All the Pretty Girls Leave Town

All the pretty girls leave town
All the pretty girls leave town
Well all the pretty girls leave town

They leave in the spring
They leave everything behind
Push those rusty Mustangs to the closest county line

All the pretty girls leave town
All the pretty girls leave town
Well all the pretty girls leave town

They leave in the fall
When they jump the gossip wall
Have you heard about the young one that ran away and never called?
All the pretty girls leave town
All your pretty girls are leaving town
Well all the pretty girls leave town

They leave all the time for the city with some pictures inside
Some turn into the story that no fortune can deny

All the pretty girls leave town
All your pretty girls are leaving town
When you gonna leave this town?
When you gonna leave this town?
'Cause all the pretty girls leave town

Amor Azul

I didn't want to, but I drank it
When you twisted my arm you didn't have to break it
Blue, blue love
It went down easy, I got good people
Then I saw your picture and remembered you were evil
Blue, blue love

Blue love is the taste of something you can't have
Blue love is for the one that's never coming back

I took a trip, it was far, far away
You kept the rope tied tight anyway
Blue, blue love

I remember what it's like to fall in love yes I do
The feeling and the color were never lost on you
I'm just a dog in the street at night
You'd throw me something if you'd only sleep tight
Blue, blue love

I know this is real so I won't complain
But when I feel it I feel a lot of pain

Blue, blue love
Blue love is the taste of something you can't have

Blue love is for the one that's never coming back
Don't stop me now we're just getting started
I'm gonna take you to the place that you wanted

Anybody

I'm having such a good time killing myself
So don't start it with me
Inspired in the backbone, well this [??] is all I need
They're pulling at the string around my finger
To remind me not to be so cruel

Tell me, who wants to live their life like some feel-good movie
First a scene from you then a line from me

Pick up the pieces to your shattered attitude
Rearrange them, maybe make a life
I'm gonna count every hour you spend
Worrying about what's wrong

There's ready hot coals inside the kitchen
And a bullethole through the map on my wall
A crutch under my tongue
And a scene inside my imagination

Just a scene from you, then a line from me
It's underneath me, it's underneath everybody
Lie after line, our minds wrapped around the body
So just leave a message, then never talk to me
If you don't really want me then I don't want anybody

If that's a picture of a statue being lowered down
They would cook the books on my life story
Well who wants to live their life like some feel-good movie
There's the scene from you then a line from me
It's underneath me, underneath everybody
Lie after line, our minds wrapped around the body
So just leave a message, then never talk to me
If you don't really want me then I don't want anybody

Bad Florida

She put her purse on the bar and it sat like a tombstone
She don't need a car 'cause it's so close to home
We'll she'd get along until he came along
Talking bad Florida as long as it's hot
Bad Florida, as long it's hot

He's always shine shine shine
For the strangers he meets
Shine shine shine and quick on his feet
When he came along in a week gone
Down to bad bad Florida as long as it's hot
Bad Florida as long as it's hot

It went cold down in Florida but he was frozen with time
She was a hurricane that broke every night
First he was wrong and then he was gone
Bad Florida it's as long as it's hot
Bad Florida as long as it's hot

Bitters Past

I remember too many drinking songs
When I broke the bottle the drink was all gone
It’s a curse or worse the wine stained letters at the bottom of your purse
That say, "I miss hanging with you"
"I miss laying with you"
I don’t want to grow old drinking
But I want to grow old drinking with you

I know too many drinking songs
When I broke the bottle the songs were all gone
I’m uphill until I crack my skull on the wagon wheel
But still I miss driving to you
I miss riding with you
I don’t want to grow old drinking
But I want to grow old drinking with you

You bring the bottle, I'll bring the glass
We'll scrape the bottom and swallow the bitters past
I don't want to grow old just drinking
I could grow old drinking with you

I remember too many drinking songs
When I broke the bottle drink songs they'd both gone
It's a curse or worse the wine stained letters at the bottom of your purse
That say, "I miss hanging with you"
"I miss laying with you"
I don't want to grow old drinking
But I want to grow old drinking with you

You bring the bottle, I'll bring the glass
We'll scrape the bottom
And swallow the bitters past
I don’t want to grow old drinking
But I want to grow old drinking with you
I don’t want to grow old always drinking
I could grow old drinking with you
Drinking with you
Drinking with you
Drinking with you
Drinking with you

Black Dog

black dog in the warm sunshine
looks like she's lost her mind
why don't we call her back?
she can't go on like that.

we're standing in the doorway now
wondering how black dog got out
if she could only hear her name
black dog might come back again
black dog will you come around?
black dog won't you lay yourself down?

she can run and she can play
black dog likes to get away
she can bark and she can bite
black dog keeps you up all night
neighbors are getting tired
black dog is in their yard

mend your fence a time or two
before you have to start anew
black dog will you come around?
black dog won't you lay yourself down?

black dog will run again
because she's not listening
sun is setting on her day
black dogs wandered far away
i want to see your face
when they put black dog back in place

you can say it won't be done
but tomorrow won't be long
black dog will you come around?
black dog won't you lay yourself down?
black dog will you come around?
black dog when will you lay yourself down?

