in the dim light from the television screen i saw you on the couch lookin at me batting your eyes oh so playfully i want ya and i walked over there and got on my knees and i looked up at you still lookin at me and i told you i was eternally grateful to god for a woman like you i turned over new i d kick the old habits like sniffin glue and just sitting around smokin with nothing to do honey i got a phone call late last night it was from an old friend who got in a fight with his wife of almost ten years he said he needed a drink and a place to sleep so he came on in and started countin sheep that night oh he dreamed of their wedding day he had two little kids when the storm rolled in took them by surprise they never were the same again aw but what was so good back then in the dim light of the television screen i saw you on the couch looking at me batting your eyes so playfully i want you

you work all day say that you want to but then the night comes around and i m home with you and we settle down to have dinner at the table money s been harder than we ve ever known yeah the last two years have been sorta slow but we ll get through it like we always seem to and i still love you like i used to you re the only one i know that will come through you re the only one that i can speak to lately you quit school when i joined the corp because the baby was young and needed lookin out for there was an accident now i can t work no more you say the colors in the garden are startin to fade but the clouds over head have turned a darker shade maybe someone will turn on the rain i still love you like i used to you re the only one i think will come through you re the only one that i can speak to lately time don t give us peace of mind it s to late to be on our side but i m thankful that you re still mine your daddy took off when you were born you held out hope that he would come back home but that was back when you still believed in unicorns the screws on my face are startin to show and the baby s been wearin torn up clothes i know that s not what you signed on to me for i still love you like i used to you re the only one i know that will come through you re the only one that i can speak to lately yeah i still love you like i used to you re the only one i know that will come through you re the only one that i can speak to lately

it s happening baby as if you couldn t tell from the look in my eyes every time you catch me staring at you well if i had the means i d put you in a brown box wrap it up tight send you down the highway to wherever i ll be you re like a girl who got a pretty pearl necklace sent to her house wrapped up with roses so complete with a poem to read i m just the boy pushing you on the playground look for a smile or a couple of tears i d give to you the black sky if you ever want it from me i ve dreamt that i was sleepin in a gutter covered in leaves wrapped up in the darkness but you laid there cold with me and we woke up in the middle of the ocean waves all around trying our best not to drown but you sank with me you re like a girl who got a pretty pearl necklace sent to her house wrapped up with roses so complete with a poem to read i m just the boy pushing you on the playground look for a smile or a couple of tears i d give to you the black sky if you ever want it from me i won t understand i won t be a good friend i won t hold your hand but i d give to you the black sky if you ever want it because you re like a girl who got a pretty pearl necklace sent to her house wrapped up with roses so complete with a poem to read i m just the boy pushing you on the playground look for a smile or a couple of tears i d give to you the black sky if you ever want it from me

i met a girl when i was down and out she showed me to her room and i know now you can always get tired of somethin you love sometimes rain the only thing that comes from above but it s alright when mornin comes i m gonna put up a fight yeah it s alright when my big city baby s up all night when my big city baby s up all night i took a plane ride yesterday from o hare to denver then to l a all them airports look the same drivin always seemed to be more sane but it s alright when mornin comes i m gonna put up a fight yeah it s alright when my big city baby s up all night when my big city baby s up all night i broke a picture of someone i loved sometimes bad memories need a good shove nothin ever seems to go my way i ve had seven bad years of not my days i ve had seven bad years of not my days but it s alright when mornin comes i m gonna put up a fight yeah it s alright when my big city baby s up all night when my big city baby s up all night my big city baby s up all night my big city baby s up all night

yeah i know i just got home but i can t take leavin alone so let s go we got to beat the weather and if i m lucky we can beat it together get your eyes out of the magazine i hope you brought the sunscreen because you ain t got the skin for mexico yeah it s quite a long jump from chicago well it s a long way to the next town it would be appreciated if you turned that frown upside down on the roller coaster you and me i wouldn t trade you for diamonds marie we should stop and get some cigarettes i think i got the cold sweats or maybe we could score us a dime bag this could be the last chance that we ll have because i know a guy who lives here i haven t seen him in years but i could call him up here from the pay phone he used to sell some damn good home grown well it s a long way to the next town it would be appreciated if you turned that frown upside down on the roller coaster you and me i wouldn t trade you for diamonds marie keep your eyes on the mirror i hope that cop gets off here because we re carrying now and you can bet i ain t in a hurry to go back just yet well it s a long way to the next town it would be appreciated if you turned that frown upside down on the roller coaster you and me i wouldn t trade you for diamonds marie well it s a long way to the next town it would be appreciated if you turned that frown upside down on the roller coaster you and me i wouldn t trade you for diamonds marie

