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?. .
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.
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.
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 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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I pick up the phone that's ringin' inside my head. It's your old familiar voice drippin' like honey. Sayin', c'mon, c'mon, let's tie one on. Your know I can be there in a heartbeat.
He played guitar in a honky-tonk band. He drank Jack Daniels, black label brand. He was the life of the party till they closed down the bar. In the eyes of a young boy, he was a star.
Where you going. with your head hung down. Papers blowin' through the streets of town. They've already taken all. of your posters down. Didn't take 'em long once.
Standin' in the middle of a Roman street. Marble dust all over my feet. Bearded masses at the gates. Dancin' in the ruins while it's not too late. . Drivin' a Rolls through old Bombay.
Ruby said you getting us in a world of hurt. Down below the Mason-Dumbass line the food gets worse. I can't go back to Tennessee. That NASCAR country's not for me.
Aw. Yeah. . I know you got somebody. Who thinks you're home tonight. You're lookin' for a good time. Girl, I'll do you right. . Forget your other man.
ride the blue wind high and free. she'll lead you down to misery. leave you low come time to go. alone and low as low can be. . if I had a nickle I'd find a game.
There's a stack of bills sittin' on the kitchen table. Next to catalogs of all the things we can't buy. And the dress I bought you for your birthday. Ain't got no fancy ribbons.