Black Hearted Ways

You took the news like a good zombie should
The old man's blues fell on you with a shiver
It was far too late to react in any other way
You knew you were getting let go just not today

They found you outdoors running with the unfortunates
Now they're sending you back to your black hearted ways

I understand you had to seize the it
The young one chooses to bleed it like a river
The sun was up and gone by the time you killed desire
It was time to trade the land for steady water

They found you outdoors running with the unfortunates
Now they're sending you back to your black hearted ways

I can't remember whose fault it really was
But you found comfort when I said it was mine
I suppose you made that bed on the day that you decided

They'd find you outdoors running with the unfortunates
Now they're sending you back to your black hearted ways

They found you outdoors running with the unfortunates
Now they're sending you back to your black hearted ways

They're sending you back to your black hearted ways
Sending you back to your black hearted ways

Carry Me

People love you like a diamond in their hands
They don't know that diamond like I do
Put you up in the bluebird sky until they lose sight of you
People love you like a diamond in their hands

I always wanted to chase you down
Like many I fell in love with you
And when you gave your heart back to me
I didn't know what to do
I always wanted to chase you down

Carry me, carry me back to you heart tonight
Carry me, carry me through this cold midnight

Many times a young man has to wander around
Until he breaks himself in two
Not all, but many, many of us never learn what to do
Many times a young man has to wander around

Well I had my reasons for leaving
And now I know that I was wrong
It was selfish to think you'd be better off
Just cause I wanted to be further along
I had my reasons for leaving you

Carry me, carry me back to you heart tonight
Carry me, carry me through this cold midnight
Bury me, underneath your starlight

Here comes that old devil midnight
And I have not slept in days
And there'll be no rest on this midnight
If the highway has it's way
Here comes that old devil midnight

Carry me, carry me back to you heart tonight
Carry me, carry me through this cold midnight
Carry me, carry me back to your side tonight
Carry me, carry me through one more cold midnight
Bury me underneath your starlight
Bury me underneath your starlight

Death of a Traveling Salesman

When I'm at your door, and the time is right
I can take you now, down the road tonight
But your door is dark, and the night is far from over

So I turn away, can you turn it down
I say roll up the windows some, let's drive out of town
Well the engine's cold, and the drive is far from over

What is home?
Just some stories for your new friends
What is home?
Just another shelter when the light is gone

All gone

It's a brand new skyline highway, with the same old room
And the TV warms you, you caught a ride to the bottom
Where you're not alone, none of you is all alone
All alone...

What is home to you?
Just some story for your new friends
What is home?
Just another shelter when the work is done
All done

Well deliver me into your life
Pull it over now, let's rest tonight
I say no more travelling, no more light
And when I'm gone you can drive all night
And once for me
Drive all night and once for me
You can drive all night and once for me

Drive all night next to me
Drive all night next to me
Drive all night...

Don't Walk Alone

A whisper of a diamond cuts into the crowd
When that money talks I think it's too loud
I'm not a carpenter but I know a line
I wouldn't draw one 'cause I'm not that kind

But I'll, I'll take you home
I'll take you home
Don't walk alone

Some men are boys, they make the same mistakes
And they try to hide it all behind that little boy's face
With a new set of eyes you surely will see
The same old boy I used to be

I have been watching you all the night through
The rough hands of the others and what they will do
I've not been drinking, my eyes got it right
I'll stay that way till you're out of sight

Everywhere Is Somewhere

Rat tail skinny girl wearing long sleeves in July
What a body'll do to escape or have a good time
When you took stupid on me
Was it to be understood
That it would just be a matter of time
'Fore you were off your feet for good

I am the ignorant one
I will never know
How they took you down
And how they robbed your soul
I just want you back
I just want you back

Everywhere is somewhere and everybody is somebody's child
Do they lie awake guilty as hell and think about you all the while

I won't be seeing you again unless you visit me in a dream
If I ever reach the other shore I will curse the one who took you from me
I am the ignorant one
I will never know
How they took you down
And how they robbed your soul

I could kill the boy who dragged you to that hole but it won't bring you back
I just want you back

Downtown Lights

I can see downtown lights in here
But I can't see downtown lights so clear
But I can't see you

I get up, all day I sit alone
Well I get up, all day I sing this song
When can I see you
When can I see you
When can I see you

I can see downtown lights from here
I can see the downtown lights so clear

I let on, one day that you were mine
Well I let on, one day and you were gone
And I was let down

[I don't need downtown lights in here]
[Don't wanna die in here]
[I'm gonna die in here]

