin’ in the downpour trying to hide
It don’t rain in California, like it’s raining here tonight
It don’t rain in California, like it’s raining here tonight
I feel their eyes upon me, as I walk across the room
I can hear em’ all whispering my name
So I tuck in my shoulders and hide the best I can
It all happened so fast I can’t explain
But if I had to
I’d tell em’ all I really ain’t that special
And I’d cry and yell leave me the hell alone
And I hate it that I have to try to be cool all the time
I’m just a guy, with a wounded mind
I put on my costume and I put on a show
The only way a jester stays alive
All they see is glitter and all they hear are rhymes
If I could find a new way to survive
I’d be glad to
Tell em’ all I really ain’t that special
And I’d cry and yell leave me the hell alone
And I hate it that I have to try to be cool all the time
I’m just a guy, with a wounded mind
And I hate it that I have to try to be cool all the time
I’m just a guy, with a wounded mind
And I’d tell em’ all I really ain’t that special
And I’d cry and yell leave me the hell alone
And I hate it that I have to try to be cool all the time
I’m just a guy, with a wounded mind
Ramble, when this world gives you more than you can handle
You get on those two wheels and you fly to outer space
Like your in a one man race
Never thinking about tomorrow, you beg, steal, you borrow
And you gamble, you gamble with your love like you don’t need it
And when it’s said and done you’ll be alone out on the road
Shaking off the cold
No one to keep you warm, I guess you were born to ramble
Freedom, you say all you ever wanted was your freedom
But is it worth the cost of never calling one place home
Always going, going, gone
Nowhere to rest your bones, but you keep on believing
Believing in some kind of magic potion
The one that makes you feel like you ain’t never gonna die
The one that makes you cry
Then leaves you in that haze, I guess you will always ramble
Ramble, when this world gives you more than you can handle
You get on those two wheels and go back to outer space
Win that one man race
Don’t worry bout tomorrow, out run your sorrows and ramble
I have prayed for wisdom, now I pray for peace
It seems the more I know now, the less that I can sleep
Stay imprisoned in my conscience, trying to figure what it means
To be caught between a nightmare and the sweetest of dreams
Some days a raven, some days a dove
Some days the dark cloud hanging round
Others from the light above
I’m scuffed by the devil, but I’m washed up in the blood
Some days a raven, some days a dove
You may question how I’m living, it might scare you half to death
I’ve been forgive for my sinning, Lord knows I ain’t through sinning yet
I get my singing from my mama, I get the fight from my old man
I don’t always know where I’m going, but I know exactly what I am
Some days a raven, some days a dove
Some days the dark cloud hanging round
Others from the light above
I’m scuffed by the devil, but I’m washed up in the blood
Some days a raven, some days a dove
Some days a raven, some days a dove
Some days the dark cloud hanging round
Others from the light above
I’m scuffed by the devil, but I’m washed up in the blood
Some days a raven, some days a dove
Some days a raven, some days a dove
No I’m not goin’ crazy, but lately my head and my heart
Seem to be at least a million miles apart
My heart says to love ya, my head says to run
It’s like my heart is too afraid to tell my head what it’s done
I know that it can never be the way it was
Even though you’ll be the death of me I can’t give you up
Too much is not enough; it’s not the love, it’s not the lust that grips me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
It must be the whiskey
Oh I’m not goin’ crazy, but lately these thoughts in my head
Are a whirlwind of a world of a million regrets
All the things I should’ve done, all the things I should’ve said
All the pain that comes with hatin’ the mess you’ve made of yourself
I know I’m chasin’ rainbows thinkin’ I could make it work
But the fact is that my actions speak louder than my words
And it only makes it worse thinkin’ of her, thinkin’ she’ll forgive me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
It must be the whiskey
I’ve been drinkin’ to remember and drinkin’ to forget
I got “I love you” on my mind, I got Jim Beam on my breath