you re a blackbird flyin through the night you re a fire that i wouldn t want to fight you re empty as the sky so forget yourself and i ll show you how to fly oh you re my angel you left your wings on the kitchen table i was in a hurry to be young and able you re so pretty when you lie so forgive yourself and i ll show you to cry you re my mountain the one i m trainin to climb i have to be careful take it one foot at a time beautiful as a rhyme you were written by a poet painted by artist back in time you re a blackbird flyin through the night you re a fire that i wouldn t want to fight

i ve been a fan of life in this town i ve never thought much of you screwin me around i left it all in a box sat in the pourin rain i never thought once that i could feel this kind of pain you placed it all on a bet and you lost it real quick so the sun burned out and the fog got real thick now you re all out of bread and you re goin to the store you fed the ducks last night and now they re comin back for more oh girl don t you worry about a god damned thing i ll be on the sidelines waitin in the wings for the medicine man to come and give me a shot i just need a little bit don t need a lot you threw me for a loop when you asked me to stay i see i made a good investment when i bought you the bouquet now i got a straight line sight to place that i want to be it s got much shorter stop lights and many more trees oh girl don t you worry about a god damned thing i ll be on the sidelines waitin in the wings for the medicine man to come and give me a shot i just need a little bit don t need a lot you got your glass on your future the other on the past i feel real bad but your depression never lasts yeah you ll be rosy red and cheery when tomorrow comes around but i ll be fast headed north on a big ole greyhound oh girl don t you worry about a god damned thing i ll be on the sidelines waitin in the wings for the medicine man to come and give me a shot i just need a little bit don t need girl don t you worry about a god damned thing i ll be on the sidelines waitin in the wings for the medicine man to come and give me a shot i just need a little bit don t need a lot

when that sun come up you re gonna find me solid gone when that sun come sup you re gonna find me solid gone when you wake up this morning you re gonna know you ve done me wrong yeah mistreat me momma i can t take no more of you you mistreat me momma i can t take much more of you yeah that s the reason why i m leaving goddbye bad news i got a nickle and a dime i got holes in both my shoes i got a nickle and a dime i got holes in both my shoes but i ain t bein mistreated like i was when i was with you come tomorrow morning you re gonna find me solid gone yeah when that sun come up you re gonna find me solid gone when you wake up this morning you re gonna know you ve done me wrong yeah when you wake up this morning you re gonna know you ve done me wrong oh yeah

girl it seems we won t be coming home soon corpus finds me singin my old highway tune oh i can make you swear i hung the texas moon can you hear the bird when it whispers can you feel the sun when it hides could you walk a mile in my footsteps could you stay with me for a while i could make you swear i hung the texas moon well the band is my brothers and the road it keeps me high but the van it is my home girl and it seems to keep me in line but sometimes i swear i hung the texas moon oh i swear yes i do well the harps are playin while the angels cry if you re a god send girl why d you have to die well for twenty years i cried and for fifteen years i tried to make you think that i could hang the texas moon oh i swear yes i do i could hang the texas moon

five years old with a smile on my face mommas in the kitchen daddys playin bass downtown downtown dad walks in says sherry my girl we need to talk remember that night with john boy well you know i saw it all and i was scared for the first time well then one thing led to another and left my mom down on the floor dad said once you had everything but you chose to be a whore so we re gone gone to the next town oh my friends we were gone just like that well it s been seventeen years since i ve seen my mom five years for my dad and i hear he s tryin to get a job downtown yet again if it weren t for my grandad i wouldn t be standin here today all the years he spent pushin me sayin boy go on and do your thing downtown make me proud son oh and here i am i m playin downtown five years old with a smile on my face mommas in the kitchen daddys playin bass downtown