Get Some Lonesome

There's a man, I want to know again
Get him to grow and then I'm gonna throw him back to you
I knew that man, he fell out of the sky
Swore that love would never die
He understood what he meant to you
Along came this boy, he liked to travel
More like wander off
Come home with the birds
Maybe sleep out in the yard
He was two arms full of noise
He's a shadow but he wants to be real
Just a shadow but he wants to be real
He's a shadow but he wants to be real again

Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome

You loved that man with everything you had and then some
Even when he was too lonesome to give back
You'd throw something on the fire
Sometime's he'd walk away
Mostly he came back but not today
No matter how you tried to pave the way
He denied his grave with you
He's a shadow but he wants to be real
Just a shadow but he wants to be real
He's a shadow but he wants to be real again

Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome

I see that man, he's playing your guitar
Wondering where you are
And the house is dark and hollow
He's a shadow but he wants to be real
Just a shadow but he wants to be real
He's a shadow but he wants to be real again

Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome
Get some lonesome

Goin' Nowhere Fast

All of the things they said would happen to you
Don't you know they're all coming true
Goin' nowhere fast

Nothing's as strange as when it seems
You're living out your worst possible dreams
Goin' nowhere fast

Well I learned my lesson and I learned it again
I heard what she said, "Live fast and die stupid"
Goin' nowhere fast

My compass is spinning like a gambling wheel
It takes a hideous misfortune for to tell how I feel
Goin' nowhere fast
Goin' nowhere fast

Well I threw it all away like shoes into the street
These terrible things will tear me in three
Goin' nowhere fast
Goin' nowhere fast

Well I don't care what time will tell
Just tell me if I might as well be halfway to hell
Goin' nowhere fast
Goin' nowhere fast

Well I learned my lesson and I learned it again and again
I heard what she said "Live fast and die stupid"
Goin' nowhere fast
Goin' nowhere fast
Goin' nowhere fast

Goin' On a Drunk

We're goin' on a drunk
Goin' on a drunk now
Goin' on a drunk
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Mama get the liquor
Brother get the wine
If you could get the weed now
We're goin' on a drunk

Goin' on a drunk
Goin' on a drunk now
We're goin' on a drunk
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Ain't goin' to church
Ain't goin' to school
Ain't goin' to work, no, no
Ain't goin' nowhere

Goin' on a drunk
We're goin' on a drunk now
Yeah, goin' on a drunk
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Goin' on a drunk
We're goin' on a drunk now
Yeah, goin' on a drunk
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Here come mama
Here come daddy now
Here come mama say boy get up get drunk

Goin' on a drunk
We're goin' on a drunk now
Goin' on a drunk
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Goin' on a drunk
We're goin' on a drunk now
Goin' on a drunk now
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Goin' on a drunk
Goin' on a drunk now
Goin' on a drunk now
Yeah we're goin' on a drunk

Goody Boy

Well my mama likes it when I don't write home
I never write that woman home
And my daddy likes it when I'm skipping school
So I skip my school
And my girlfriend likes it when I treat her bad
So I treat her bad

You know the police like it when I steal my boots
Skip out the back and I steal my boots
And my landlord likes it when I don't pay rent
I never pay that jailbird no rent

Well the neighbors like it when I'm good and loud
So I'm good and loud, I'm good and loud

My girlfriend likes it when I come home drunk
So I come home blind
Yeah she likes it when I turn my back
So I turn my cold back on her
Well she loves it when I walk away
You know she loves especially when I walk away
Well she loves it when I walk away
Yeah she loves it when I walk away
So I run away I run away

Yeah, Goody Boy

Guardian Angel

She wakes up to find that one of her guardian angel wings is broken
After three days of sleeping in, it's goodbye again

I knew things were getting bad
When I'd count on one of the blackouts you might have
To forget what you said, what was done last night

Now darlin' let's get the hell off of this night
And bounce all of these ___ out of our life

To add up each lie
To hit the one that you can't hide behind
That nobody's gonna get hurt this time

She wakes up and finds that both of her guardian angel wings are broken
After three years of sleeping in, it's goodbye again

Again...

Half a Day

Why'd you have to come to town when I'm gone
You could have picked a better day
Than when I'm away
It's just my luck
I'm going to miss you by half a day

Every time I'm making plans to be with you
I'm waiting for that other man to finish leaving you
What's my luck, I'm gonna miss you again

This feels like the night my plane goes down
Twenty minutes later your train gets to town
Why'd you have to come around when I'm away

I woke up on the coldest day I've ever known
I never strayed all summer long
But you weren't alone
It's just my luck I'll never miss you again

This feels like the night my plane goes down
Twenty minutes later your train gets to town
Why'd you have to come around when I'm away
You could have picked a better day then when I'm gone
WHy'd you have to come around when I'm away

Hanging Tree

Put your arms around the one
Whose heart that you've just broken
And take them to the bottom again
Why don't you leave

What you see when you're far away
Gets blurry when it's in your face
Find yourself someplace new to stay
Why don't you leave

