my girl s not alone my girl won t answer her phone she s my girl my girl my girl my girl my girl leave her alone my girl left me today my girl left nothing to say she s my girl my girl my girl my girl my girl she wouldn t stay my girl she just had to be my girl she had to be free she s my girl my girl my girl my girl my girl my girl my girl girl my girl my girl my girl my girl

you don t know you don t know well you don t know just what you left well you left your heart in my chest you don t know yeah you don t know yeah you don t know just what you are well you re the sky without a star well babe it s building til it s bound to burst i can t forget i ve been the best of your worst we ll call it heaven but it s hell on earth lucky us she s a curse well babe it s building til it s bound to burst i can t forget i ve been the best of your worst we ll call it heaven but it s hell on earth lucky us she s a curse you don t know yeah you don t know yeah you don t know just what you ve been well you sure look a lot like him well you don t know yeah you don t know know yeah you don t know just what you were well i m halfway there well babe it s building til it s bound to burst i can t forget i ve been the best of your worst we ll call it heaven but it s hell on earth lucky us she s a curse well babe it s building til it s bound to burst i can t forget i ve been the best of your worst we ll call it heaven but it s hell on earth lucky us she s a curse yeah lucky us she s a curse yeah lucky us she s a curse

lost my breath i m feeling weak my bones escape my skin i don t know how it s been so long since i last let you in wishing i could find a way to never have to hear you say you ll never spend another day alone thinking i might take a drive to go where you have been think i need to breathe i ll never love again i though you knew feel my feet groaning from everything i ve learned i hear you voice in steps i don t care if you get hurt i m feeling sick and tired of hearing all the words telling me what i should do and how to hurt i m feeling trapped i m feeling tired of all the shit you do i can t believe i m still around with all you put me through i m thinking i might leave this town in all with east side on the ground because you don t have me around at home thinking i might take a drive to know where you have been i need to think i need to breathe i ll never love again i thought you knew i feel my feet burning from everything i ve learned i hear your voice in steps i don t care if you get hurt i m feeling sick and tired of hearing all the words telling me what i should do and how to hurt i feel my feet burning from everything i ve learned i hear your voice in steps i don t care if you get hurt i m feeling sick and tired of hearing all the words telling me what i should feel and how to hurt

wish i could forget the way your fingers feel within mine the thrill of broken promises is crippling my spine can t get the smell of him out of my thoughts and clothes and i m afraid the one who loves me might already know waiting alone on the porch until two my cigarette ashes because of you i m a clever boy don t ask me how i knew but i think i found you out darling i swear it just isn t true he s just a friend i m in love with you look in my eyes i m telling the truth now come lay back down feel your lips melt into mine and burning scars so untrue i hear the send of love and pain in messages from you wish i didn t hurt you dear when you looked in my eyes a love so unconditional my heart your only prize waiting alone on the porch until two my cigarette ashes because of you i m a clever boy don t ask me how i knew but i think i figured you out darling i swear it just isn t true he s just a friend i m in love with you look in my eyes i m telling the truth now come lay back down hear footsteps that sound like yours feel my heart stop in place i lower my lips from his to see your empty face feel your chest against my back my heart beating so slow the scars i left behind your eyes and pain i ll never know waiting alone on the porch until two my cigarette ashes because of you i m a clever boy don t ask me how i knew but i think i found you out

i dream too much to ever give a fuck bout anything and everything you care about so i ll just sing i sleep too much i can t leave my bed all the things i have to do i d rather lay here for a few so please don t wake me up this dream i m in is much to sweet for me to care at all i think too much i can t escape my head trapped inside behind these eyes just hanging by a thread can t be alone i don t trust myself hiding from these mirror balls and secrets on the shelf so please don t wake me up this dream i m in is much to sweet for me to care at all sitting the dark cold and heavy sheet the smell of fire the taste of wine means nothing more to me waiting the phone i trust you won t call wish i had something to do just wander down the hall so please don t wake me up this dream i m in is much to sweet for me to care at all

a weed believes the garden sunday clothes don t fool me the sky is full of our prayer prayer when you were making moonlight the mall cops in mobile the night fell from their eyes from their eyes this is borrowed stone i d help you let your hair down point to birds then you d say bang bang the sun left every evening good grass was dying you drew your dawn on the world on the world tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise or walking into water after dark your papa saw me coming blood knows when it s worth it all you said you said like a song a song jesus left a best friend mine says forget her his field is waiting for wind for the wind mobile had your moonlight but the line cook had candy you let him blow your candle a bit ring a bell that s broken that sound is loud inside us flowing farther away far away tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise or walking into water after dark love can last a lifetime this is alabama and a wheel is forgiving the road the road now you re making music for beautiful people by the sea who don t need a song need a song tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise this is alabama