And loneliness has got the rest, I’ve got nothin’ left within me
Sometimes it hits me whenever I’m a little tipsy
Oh, it hits me whenever I’m a little tipsy
It must be the whiskey
It must be the whiskey
It must be the whiskey
It’s that whiskey
It must be the whiskey
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
Somewhere between I need you and lettin’ go
And it scares me so when I look hard I find no good reasons
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
Somewhere between I miss you and I’m gone
Runnin’ hard through the middle of the night, and you spend yours alone
I hold you close then I let you go, no leavin’ well-enough alone
I’m somewhere between I miss you and I’m gone
And the ties that bind, they hold my mind
No matter where I go, I’m alone
Here with you or out there tearin’ down some road
Nowhere is home
And you’re the only thing on earth that I believe in
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
And the ties that bind, they hold my mind
No matter where I go, I’m alone
Here with you or out there tearin’ down some road
Nowhere is home
And you’re the only thing on earth that I believe in
I can stay or I can go and not break even
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
I’m somewhere between I love you and I’m leavin’
I walk around on pins and needles
Around people I can’t even name
I keep on passin’ church steeples
Prayin’ that my God is still the same
I been wanderin’ like a fool too blind to see
Maybe it ain’t the bottle that I need
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
Lost in a land of smoke and mirrors
I do my best to just stay clear of my yesterdays
I’ve been runnin’ so long, now I’m runnin’ from myself
Tired of runnin’ away
I’m still tryin’ to get through to the man I wanna be
Maybe I’m not so gone that I can’t see
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need a shot of holy water
I need it to chase down my demons
And burn ’em just a little bit hotter
I’ve been havin’ drinks with the devil in this neon town
I need a shot of holy water to wash it down
(Holy, holy water)
I need a shot of holy water (holy, holy water)
I need a shot of holy water (holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
(Holy, holy water)
He wakes with the chickens and the Waco sun
He’s got mouths to feed and cattle to run
Same as his daddy and his daddy done
It’s all he’s ever known
In this modern world movin’ break-neck fast
He’s a dyin’ breed, a thing of the past
He’ll be damned if he don’t hit back
If you stand in his way
When there’s nothin’ more to say
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
She’s a renaissance girl with a fire in her soul
She’s got a pocket full of nothin’, nobody tells her no
She flew into town twenty years ago
With a guitar and a song
She’s been playin’ them rooms but she ain’t got far
Been livin’ off tips in them Broadway bars
She’s a troubadour queen but time left its mark
The scene’s passed her by
In a world that’s passed her by
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
No they don’t give up and they don’t give in
When things don’t go their way
Yeah we’re getting’ knocked down
Yeah we’re getting’ back up
Live to die another day
So here’s to the lifers
The struggle-and-strifers
Workin’ long after the day is done
Here’s to the throw-backs
The cowboys in old hats
The last of the great generation
It seems they still dream
Daddy must’ve told her when she was sixteen
Don’t settle for a poor man’s diamond ring
Take a lesson from your mama, girl, it ain’t no shame
To find a man with some money and a big last name
She wore that crown at the Rose Parade
All them boys starin’ at her thinkin’ maybe someday
All their credit put together couldn’t get her to the game
She wants a man with some money and a big last name
She’s had the pick of the litter since the day she was born
Ain’t nothin’ good enough in this town
She’s a product of her mama, she gets what she wants
Ain’t layin’ that silver spoon down
She wants to be in a picture in a gold-leaf frame
With a man with some money and a big last name
She’s had the pick of the litter since the day she was born
Ain’t nothin’ good enough in this town
She’s a product of her mama, she gets what she wants
Ain’t layin’ that silver spoon down
She wants to be in a picture in a gold-leaf frame
With a man with some money and a big last name