Why don't you pick up and go
You've already let me know
That I'm nothing to you anyhow
Who is the weak one now
You don't need me 'cause you don't need
Anyone in here can read the writing
On the hanging tree
Why don't you leave

Once you tried to make some ground
And there you were backstabbing me down
You got lazy so you stuck around
Why don't you leave

You were set free but you could not run
Must have mistaken weak for strong
The slowest reaction to the fastest gun
Why don't you leave

Why don't you pick up and go
You've already let me know
That I'm nothing to you to trust
And that is the truth about us
You don't need me 'cause you don't need
Everyone but you can read the writing
On the hanging tree
Why don't you leave

Tonight I watched you from below
And I could tell you wanted to go
Just outside the law
Why don't you leave

Happy Now

Tattoo Parlor Man had a terrible fight
It’s not with one of his customers, it’s his wife
She’s been screaming for over an hour
He’s been downshifting uphill and still losing power
Are you happy now
She said you ruined me somehow
Are... you... happy now

Young man on the roof took his life today
And he left his parents’ bible inside anyway
He wanted them to miss him as part of the plan
But nobody ever even gave a damn
Are you happy now

They were laughing as you went down
Are... you... happy now
Like the part of a dream you remember later on in the day
And when the person in your life you didn’t want is here to stay

And when the band came out and played a game of cards
Did you get happy
Are.. you... happy now

There was an old woman crying in her own front yard
She was on her knees and praying to the night rush hour
Nobody knew what to do or what to say
The traffic lights changed and we just drove away

Like the part of a dream you remember later on in the day
And when the person in your life you didn’t want is here to stay
And when the band came out and played
Are you happy now

You grounded me somehow
Are... you... happy
Are... you... happy
Are... you... happy now

Hell on Earth

That's a mighty strange bark
Two parts hound and one part billygoat
And a funny way of asking favors
Flat on your back minutes before you pass out

The devil in your eye, in fact he's taken over inside
He's gonna ride you your whole life
Though I love you I just don't like you tonight

Fire on your tongue, sparks of hate and fear of everyone
Still you play the party clown, kicking all of us idiots around
We've seen this night before, you're falling in then out the door
It's not funny anymore
Though we need you we just don't want you tonight

I don't want to be the things you sometimes call me
Everybody has their blind side
Though my friend I don't know salt from dirt
I just know you're in hell on earth

You slept through the afternoon
Now the sirens are bringing you back to
The same questions every time
The same answers, same lies
Straight through the black cloud skies
Though she loves you she just don't want you tonight

I don't want to be the things you sometimes call me
Everybody has their blind side
Though my friend I don't know salt from dirt
I just know you're in hell on earth
Hell on earth
Hell hell hell on earth
Hell on earth

Tell me to go
Just tell me to go to hell

Help Me Find My Spacegirl

Help me find my spacegirl

I went to the drive-in and she was not there
Just some green faced big eyed ghoul in a rocket chair
I went to the TV and she was nowhere
Just some junked up boys with guns and slicked back hair

Help me find my spacegirl
Help me find my spacegirl

Will I meet her in the backyard digging arrowheads
Or maybe on the midnight highway
Or some truck stop instead
Won't you help me find her

Does anybody know what she looks like
repeat 4 times

Help me find my spacegirl
repeat 5 times 

Hey Rosine

Hey Rosine, don't offend my reason
Just keep your candles burning
Youth will not be wasted on you
Hey Rosine, put your pretty on, let's go out a walkin'
The summertimes will never leave you blue

Hey Rosine, I'm not asking you to wait around
Nobody's gonna hold you down
Youth will not be wasted on you

It's a long day when you're so far away from town
It's a long, long night when you're just nowhere to be found

Hey Rosine, you got your mama's worries and your daddy's trigger finger
Don't question if I'll always be true

Hummingbird

I didn't mean to confuse the machine
I just wrote some letters
Does that mean anything
You are an angel under the overflow
Looking for someone to let you grow
I'll take you on
I'll give you reason
It won't be long 'til you're a hummingbird

Hummingbird

When I said later I think I meant sooner
You never know what I mean anyway
I've been so lazy
Always run down
Under the weather and over the joy
You took me on
You give me some reason
How long will it be
'Til you're a hummingbird

Hummingbird

If you can start, then you can stop it
Rip up the tracks and make some new ground
You were an angel over the understand
Looking for someone to let you go

I Would Have Married You

As I move along the roadway, the Los Angeles highway
I travel all alone, sometimes fast but mostly slow slow slow
And I think about you, I think about you
I met a girl named Mercedes, she was sweet and beautiful
She had a son, she could talk about him on and on
I just thought about you
I only thought about you

Of all the things you said you wanted to do
There was only one time when I wouldn't let you
Of all the things that you said you wanted to be
I remember the last thing you promised me
You said, "I... would have married... you"