well you think that you re some woman and this is some kind of town and you know that this man is gonna follow you all around to the ends of the county to the edge of the state goin all around the world ridin on your tailgate i m not used to your attention you usually turn and walk away days of redemption what have you to say what have you to say what have you to say now well you got some kind of nerve lookin the way that you are in your bob dylan t shirt fillin up my tip jar you keep bringin me whiskey you keep askin me for my songs you sent me your number girl i hope that you did not take it wrong cause i m not used to your attention you usually turn and walk away days of redemption what have you to say what have you to say what have you to say now

there s a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer she s an overnight sensation after twenty five years sharp fast curves power steering unroll that twenty buy me some beer ain t too bad too bad at all pick up the phone if i ever call hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy there s a pretty little girl outside the van window bout 80 cities down 800 to go six crammed in we ain t never alone never homesick ain t got no home check my mail if you would please jenn collect my things till i m in town again hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy but i get a little closer everyday gonna be a little while fore i m back your way i ve seen just how much i can stand one night in kansas city i thought about killing a man seen my number fly by on interstate 10 seen the mountains of montana at 7 00 am and i keep it all together for the sake of the kids got your fine ass self on the back of my lids hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy hell no i ain t happy but i ain t too crappy no i ain t too crappy too crappy at all no no

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 but when she opened up her mouth and that sweet voice came out i lost track of my own name now she s found herself and i lost mine and i m just another guy who can t give her anything well the drifter he holds on to his youth just like it was money in the bank and lord knows i can t change sounds better in the song than it does with hell to pay i might as well have slipped that ring on her finger from a window of a van as it drove away cause now she s found herself and i lost mine and i m just another guy who can t give her anything well dreams are given to you when you re young enough to dream them before they can do you any harm they don t start to hurt unless you try to hold on to em after seeing what they really are she used to dream em with me every single crazy one till they started hurting her too now she s got some of her own and outgrowing me might be the best thing for her she s ever done a light that s meant to shine as bright as hers can t be kept in the shadows for too long a heart that wants to live and a soul that wants to give can t just sit at home alone lord she gave me everything i never wanted anything i couldn t give just what was inside of me and now she s found herself and i lost mine and i m just another guy who can t give her anything now she s found herself and i lost mine and i m just another guy who can t give her anything

way you look at me like that something s got to give pretty soon throw it on a camel s back something s got to give pretty soon living hard to chase the dream way beyond our ways and means yours don t mean a goddamn thing that s what you said but don t believe it that shattered look upon your face something s got to give pretty soon swallowed but can t stand the taste bark at the wind chase the moon living fast and drinking lots list of things we haven t got tired of life with the have nots that s what you said and i believe it maybe what you need is for someone to send you flowers someone strong and mean who can prove he has the power to show you more than charm and take you on your way to where you want to be at the end of the day and it breaks my heart in two to know it ain t meant to be but it ain t me it ain t me you said that it s the things i do about me that s attracted you so if i started doing something else what would we have left and you say you just want compromise then act so different all the time now the reasons why you said goodbye just another way of telling lies something s got to give gotta give pretty soon or else we re gonna lose the very things that made it bloom sitting in silence in a cold and lonely room while the world goes on around us something s got to give gotta give pretty soon or else we re gonna hate each other and that would be the saddest thing i ever seen

i know your daddy hates me and i got a room in hell reserved i know he wants to kill me and it s the least that i deserve but i always loved his daughter that s something that i know you know just sometimes don t do what i oughta sometimes i yes when i should no i know your daddy hates me and i drink more than a whale but my failures ain t for lack of trying it s just a little too late now to prevail but you always knew i was a screw up long before i screwed us up you said it endeared you to me but in the end you just gave up and i always loved your daddy i loved your mama even more and i always loved their daughter that s for sure i know your daddy hates me i know i probably hate me too but i also know you don t hate me even though you probably like to and ought to and it s a little too late for writing love songs but i never did anything on time happiness for your big adventure see you darling down the line and i always loved your daddy i loved your mama even more and you always was the apple of my eyes that s for sure and i always loved your daddy i loved your mama even more and i always loved you darling that s for sure

