I wake up tired and I wake up pissed. wonder how I ended up like this. I wonder why things happen like they do. but I don't wonder long cause I got a show to do.
It's all about where you put the horizon. Said the Great John Ford to the young man rising. You got to frame it just right and have some luck of course.
On the first night of my drinking I was looking for my keys. I was half-blind and stinking and bloody at the knees. I had a built-in-fever and bright red cheeks.
The hours creep across the face. As she paces across the floor. She can't even get to sleep since Tony went to war. She feels bitch-slapped and abandoned.
And they fell from the skies with the greatest of ease. And they landed on the ground under tents and trapeze. And they were told that they fell with such beauty and grace.
By the time you were born there were four other siblings. With your Mama awaiting your daddy in jail. Your oldest brother was away at a home. And You didn't meet him til you were nineteen years old.
The Reverend had his wife done in. By a guy I knew in high school. He and a friend should do her in. And make it look like a robbery. . "Here's money, son, go buy a gun.
I watched the rain; it settled in. We disappeared for days again.. Most of us were staying in, lazy like the sky.. The letters flew across the wire filtered through a million liars..
Now Sheriff Buford Pusser's gotten too big for his britches. With his book reviews and movie deals. Down at the car lot making public appearances. For breaking up our homes and stills.
My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck. Your dumber than dog shit is what my Daddy said. I was just thirteen when they showed me the door. I keep their picture but don't look at it no more.
Well, they caught you smoking grass and the judge threw the book. I can see a little opportunism in your look. You can take it from me, boy. You can take it from a crook.
That man I shot,. He was trying to kill me. He was trying to kill me. He was trying to kill me. That man I shot I didn't know him. I was just doing my job, maybe so was he.
That man I shot,. He was trying to kill me. He was trying to kill me. He was trying to kill me. That man I shot I didn't know him. I was just doing my job, maybe so was he.
Me and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking,. She solved her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks.. She said I reminded her of him before he started drinking.
Me and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking,. She solved her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks.. She said I reminded her of him before he started drinking.
Steve McQueen Steve McQueen. When I was a little boy I wanted to grow up to be. Steve McQueen Steve McQueen. The coolest doggone mother scratcher on the silver screen.
When I saw her standing there, with her bright eyes and shining hair. She was looking back at me. Some are meant to sing, some are meant to talk and some aren't meant to say a thing.
If I could have one wish right now. I'd be about as half as tough as I pretend I am. Then I wouldn't care how empty this old house feels. I could take her things and take them far away from here.
I've always been a religious man, I've always been a religious man. But I met the banker and it felt like sin, he turned my bailout down. The Banker Man, he let into me, let into me, let into me.
Put your cigarette out and put your hat back on.. Don't mix up which is which.. They don't pay you enough to work.. They don't pay me enough to bitch..