When I first left you I was proud and dangerous
I was alive, I was alive and alone
I never thought about you, I never thought about you
Well it wasn't much later, I thought I woke up beside you
And I called out your name
But you were two thousand miles away
I cried about you, I cried about you

Of all the things you said you wanted to do
There was only one time when I wouldn't let you
Of all the things that you said you wanted to be
I remember the last thing you promised me
You said, "I... would have married... you"

I... would have married... you

Jackie

I'll never drive you anywhere 'til they burn down the BMV
Even then I'll only have you in my dreams
I wanted to take you farther, further south
Maybe west again
But I left you to the wolves

Carburetors or jackpots
Bike locks and jack knives
Eight-tracks and St. Christopher all junked under yer constitution

They once held us down in Arkansas
Just to run the dogs over your bones
They were looking to score some new Storm Trooper boots
Deep in the guts of Texas
Strung out on the misery highway
Well, your bug-punching days are over

Carburetors or jackpots
Bike locks and milk crates
Full of 8 tracks and St. Christopher all junked under yer constitution

Jackie, I want to have you but your new man drives a tow truck
Well he ain't got a heart he's got a big gun
And I don't want to push my luck
I don't want to push my luck

Late Fall and the mercury rises for a ride on 315
To The Galaxy next to The Powder Room

Carburetors or jackpots
Bike locks and jackknives
Eight tracks and St. Christopher all junked under yer constitution

Jackie, I want to take you but your new man drives a tow truck
Well he ain't got a heart he's got a big gun
I don't want to push my luck
Jackie, I want to take you while your new man fixes his tow truck
Well he ain't got a heart he's got a big gun
And I don't want to push my luck
I don't want to push my luck

John Gilmartin

John Gilmartin was a strong man, he was a strong man
Till he fell down the stairs
And got his Workman's Comp
Now he lives alone, he's the oldest bachelor on the block of his Far Rockaway home, Rockaway

Scared old ladies from behind the door ask who is it
And then don't open up
They know John but you can't be too careful
Can't be too careful

Well I wouldn't want to be here when the sun comes up
Or the bars let out
When the gas bill comes he makes a call to his nephews down in Port Chester and Rye
Then comes the check and the promise of a visit some afternoon in the summertime

Scared old ladies from behind the door ask who is it
And then don't open up
They know John but you can't be too careful
Can't be too careful
Well I wouldn't want to be here when the sun comes up
Or the bars let out

John Gilmartin was a strong man he was a strong man
Till he fell down the stairs

Just Like Home

I dreamed I was a bottle of bourbon
Trapped in a burning down house
Then I heard you screamin' in the other room
Tryin' to catch that roustabout
Breakin' lamps and tippin' over tables
Rubbin' your big knees to the bone
I heard an ashtray fly when he said goodbye
I was adreamin' I was still at home

So I jumped a couple trucks goin' southbound
Tucked the money in the toe of my boot
Left my bills in the bottom of the chimney and made off with my best friend's suit
Flyin' on down the two-lane, sittin' in the free man's zone
And then another Peterbilt turned over
It wasn't traffic it was just like home

Shotgun sleepin' and breakdown, in a ditch by the side of the road
Law man pullin' up from behind so he can keep it feelin' just like home

Finally down to Louisiana with the sweat rollin' off my head
I saw two women dancin' on the table tops and another dancin' on my bed
The room service tastes like cigarettes so I jump right back on the phone
They said, "The woman you with is late for work"
I said, "God dammit this is just like home"
It was just like home

Head on out California way
Stop and take a few jobs to go
I like to quit right after first payday
Before my footsteps get too slow
And as I'm leavin' town I hit my best girl's house
And hit 'er up for a travelin' loan
They just roll their eyes and peel me off a few fives
Slam the door baby like home
Just like home

Movie stars and drag queens are draggin' me to the poor farm
I guess you better go now and leave me alone so we can keep it feelin' just like home

Now I kick back east from LA to catch the strangers' blues at home
In two dozen hours I'll be pushin' up flowers after I walk back through that door

It's good to be home
Just like home

Last Heathen

You left your light behind
And you lost your best friends in time
You grab the good book just to save some souls
Well there's no use saving mine

Well I see you had some schooling
And I see it on the street
You're working overtime just to please your man
Could you ever wash his feet

Can't throw your weight around
Can't throw your Bible down
You can't stop, you have been spreading word
Until the last old heathen dead and gone

You make a joyful noise unto God
And you sing out the honor of his good name
It make no difference what we scream at you
You stay lovers just the same

Can't throw your weight around
Can't throw your good book Bible down
You can't stop you have been spreading his word
Until the last old heathen's dead and gone

Now for every soul you save
There is a thousand angels lost in hell
You're tellin' me that I'm gonna burn
Well if it's true you'll be there as well

Can't throw your weight around
Can't throw your good book bible down
You can't stop it spreading his word
Until the last old heathen
Last old heathen's dead and gone