someone gets to be the river someone is the sea someone gets to be the fire someone is the leaves and someone s walking in the morning light and calling to it cold everybody moves beneath the truest stars they know jesus and his trophy wives are praying for the suicides and the orphans save us all from what we want beautiful and beaten back to life someone has the door to heaven someone has the lock someone has to be the dove when someone is the hawk and someone s talking to the miles around and hearing them for good everybody s branches falling harder than they should and i know jesus and his trophy wives are praying for the broken to be noticed save us all from what we want beautiful and beaten back to life back to life back to life1

thomas county law s got a crooked tooth every traffic light is red when it tells the truth the church bell isn t kidding when it cries for you nobody looks away when the sun goes down thomas county road takes you where it will someone s singing on the far side of other hills there s nowhere safe to bury all the time i ve killed nobody looks away when the sun goes down there s a couple ways to cross thomas county line you can t see beyond the trees they re too tall and wide and i never seem to see around my brother s wife nobody looks away when the sun goes down there are castles for kings there are birds without wings i could whine bout it all but i won t thomas county law s got a crooked tooth there ain t a mother with a heart less than black and blue when they hold em to the light you can see right through every dreamer falls asleep in their dancing shoes i may say i don t belong here but i know i do nobody looks away when the sun goes down nobody looks away when the sun goes down3

what will become of us tall trees blown bare in the bone white snow nothing but night for songs old mouths still sucking the warm milk of summer love in this breath so long thrown against stone we re hard to get happy what will become of us all water knows leaving hearts bleed their changing lightning s alive cause it disappears feel every tear as it falls away falls away falls away no one looks wrong in rain hope builds a house too much prayer to tear down cloud comes our way so white over the hill must be light miles of promise what will become of us

songbirds in the morning had my head lost in the tall trees i knew well well i would say dreaming my dry weeds stray light finds its way to all of us say something green it comes back sunlight on my lips let em kiss dark leaves let the hands of the wrong prophets heal me all they should let the wine of the poison jesuses taste good and all those trees lay down if you were a bird and fell into my arms if i wrote your song in stone if i wore your wings back home would the dreams in the backwater drown us far from harm give this to the gray it comes back gold birds of the morning they may know know more than us giving their hymns for life let the waves on the wrong water say what they will say while the wind and the broken branches float me away all tall trees lay down if you were the bird who fell into my arms i could write your song in stone i could wear your wings back home would the dreams in the backwater drown us far from harm 1

summer clouds blowing up and down the stair by the end we ll take music from them both give it back shining broken glass wedding coat i was waiting there for you you raised your glass and the scars fell off my heart we threw a stone but we never heard it land there are clouds keeping quiet every night by the end we hold something too high to ever come back down by the end there s a song we will sing meant for someone else by the end we leave somewhere too long to ever wander back by the end we give someone too much to ever close their hand summer clouds doing good for gold and gray tell me where all this love fits in the world you can lie give me all the rain you want

know this house that i called home her gentle milk was happy just to flow know that her tomcats took their licks in turn some branches fall to open arms some paradises are a prayer too far gods in the treetop making mockingbirds if i could choose i would do things right teach my dreams to look me in the eye sing my heart out into my hand shine where light demands when i lose my feet in my father s shoes when i take your flesh with my false tooth when i bend until i break in two call me a fool being green in the leaves of the world the leaves of the world the wind blows all the wild away this house was kind as every hiding place bones are the hardest offering to burn that dog will bark though no one s there this man went mad breaking his easy chair sing me the softest heart i ve ever heard it s only right how this trail goes cold moonlight gliding through our empty clothes know i m warm when a cloud rolls by rolling right for sky when i lose my feet in my father s shoes when i take your flesh with my false tooth when i bend until i break in two call me a fool being green in the leaves of the world the leaves of the world