Man with some money and a big last name
Well she met a rich banker down in San Antone
He had a pre-nup ready for her name to be on
The she came home early to a pretty young thing
In bed with some money and a big last name
In bed with some money and a big last name
In bed with some money and a big last name
The city lights
Ain’t treatin’ me right
On this side of the wall
I’m thinkin’ it’s time
To turn on a dime
For the Sierra Madre call
I caught wind
From a friend of a friend
Of mighty wealth untold
If the stories are true
Nothin’ left to do
But head down to Mexico
Desert wind
Blowin’ me away again
Now you’re my only friend
I’ve got left to call
Bought a two-bit mule
From a horse-theivin’ fool
To cross the Rio Grande alone
I had to steer clear
But I had not a fear
Where the federale roamed
Once I was through
I knew what to do
Had to send that old mule home
I’m now on the trail
That lead most to hell
After Pancho Villa’s gold
Desert wind
Blowin’ me away again
Now you’re my only friend
I’ve got left to call
Desert wind
Blowin’ me away again
Now you’re my only friend
I’ve got left to call
Followed the words
That I’d been told
Amongst the hillside shadows cold
When I talked to him
I caught a chill
For the cavern it did hold
The answers to questions that I never had
With riches I could hold
But truth of a man ain’t built with hands or Pancho Villa’s gold
It’s that desert wind
Blowin’ me home again
Now you’re the only friend
That I’ll ever call
It’s that desert wind
Blowin’ me home again
Now you’re the only friend
I’ll ever call
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Even though our love might’ve gone down burnin’
Like the sunset on the mountains out in Vail
And our best days might have been some I’d forgotten
But our worst days I remember much too well
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
I look back to when we carved our names in marble
On an aspen by the cabin where we stayed
And I wonder if that tree’s still strong and standin’
Despite the broken promises we made
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
It’s about the only thing I ever do
Don’t think that I don’t think about Colorado
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Don’t think I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
I’ve played every honky tonk and roadside bar and juke joint
Between here and Minneapolis
You know I’ve lived these miles
There’s a Haggard man behind these eyes and smile
I picked up the guitar ’round the time I turned fourteen
Lit that fire, been burnin’ tires, hard booze, both ends and gasoline
Stayin’ wired
Come back down the best that we know how
We know now
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit ’cause I can’t quit enough
I’ve felt all the pressures playin’ to an empty room
And the pleasures of a crowd that’s singin’ loud to every word to all my songs
But the band and me, Lord, keep rollin’ on
We roll on
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit ’cause I can’t quit enough
We’re all tryin’ to quit smokin’
Tired of laughin’, tired of jokin’
‘Bout the habits we all have slowly creepin’ up
We all gotta die from somethin’
Livin’ kills you, life is tough
But I can’t quit cause I can’t quit enough
I’ll never quit cause I can’t quit enough
From the 7th floor window sometimes I swear I see it all
From which way the wind blows to how we’re all bound to fall
Doesn’t make much sense, the crazy things I do
Under the influence of the pain that I’ve been through
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
I shook hands with deception when I saw through their empty eyes
I broke bread with the burdens of everything that I despise
Dug my own graves and I’ve thrown caution to the wind
Become a slave to the wicked ways of men
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
I wish I hadn’t waged the wars on the weakness of my fears
But it was worth the wait just to be standin’ here
Singin’ to the heavens as they fill up my mind
Standin’ on the 7th floor of everything I left behind
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
It’s what I do
To get to you
From the 7th floor window sometimes I swear I see it all
From which way the wind blows to how we’re all bound to fall
Who’s this stranger in the mirror
The one that’s lookin’ back at me?
He ain’t familiar, I don’t know this guy
Who in the world could it be?