Lexington Jail

Well I don't have a nickel to put in your cup
And I don't have ten dollars just so you can fix up
I'm atravelin' myself
I don't appreciate your empty gas tank lines
I get back home tomorrow
Or maybe just lay down and die

I might have a true love but I'm just looking for a roof
I never lasted in a lie to her
But I might not tell the truth to you
And the truth about my home is that it's just easier to lie
Well a home is where I lay my head
Or maybe where I just lay down and die

I went to see some friends down Kentucky way
Spent the night getting sober in the Lexington jail
And when they let me go
I just stood with my hands to the sky
I'll be in Tennessee tomorrow
Or maybe just lay down and die

Said I don't have two nickels to put in your cup
And I don't have ten dollars just so you can fix up
I'm atravelin' myself
I don't appreciate your empty gas tank lines
All lies
I get back home tomorrow
Maybe just lay down and die
I get back home tomorrow
Maybe just lay down and die
I get back home tomorrow
Maybe just lay down and die

The Lonesomes

If I had my way, I’d live in your town
I’d leave today, and soon I’d be touching down
Though as it is, I feel the lonesomes coming on

My younger self says, "They've got you bent double now"
My tired self says, "Shut up and stay out of trouble"
And walk backwards circles dragging these chains
It’s called a job, and they're called the bank
And yes I believe I feel the lonesomes coming on

Just who do I thank, for what we've got going on
Who must I thank, for all that I have to show
If this isn't real, then I'll burn these bills
I’m not surprised you’re thinking about staying away
Darlin' how long 'cause I’m not the strong one
And I feel the lonesomes coming on

Where is the spark, who took the wheel
Who dropped the engine, busted the seal
Yes I believe, I feel the lonesomes coming on
Yes I believe, I feel the lonesomes coming on

Man That You Need

Could I be the man that you need
Well I think so sometimes when I'm out of my mind

Other men will doubt it, try to turn around
But I don't have the time to pay them any mind

So could I be the man that you need
Well I think so sometimes, when I'm out of my mind
Could I be the man that you need
I think so sometimes, when I'm out of my mind

Changeover
I'm not in the mood to lie
Changeover
My heart belongs to you
Moreover
I know that you would never try to keep me

I can handle the traveling if you can take the unraveling

Then could I be the man that you need
Well I think so sometimes when I'm out of my mind
Oh could I be the man that you need
Well I think so sometimes when I'm out of my mind

I want to be the man that you need

Maryhaven Family

And when you pass those blacks eyes
Half-smile, quickly look back down
Cause we both know hell is the place where the angels fall

Well her mama's got her own brand of poison she likes to do
And her old man's back from the war with his own brand too

It's the Maryhaven family

Mila

Last night I had a dream about you, Mila
I dreamed I was tired in your arms
A long veil covered my eyes
And I loved you, I loved you

Last night I had a dream about you, Mila
I dreamed I was holding you down
The ground fell from below
And I lost you... I lost you

And I woke up today and you'd gone far away
You were gone (you were gone)
You were gone

Last time I gave a damn about you, Mila
I heard you were married down south
They say he won you in a scheme and I lost you in a dream

And I woke up today and you'd gone far away
You were gone (you were gone)
You were gone

Last night I had a dream about you, Mila

Murder Murder

Murder murder is occupational
Yeah, on your way home
Murder murder under your footsteps
No matter who you are
Murder murder makes lots of money
Yeah, sets the gamblers on fire
Murder murder on your favorite radio
Especially when the count gets high

When he made a bet at 99
Made a hundred on Wednesday
Watch Lucky spend his money having a bang bang of a time

Murder murder inside the good house
And in the prettiest eyes
Murder murder at the bottom of your bottle
And on top of your grey skies

When he made a bet at 99
Made a hundred on Wednesday
Watch Lucky spend his money having a bang bang of a time

I don't know if you've been sold on this one
Even love is deadly
First he kills your mind till your body rolls to me

Murder murder

Murder murder the rich ones fancy
Yeah, the poor ones rage
Murder murder at the bottom of your bottle
And at the top of your page

Murder murder

My Man

Man on the street
Man in the home
Or down at the bar, drinking alone
Man, wherever I want him to be
Cause he is my man created by me

And as far as the man in this song is concerned
I am god
And if god says he's gonna die, he's gonna die
So my man's up in heaven writing a song
Or down in hell just singing along
Man, whatever I want him to do
Pleading with god who's singing to you

And as far as the man in this song is concerned
It can be so lonely down on earth
But if god says he's gotta go back
He's gotta go, back to the lonely earth
Where there's all kinds of characters

The New Franklin County Women

Raspy eyes, guitar hips
She's the singer for the Yips
And the new...
New Franklin...
New Franklin County...
New Franklin County Woman...

Moved to town to finish school
Rolling drunk and cornhusk tattoos
It's the new...
New Franklin...
New Franklin County...
New Franklin County Woman...