warming the hearts of tragic hoodlum spirits brighten the eyes of petty thieves who crawl at night who feign to use a knife jingle jangle the cosmos are on fire the blazing loins of the criminal choir rejoice to be alive broken and depraved sullied mop and rusted pail centuries of poison to escape this heaven or hell this earthly cell of dead flowers and so many wounded foes it s hard to remember fantasy or horror unwarranted caresses little lolitas who want to be held in large hands dear father who art in heaven hollow be thy name witches confused by their own magic witches displeased by their own perfume shame lock woman shaman woman fuming with shame love lock woman women their own magic women shadow body shadow spirit white blood blue night angel s female creature wilted high in the rafters orgies of dust and butterfly laughter shadows spilling into the babe s milk sorry eyes of ghost s memoir four blue plus two that makes six that s twelve times two two brown eyes one green hazel s asleep in the hayloft down the road drowning in dry grass in the sweet maiden s lap poisoned with nightshade witches last laugh stick your thumb out and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop here soon take down your hair wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s gonna stop here soon take down your hair and wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home even though red s not your color i ll dress you in feathers and fly you in the windy weather like a child bird marooned on an island of cats little dewy brawling cats with cross eyes and hats they take mercy on you they take you for walks the mercy choir singing dismal hymns watery bible rims all jumbled a mess a mess of bright graves and flowers and balloons stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop here soon take down your hair and wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop here soon take down your hair and wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home with a knapsack of trinket i m off to seek my fortune again chasing ghosts of dead orphans friend cousin or kin we wave to the passer by moth wings of a butterfly endless tracks where no car pass close your eyes and you can fly i m off to meet my soul mate a naked fawny jailbait wading into ponds filly with polliwogs at dawn mourning the light that slipped from my eyes a little child with dirty nails and dirty hair i had dirty things scrawled upon my mind stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop here soon take down your hair wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop here soon take down your hair wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop you soon take down your hair and wind up your grin cuz someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop you soon take down your hair and wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home stick out your thumb and lift up your skirt someone s bound to stop you soon take down your hair and wind up your grin someone s gonna take you home

she look good when she wakes up in the morning even better than she did last night and when she smiles at me and kisses my cheek i m thinking lord i must be living right i ain t about to say i ain t lucky but some might say i m a fool yeah the chances are i m doing fine so far cause her mama even said i m cool she gets me higher than georgia pine wild as a muscadine vine hotter than the deep south summer time yeah everybody knows she s mine that s right well it might be a couple kind of like her but rest assure brother this one mine i d be right tearing up my pocket she got my name tattoo d where the sun don t shine saw you looking when she walking with me i don t blame you she s a hell of a girl now i know how you feel it ain t no big deal i m the luckiest man in the world she gets me higher than georgia pine wild as a muscadine vine hotter than the deep south summer time yes everybody knows she s mine that s right hit it yeah oh oho hey right now she gets me higher than georgia pine wild as a muscadine vine hotter than the deep south summer time yeah everybody knows she s mine she gets me higher than georgia pine wild as a muscadine vine hotter than the deep south summer time yeah everybody knows she s mine yeah everybody you know everybody seems like everybody everybody knows she s mine

red sky this morning was not much of a warning for what you had planned for me hell hath no fury she s the judge and she s my jury she pulled the world right out from under my feet i ll take it like a man no need of feeling sorry for me but you better understand karma is about a step behind me if i were you i d sleep with one eye open i d keep praying keep hoping you oughta be watching your back if i were you i d be looking over my shoulder cause every day gets closer to what s coming for you payback s a bitch don t be so foolish as to think you made it through this smelling like a rose and fancy free don t think you wrecked it i ll get you when you least suspect it and tear down that old tangled web you weave you re looking at a man shining happy like a brand new penny i bet you re looking for a friend everybody s got a hand that s empty if i were you i d sleep with one eye open i d keep praying keep hoping you oughta be watching your back if i were you i d be looking over my shoulder cause every day gets closer to what s coming for you payback s a bitch if i were you i d be careful of the stones i m throwing i d be blowing on the dice i m rolling you oughta be watching your back if i were you i d be looking round every corner ain t nobody ever gonna warn ya you know that it s true payback s a bitch