It ain’t me, there ain’t no way
And the stranger, gettin’ stranger everyday
The guy I’m lookin’ for, he’s a young man
He ain’t scarred-up and gettin’ old
He’s a good kid from the country
Your eyes are big-city-cold
It ain’t me, there ain’t no way
And the stranger, gettin’ stranger everyday
Maybe I’m goin’ crazy
Could be losin’ my mind
Lookin’ for someone familiar
That I knew one time
The stranger, hear me talkin’
Listen up to what I have to say
Waitin’ for an answer… silence
And the stranger, is gettin’ stranger every day
Maybe I’m goin’ crazy
Could be losin’ my mind
Lookin’ for someone familiar
That I knew one time
Who’s this stranger in the mirror
I know it’s hard to find the words so often standin’ face-to-face
Sometimes it takes a thin white sheet to put things into place
Things that I could never say come floodin’ out somehow upon these lines
I’m still fightin’ the same battles I’ve been fightin’ all these years
A dreamer is not a dreamer unless you’re livin’ with a fear
What they say will be forgotten, all that’s done will be for naught
And why
And it’s been a long time, Lord, since I sat down and had a cry
It’s sometimes overwhelmin’ and I can’t tell ya why
But I remember Jackson singin’ “Doctor, doctor, please
My eyes
And my heroes, they’re all dyin’ or they’re sittin’ in a cell
Due to years of medicatin’ minds that hurt so well
There’s a thin line, don’t you see, between genius and insanity
Which am I
One thing that scares the hell in me is livin’ with mortality
And worryin’ that I’m insane talkin’ to a God unseen
Must surely make me crazy, so crazy’s what I’ll be
‘Til I’m gone
‘Til I’m gone
And I’ll scream out to the sun and to the moon and to the stars
I’ll scream until my voice finds you, no matter where you are
I’ll scream until I’ve got no breath and all that’s left to take is death
And I’m done
When I’m done
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh
Burning the candle at both ends leaves no time to think
To kill one flame
It’s to slow the burn
Hittin’ it hard every night when the sun goes down my girl
You know I’m always around
I’m in some other town
I can’t say where I’ll be, come this time next week
I know I won’t be here
I know I won’t be home
I’ve lost so much of myself, I wonder now
Am I really what, all these people see
I’ve got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
I’ve got no time to think, the time you’ve spent alone
I’ve got no time to think of the years I know all the times with you how they come and go
Got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
Ten years gone and I’m on my way to a million miles
You know they don’t come free
You know they roll by slow
I’d be lyin’ if I said that I did not love my work
You know I love you too
Now it’s time to go
I’ve got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
I’ve got no time to think, the time you’ve spent alone
I’ve got no time to think of the years I know all the times with you how they come and go
Got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
I’ve got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
I’ve got no time to think, the time you’ve spent alone
I’ve got no time to think of the years I know all the times with you how they come and go
Got no time to think, the time that I’ve let go
Wake up Becki
I’ve got something to say
Listen to me
Let’s try this one more day
I know it’s late now
But you know I just can’t sleep
Wake up Becki
Won’t you talk with me
Wake up Becki
Oh now listen to me please
Understand now
I’m down on my knees
You gotta believe me
When I say my love is true
Wake up Becki
All I want is you
I need to hear your voice, you know I’m all alone
And this is what I’d say to you, if you’d pick up that phone
You must be fast asleep not thinking about me or you’re already gone
Wake up Becki
Becki I’m almost home
Wake up Becki
Oh I know it’s been too long
Since I’ve held you
And I know you’ve been strong
Don’t you worry
I may be gone for a week or two
Wake up Becki
I’m coming home to you
I need to hear your voice, you know I’m all alone
And this is what I’d say to you, if you’d pick up that phone
You must be fast asleep not thinking about me or you’re already gone
Wake up Becki
Becki I’m almost home
Well I started on the whiskey pretty early this morning
That’s alright, I was up all night
But I passed out before the sun came up
I really wanted to see one of those
I know that’s no way for a man to behave
With a mortgage due and a baby on the way
But somehow I made it to where I’m at
It’s been a living as a matter of fact
I get a bad attitude from being tired and running ‘round
I never ask for anyone to say they like my sound
I’ve never been a part of any musical scene
I ain’t just talking Nashville, if you know what I mean
They don’t write about me, in their magazines
And I don’t ask for no reviews on the songs that I sing
I never had a lot of friends and I’m alright by that
But people keep on coming back
Raising hell with the hippies and