It takes ten hours by storm

Loves her pills and her guns and her pa
Punching sober boy in the jaw
It's the new...
New Franklin...
New Franklin County...
New Franklin County Woman...

Yeah she's the one, gonna take you home
And push kick push you onto the floor
It's the new...
New Franklin...
New Franklin County...
New Franklin County Woman...

Next to You

let me be next to you i want to understand
let me be next to you then we can watch the band
let me be next to you under your ceiling fan
i can hear every song better when i'm next to you

please don't pull all the stops out on me
when you think you've been cheated
i know i've lain some bad things down before
i've heard the sound of your voice and you drowned out all the noise
i'd made 'til now

let me be next to you i want to understand
let me be next to you then we can watch the band
let me be next to you under your ceiling fan
i can hear every song better when i'm next to you

i want to wake up singing every word you said. do you understand me?

let me be next to you i want to understand
let me be next to you then we can watch the band
let me be next to you under your ceiling fan
i can hear every song better when i'm next to you
...under your ceiling fan
i can hear every song better when i'm next to you

Oh People

i promised myself that I would not do the things that I don't want to
and i'm not being selfish with you
i just told myself that i would not waste any more of your time
since you promised you would not waste mine

oh people, i am not coming along with you

i've had so much to say about our messed up state
you'd wonder if it's going to break from under the love or the hate

oh people, i am not coming along with you

suddenly, i remember all the reasons that i'd gone
why should i keep pretending that nothing here is wrong

oh people, i am not coming along with you

now i'm not getting out of my head and i'm not going to run instead
there's someone waiting for me and there's no safer place to be

oh people, i am not coming along with you

One Last Question

Well there's one last question that I must ask of you
Well there's one last question that I must ask of you
Only one little question that I must ask of you
Did you want me to wait around until your boots give out from all that walking over me

Your heart's like a engine, lies like a cage
Gimme two huge eyes and a turnstile engine heart
Were you born to bring me down

No I will never hear those wedding bells
Said I will never hear those wedding bells
I think I will never hear those god damn wedding bells

'Cause your soldier boy is underground

Have you ever heard that coffin sound
Well have you ever heard it, that coffin make that sound
Then you will know, then you will know
Then you will know that your soldier boy
He's dead and he is gone

Said he's dead, dead and long long gone
Dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone
Yeah he's dead and gone

Out of Your Life

They had a fight driving home
It was four fists short of violence
So he dropped to his knees in the yard
To spend the rest of the night in silence

He went inside and he waited by the kettle for the tears to start
She went back out and she stepped on the pedal like it was his heart

Her eyes are all frayed, his are dark and played
And there's nothing left underneath
They're at ambition zero hour since he kicked himself in the teeth
Driving like a criminal and crying on the wheel
Dying just to rid yourself of everything you feel

Think you're lonely now, just wait until tonight

It's a trick just to learn how to keep him out of your life
keep him out of your life
keep him out of your life
Disconnected friends all over town
They're disconnected in time

She came back 'cause people rarely do
The thing that's best for him
A downward spiral of undesirable habits
Soon she caught him in a lie again
So she started it up and stepped down on the pedal like it was his heart
As he waited inside for the kettle to boil, it was as black as his heart

Stepped on the peddle like it was his heart
Stepped on the peddle like it was his heart
She stepped on the peddle like it was his heart

Stepped on the peddle like it was his heart
Stepped on the peddle like it was his heart
She stepped on the peddle like it was his heart

Like it was his heart
Like it was his heart
Like it was his heart

Poor, Poor LA

I've seen your imagination high above the halfway station
Always working, always making something for the pile
Then you set it all on fire
You can learn to make something real
That comes from the heel of your life
I'm still trying
You don't have to break your mama's heart to change the world

Mama's boy's daddy is in the crack house again
Watching car crash shows with the pipe in

A pack of dull monkeys could write circles around
That fourth grade mumbly slang
Stream of consciousness jive that you call a song
Is that going to be your story
Child you don't have to break your mama's heart to change the world
You're never gonna change your mind
Don't just rearrange the lies into a straighter line

Not too many years ago there was hippies killing people
a mile away from the Marlboro Man
Now there's sandpaper pants on the gutter punks and lowriders with their heads in the trunks or walking in fours and kicking in doors cutting it up and filling their cup
You don't have to break your mama's heart to change the world

Said you don't have to break your mama's heart to change the world
Change the world

Poor, poor LA
Poor, poor LA
Poor, poor LA

Rewind

Jimmy’s got this thing for my woman
Well she’s not really mine, she’s just all that I have

She drives me to work in the morning
I wash her dishes at night
Together we are something
Together always fighting like lovers