i get home from a long day put on the radio lookin for some country soul but i don t find it no it s a dirt road free for all some old boys sayin they re outlaws they dress the part and they talk the talk you know they ve been taught to walk the walk these boys think they re tough like they been robbin banks cause they name drop johnny cash and they name drop poor old hank hey pretty boy in the baseball hat you couldn t hit country with a baseball bat country ain t just about where you re at it s about bein true to what s inside you say you re an outlaw with your perfect boots that you got from your record label s image group sing another man s song with a big drum loop listen son you ain t got a clue you can t buy true tell you what they should do they should outlaw you let me paint a picture for you nashville in 62 the formula had proven true they didn t let nothing new through when waylon came to town they didn t like his original sound they tried hard to keep him down they tried hard to starve him out but he kept playin shows and pressin on chippin away song by song after years and years of struggling strong he got his chance and he took it to number one with this time back in 74 with his band in the back and four on the floor that one record busted down the door and the record labels had the control no more then in 76 came the outlaws record sold the first million in country music ever those old boys with long hair and braids stayed true to the south and freed the slaves and all these years later the suits got back their grip they took the outlaw concept and they re packaged it and there s a million old waylon fans singin don t y all think this outlaw bit has gotten way out of hand

i wake up with my children right around the crack of noon and i do good like a good daddy should till the devil rolls out that moon once that whiskey hits my lips it opens up pandora s box and i start a lyin and a smoking and a fightin getting crazy as a white tailed fox my eyes start burnin wild and red two horns cut thru the top of my head my teeth get jagged my tongue gets sharp cold neon blood starts a pumpin to my heart my hands get frisky with a mind of their own my legs start walkin me anywhere but home and i m a double talking chicken lickin meaner than the dickens sick and wicked hole digging pickin son of a gun and i ll love you like the devil bite you like a snake and then forsake and break everything i don t take before i m done most people who know me say i m as nice as a guy could be that s all fine cuz most of the time they never get to see the real me he ain t got a bad bone in his body is how they talk about me back home but here my dark side is unable to hide and you don t want to see my bad bone i m mean when i m lonesome i m angry when i m high but i ll chase that nightmare until i die

hey well my fall from grace was a sight to see good turned to bad and bad turned to misery i found out what it is and what it s not and all i ask for sure ain t what i got no well i ve been rained on rode hard and put up wet danced with the devil til i m in debt took all i got and there ain t much left of me i ve been knocked down drug out and left for dead barely held together by a few old threads and i m still here there ain t much left to see no well i m still holding on and there ain t much left of me no me thought that i d hit bottom but i ain t there yet cause you d be surprised at how low a man can get i watched all them dreams slip through my hands now i m getting out of here while i still can well i ve been rained on rode hard and put up wet danced with the devil til i m in debt took all i got and there ain t much left of me i ve been knocked down drug out and left for dead barely held together by a few old threads and i m still here there ain t much left to see no well i m still holding on and there ain t much left of me that s right mama well my fall from grace was a sight to see nobody even cared what became of me do i have to get down on my knees and ask the lord above have mercy please well i ve been rained on rode hard and put up wet danced with the devil til i m in debt took all i got and there ain t much left of me i ve been knocked down drug out and left for dead barely held together by a few old threads and i m still here there ain t much left to see no well i m still holding on well there ain t much left of me no well there ain t much left of me i said there ain t much left of me no yeah well there ain t much left of me oh1

times are changing you babe seems the older i get the less i seem to fit in a young person s world and the higher i climb the more i see desire and the keepers are all confined rubbing oyster of their pearls and i am the outsider a horse with no rider i am the fighter when the darkest day is done and i am the survivor not laying down and dying long distance driver and i will overcome my daddy he picked cotton not a day was begun but everyone s forgotten i almost climbed to the perfect gates and next to him i had an easy rode but i have my own heavy load a bitter kiss is been restored while the song of the rebel says and i am the outsider a horse with no rider i am a fighter when the darkest day is done and i am the survivor not laying down and dying a long distance driver and i will overcome yes i will every human has a right before the union rise up and fight were six minutes to midnight with an old flowing cup for every child born a bastard for every momma s life that s past her for every inside job disaster we ain t giving up and i am the outsider a horse with no rider i am the fighter when the darkest day has done and i am the survivor not laying down and dying a little fighter and i am only one

i m looking for a lazy stream where my heart is still and the air is clean we re gonna settle down we re gonna settle down i had myself a baby girl she s got her father s fine red curls we re gonna settle down we re gonna settle down ah ooh been on the road since seventeen but that don t sound like a lot to me we re gonna settle down we re gonna settle down we drank until the night ran out we trampled hearts and we fooled around we re gonna settle down we re gonna settle down ah ooh well i asked this boy to marry me then he dug up a diamond ring we tried to settle down we tried to settle down went everywhere round this world then our separate ways creeped up on us we couldn t settle down we couldn t settle down ooh ooh ooh well i broke his heart and cut him deep thank god he still believes in me i m gonna settle down we re gonna settle down