I'm down in Mexico had to go won't be home no more. I want mom and dad to know I miss and love them so. Though I'll never see them anymore. . The day that I turned twenty one I could hardly wait.
I see your van you're a guitar man it's written all over your face. To make it big you quit your gig a playin' bass at the airbase. You've come to town you've been turned down but it's just a question of taste.
A scarecrow and yellow moon and road house on the edge of town. Hear that midnight rooster crow well I have one more before I go. But Honey don't turn out the light cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.
For a long long time now just about every night. You found some excuse not to hold me tight. No matter what I do you sit and pout don't let that doorknob hit you going out.
There ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe it don't matter nayhow. And there ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe if you don't know by now. When the rooster crows at the break of dawn look out your window I'll be gone.
Breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam. Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham. Dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no biscuits no pie.
Don't it make you wanna go home now don't it make you wanna go home. All God's children get weary when they roam. Don't it make you wanna go home don't it make you wanna go home.
Delia's gone one more round Delia's gone. First time I shot Delia shot her in the side. The second time I shot her she laid right down and died. Delia's gone one more round Delia's gone.
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City. I dreamed about them cotton fields of home. I dreamed about my mother, dear old pappy, sister and brother.
I've been writin' Mary Lou letters every day. But I just found out lately. How she throws them all away. She don't even bother to read the things I say.
It's snowing out there in the gloaming I've sat here and watched it all night. Little kids will be thrilled when they awaken and look at the fields deep and white.
Her house on the corner of Cedar and Elm. Still stands in our town. But it's been empty since she moved away. The day that the saw mill closed down. .
Dear John oh how I hate to write dear John I must let you know tonight. That my love for you has died away like grass upon the lawn. And tonight I wed another dear John.
[ with The Family ]. (Daddy's been around the house too long. He's watchin' TV drinking beer and singing crazy songs. He don't ever yell at us so something must be wrong.
See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still. Like an echo of an age long forgotten. There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones.
(Daddy what if the sun stop shinin' what would happen then). If the sun stopped shinin' you'd be so surprised. You'd stare at the heavens with wide open eyes.
I love You Lord. But I want to love You more. I need You God. But I want to need You more. . I'm desperate for a desperate heart. I'm reaching out, I'm reaching.
We are always on the run, let's rest in the shade. Trade your life in for a gun, they can't make us change. I'm sick of running from the masses. They can't tell us where to go.
Ah, yea. . I Know You Like a book, but you still make me nervous (Run). Giving me that look, you do that s**t on purpose, now you get me. Scared to tell you how I'm really feeling.
Don't wanna want you, baby. Don't wanna want you like I do. Don't wanna want you, baby. And watch you play me like a fool. . I've seen the dark side of love before.