Well, I left for work in a hurry. I rushed out the door without saying goodbye. I didn't tell her I loved her this mornin'. But I'll tell her tonight, I thought to myself.
New Mexico's lost in the back streets of Austin. Carolina keeps all her thoughts to herself. Tennessee's tight and he will not stop talking. Somebody shush him 'fore I have to myself.
Look off down the highway. at the glittering lights. Like windshield glass. on the shoulder tonight. As the diesels come. grinding on up from the plains.
You can always find me here. Raisin hell and drinkin beer. With all my good time buddies. Cuttin up and havin fun. . Yeah, the jokes can be on me. And I dont mind usually.
Flatter than a table top. Makes you wonder why they stopped here. Wagon must have lost a wheel. Or they lacked ambition one. . In the great migration west.
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.
Oh yeah. . Everybody's looking for somebody they could call their own. Nobody wants to go walking through this world alone. I can see you and me together, all tangled up and beautiful forever.
I got a blonde bombshell in my black Corvette. Burnin down the rubber like a hot cigarette. Aint found nothin that will hold me yet. Feels a little better when Im out on the edge.
I've had enough of this small town bullshit. I'm not stayin' in school. I'm makin' good dough workin' with my brother. Cleanin' out pools. I'm going out to California.
I'm not from here. I just live here. grew up somewhere far away. come here thinking I'd never stay long. I'd be going back soon someday. . it's been a few years.
The hurricane party's windin' down. And we're all waitin' for the end. And I don't want another drink. I only want that last one again. . He gave me such a fine glow, smokin' slow.
The in-laws are waiting the games have begun. The cell phone keeps ringing dont answer it hon. The whole things arranged just to aggravate Dad. And its amateur day on the old super slab.
Last time I saw you. it could've been Christmas eve. it could've been someone's birthday. it could've been make believe for all I know. it could've been make believelast time I saw you.
I got a room with a Freeway view. I'm only home at night. I ain't ever coming back to you. Or then again I might. . Then again I might get lonely. Then again I might not know my mind.
Last time I saw you. it could've been Christmas eve. it could've been someone's birthday. it could've been make believe for all I know. it could've been make believelast time I saw you.
The skies are taller in Louisiana. The skies are wider in New Mexico. The skies in Texas kinda split the difference. They don't suit me no matter where I go.
He was a drinking man with a guitar problem. Didn't have a dollar to his name. He didn't seem to mind it all that often. He mostly took whatever came.
My thoughts were gnawing at me so I tried hard not to think. I took a pint of whiskey and I poured it down the sink. I'd get my act together, I swore it to myself.
Honey, don't you be yelling at me when I'm cleaning my gun. I'll wash the blood off the tailgate when deer season's done. We got one more weekend to go.
Strap them kids in give 'em a little bit of vodka. In a Cherry Coke, we're going to Oklahoma. To the family reunion for the first time in years. It's up at uncle Slayton's 'cause he's getting on in years.