The Ball

If I hadn't dropped the ball, I would've took it all the way. Homecoming '89 with ten seconds left to play. We were drivin' toward the goal line, they were screamin' in the stands.

We Can't Make It Here

Theres a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign. Sitting there by the left turn line. The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze. One leg missing and both hands free.

Sunset Man

Sunset Man. (James Otto / Shannon Lawson / John Rich). . I used to wake up early every day. Just to feel the sunrise on my face. Me and my woman in the front porch swing.

Right Thing

Walk Between The Raindrops

Don't know what's gotten into you. Must be something in your genes. About this time I was crazy, too. And most times in between. . But I survived to live another day.

Overloaded

Here's your chance to be convinced. Don't let this one go by. Forgetting when to sink or swim you don't put up a fight. No reason to choose sides. It's not a part of me the church of everything I think in front of me.

Too Long In The Wasteland

hear the trucks on the highway. and the ticking of the clock. there's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon. bullet holes in the mailbox. bullet holes in the mailbox.

Sunday Morning And Saturday Night

My ol' man was a contradiction. A real hard man to figure. He'd read the King James Bible. While sippin' on corn liquor. . He'd get drunk and he'd get to preachin'.

Tired Of Walking

They went about it in the wrong way. I'da told 'em, but it wasn't my job. It's on the news, it's in the paper. What could they've been thinking of?. .

Sun Comes 'round Again

Ain't been no blue sky out your window. You just don't want endless rainy day. All you do is cry there on your pillow. Well, baby, I can change your ways.

Song Of The Violin

The last fifty years. Have seen laughter and tears. And your hair slowly fade to gray. . Your children are grown now. And it's hard to believe. How the years have just all slipped away.

Soldiers & Jesus

Grand-daddy came home in a B-52. In a pine box covered in red, white and blue. He was one of the brave and the proud and the few. . Twenty-one guns helped us say goodbye.

She Knows

She walks around late at night. In my old Allman Brothers T-shirt and not much else. There's a hint of her perfume in the air. She lets her hair dry all by itself.

The Old Part Of Town

(Peter Case). . Last night I wandered punch drunk & enraptured. Out on the beltway where the business is done. As I lay on the asphalt neath the glow of light boxesI heard somebody say bet I know where hes from.

She Comes To Me

Every night when the sun goes down. She takes a drive to my side of town. Needin' somethin' that she ain't found. So she comes to me. . The only thing that he's done wrong.

Shake What God Gave Ya

You been workin' all week long. Now you're dyin' to cut loose. [Incomprehensible] all nine to five. For some twelve bob blues. . Let music tell your brain.

Six-year Drought

I guess you had your reasons. For the way you used to be. Dont why I couldnt please you. You just never had much faith in me. Theres fine dust in the tire ruts now.

Never Say Goodbye

Your bags are packed and your cab's out back. Guess it's too late to change your mind. But before you leave, do one thing for me. Just turn around and look me in the eyes.

Misspent Youth

Seventeen and innocent. I wonder where all the years went. Lookin' back on a youth misspent. God, I miss those days. . All the chances that we took. Always leaped and never looked.

See The Elephant

I saw Pete and Johnny too. Dressed up in their Sunday suits. Getting themselves all up to go. Down to Richmond to the traveling show. I fixed the gate like you told me to.