be careful that you don t use up your ninth one we all were careless once we all were careless once it can t be too much fun just going round once it all can slip away one banana peel away you left this big ole void sure miss your sweet voice gone into the void we all were careless once we all were careless once we all were careless once we all were careless once we all were careless once

careful where you leave your lipstick cause everybody knows your shade when you put it on my collar it dont wash off for days your colors are on my pillow mascara memories where i lay and curled up by the window its a perfume high i just cant shake girl ive tried and ive tried to change my mind but baby i was never good enough to fall in love to feel your touch or to give you every thing youd ever need cause you only call me up when youre short on love and down on your luck you let go of some other puppets strings but if thats how its gotta be i hope it makes you happy you can take what you want you can take what you need you can even have my foolish pride its never done too much for me i will play the fool you know its a role i cant deny there aint a thing i wouldnt do just to have you for one more night girl ive tried and ive tried to change your mind but baby i was never good enough to fall in love to feel your touch or to give you every thing youd ever need cause you only call me up when youre short on love youre down on your luck you let go of some other puppets strings but if thats how its gotta be i hope it makes you happy

my daddy called me on a friday morning so sad to tell me just what you d done you tried so hard to make us all hate you but i think you was the only one sick tired pissed and wired you never thought about anyone else you tried in vain to find something to kill you in the end you had to do it yourself who s to blame for the loveless marriage who s to blame for the broken band you ran from life and all its pleasures your own teeth marks in your own damned hand thrown out before the date expired you d rather die than let anyone help you d rather die than take a stab at living nothing would kill you so you do it yourself everyone has those times when the night s so long the dead end life just stares you down leanin back under the microphone and turn your demons into walls of goddamned noise and sound and it s a sorry thing to do to your sweet sister a sorry thing to do to your little boy a sorry thing to do to the folks who loved you your mama and daddy lost their only boy and some might say i should cut you slack but you worked so hard at unhappiness living too hard just couldn t kill you so in the end you had to do it yourself living too hard just couldn t kill you so in the end you had to do it yourself

he kept a loaded gun in the closet and another one in the dresser drawer just in case the one in the closet didn t make a big enough hole she had his breakfast ready every morning and his lunch in a box sitting out by the kitchen door she d make sure he had everything he needed and hug his neck and tell him how much she loved him and it was beautiful you should have seen it then she d make herself a pot of coffee just the way she liked it and sit down and enjoy the quiet of the house all alone about two o clock or so every afternoon the quiet would start getting to her and she d watch the clock until he came back home and she understood just what he needed when he came home every evening was just a couple of beers and a couple of minutes to cuss about his day so she d fix him a nice hot supper while he ranted and raved about one thing or the other and she never once told him what he was going on about didn t add up to a thing and she never touched that gun in the closet it was his and it was there just cause he wanted it to be she didn t get out much so she never knew what it was that made him so afraid most women today would say she was a disgrace most men would say she wasn t much to look at and they d all say she d be a lot better off if she cared a little bit more about what they all think she could have a life of her own if she had a little pride some silicone implants and another man on the side but she s got a loaded gun in the closet and it s there anytime she wants it and her one and only man knows it and that s why he put it there in the first place

i went one more time to the five and dine tonight i came back dead broke with a bottle of coke and a shiner on my eye then i found your number i called it up i drank whiskey straight from my coffee cup then i left the house and i headed out there were empty bottles and cigarette smoke someone pass it around and tell me one more little dirty joke cause im lonely as ever im ugly as sin i need somethin better than this shape that ive been in tonight ive been in tonight little angel of the moonlight must have fallen down from grace cause its gettin way past midnight and i see the tears that stained your pretty face but youre all innocence lace and white little angel of the moonlight i found one more rhyme at the bottom of my page just another line about all the times you turned your back and walked away left me here with my heart in my hands dont you worry dear if i dont understand all these little things theyre gonna make me who i am little angel of the moonlight must have fallen down from grace cause its gettin way past midnight and i see the tears that stained you weary face with that comin of age boy well he broke your heart again so walk on mine and now its wearin thin again tonight well it s black or white little angel of the moonlight