I'm stuck inside this cheap old room. Been telling myself I might phone you. Saying dear friend I'd be coming home. But not right now and it won't be soon.
You may look around and find nothing to do. You may be hanging on the things that you knew. But it's a good time to make brand new plans. Pick up a brick or buy a cheap gun.
Make me get down on my knees. Ten different people need that pretty please. Well I think I'll go out and do it myself. Why do it all just for somebody else.
I thought of you this morning. I've been thinking of you again. Tonight I'm a poor carpenter. Waiting for my shift to end. And I'll come to my pearl. My good luck girl.
Along the way. She may say it's over. And he won't cry. But deep inside he's gone. He'll turn away. And she can't help but say. "I don't mind being one of those fools.
Could have been a train, a boat or a car. And there's no way of guessing. Just how far it takes until you know when you're gone. . It's hard and it's sad when you're dancing with sin.
Chorus. This big ladder 'been keeping you away. Hiding yourself where you don't have to pay. But one day the ladder is gonna break. This old ladder 'been helping you out.
Peddle down to the river. Draw some pictures in the sand. Look on over the water. For the sight of another's hand. . Oh please show me a face. One that's not my own.
A coat of mystery hangs on the wall. Of the thick cool breeze. He tips his charcoal cap. To the girl he won't win back. even if he acts nicely. Someone died here, don't know why.
Is he treating you good. Is he treating you kind. Does he wait at your door step. Give you all his time. Is he close the way you want him. Or is he walking behind.
Let's drink to Isabella. In a room full of repairs. Covering the bruises and scratches. From the wild and restless years. By the time those glasses reach our lips.
I've been waiting long, hard and still. Dark as a cold heart within my cell. Fifteen years for talking loud and taking grip But squeezing hard I saw the fall pass by this doorstep.
Let's take the time to cry. Give you something better for your mind. Oh man this sun is burning up my head. I remember when you were like a lovely song.
I'm the hat that you're wearing around. And I'm never alone even when you put me down. Because there's always someone trying me on. And whispering sweet lines for me to come.
Got Myself A-Thinkin. Well, I got myself a-thinkin. Where did all that time go. Pushed us in one direction. Made the sober man fold. It was a long time coming.
There's no more pictures in the frames. There ain't no tears rolling down. I missed you more than ever. When I watched you shut me out. I don't like to sit in my favourite chair.
You got a filthy mouth. Babe you know you do. I hear it up and down the town. Words I'd never use. How could you say them like that?. You got me wishing that I never came back.
Too many staples on the pole. And I've got my hair all wrong. The car don't seem to start. And my keys are too long gone. . But I've got the girl you keep wondering about Somebody's gonna hollow my grave right out But don't think I won't be there when I'm gone 'Cause I'll be ghost walking all night long.
Called for her in the mirrored wind. Called for her by the shivering tides. Bring my fair skinned girl to me. Let me have her for a while. Blew my mind in a wild storm.
On the East Coast she's living. Like a Queen by a throne. And when I drive there. I drive to all the places she goes. The boys on the island. The men at the docks.