You know every single day we love and hate each other
I am sane 'cause I told myself so
Quite sane as I watch her walk around the bar
She buys my friends drinks because they love and love to drink
She is weak or at least she tells them so
She is tired of letting me spend the night
And when I look into her eye she tells me go and get a life
So I kill myself each and every night hey, hey
And I don’t even know what I want
Or maybe what I want is what you hate
And what you hate more is all of your friends
Telling you how to live your life
Because nobody knows, just you, you and I
Now rewind, let me watch it all over... all over

If I build a world on top of your word then we’ll have a running game
if this game should ever end
Then I will know that it’s time for bed
But you don't sleep tight when you’ve been alone too long
So turn to me now and rest your face in my hand
Because even they, they will never really know
What does sink and what does float
So as you lay down next to me
Well I pray your memory to keep on rewind, rewind
Rewind, now recline, said rewind
Let me watch it all over, all over
It’s all over

Jimmy’s got this thing for my woman
Well she’s not really mine she’s just all that I have
She drive, drives me to work in the morning
I wash her dishes at night
Together we are something
Together always fighting like lovers
You know every single day we love and hate each other
But now Jimmy’s got this thing for my woman
Well she’s never been mine, we've just killed a lot of time together

Special 20

Special 20 you hang the moon for me
With your clay red hair and crooked teeth
I walk when you talk and it's no surprise
With your whiplash tongue and hurricane eyes
Special 20, it's no surprise

A man is mostly a fool at best
Like the man who hurt you before
I might be horn-headed and dark-hearted at times
but if you're not mine to hold then I can't stop you if you need to go
Special 20, do you want to go?

You can dance up a storm and I wonder if you're coming home tonight
They'll be down at the quarry and the waters gonna be just right
Special 20 are you coming home tonight

A man is mostly a fool at best
Like the man who left you behind
I might be horn-headed and dark-hearted at times
But if you're not mine to hold then I will listen when you say goodbye
Special 20 did you say goodbye?

Soup Can Telephone Game Conversation

Soup can telephone game conversation
Is all I'm gonna to get out of you right now
Listen at you talking up your big book friends
I found a higher power down at the Lion's Den
Keep the candles burning and without a doubt
Keep the fire in the water until the flame burns out

Keyhole neckline saturation
It's a wonder that I'm talking with these wingtip blues
Listen at you talking up your big book friends
I found a higher power down at the Lion's Den
Keep the candles burning and without a doubt
Keep the fire in the water until the flame burns out

I'm gonna get you alone
Somewhere out of this party
And when I get you alone
I'm gonna... That's right

Soup can telephone game conversation
Is about all I'm gonna squeeze out of you right now
Now put that coffee down and come back to bed
Hard to get this with that in your head
We'll keep the candles burning and without a doubt
Keep the fire in the water

Listen at you talking up your big book friends
I found a higher power down at the Lion's Den
We'll keep them burning and without a doubt
Keep the fire in the water until the flame burns out

Sweet Violet

Always in the eye of the storm
Always a source and often a home
Strong and calm when everything's gone wrong
Sweet Violet

When I was on the darkest road
When I was tired and all alone
And I thought that everything was lost
Sweet Violet

When I look in your eyes
I can't put up a fight
I would drive all night to see you
Sweet Violet

When they took me downtown
And they locked my wheels down
When I'd fallen for the thousandth time
Sweet Violet, sweet Violet

When they call the number 
I'll be two steps from your door
Sweet Violet, sweet Violet

They Will Bury You

When you leave town, when you leave town
When you leave town you better leave for good

Said when you leave town when you leave town when you leave town
You better leave for good

And leave alone, like you know you should

And on the second day on the second day
On the second day you meet a girl
Too soon, too soon, too damn soon
She got up and ran
Left you sleeping with a pinecone in your hand

Never more, never more, never more will you be tied down
No, never more, never never more will you be locked down

You travel light, from town to town to town
Town to town to town

You come back home, people come back home
People come back home like they always do
They come back home like you always do

You come back home then they bury you
You come back home and they bury you
They bury you, they bury you, they will bury you

They bury you

Torture Comes to Mind

If there's a list of all the stupid things we've done
it's a long, long list and we've just begun

I pissed away most of my youth
In some lazy one street rock roll band
And the rest standing on some foreign corner
With a shovel in my hand
And a hat at my feet

When nobody in this world believes anything you say
You can't blame those teenagers
'Cause they're just stupid that way
Take a deep drink of the night
If you can't run, well I guess you'll have to fight
Torture comes to mind

When I think about pouring over every line of that same old story

If there's a list of all the stupid things we've done
It's a long, long list and we've just begun
I don't imagine that there's two kinds of people left in this world besides bad and evil
Lucky for me I'm stupid as the day is long
Stupid, stupid as the day is long
Stupid as the day is long
I'm stupid as the day is long

Tragedy Bound

I am tragedy bound
Locked and loaded, filed down
Everything I loved is under the ground
I can't see still for shaking but there's no one to hold me down
I am, I am tragedy bound

She was New York City bound
Young and hungry, strong and sound
Nothing behind her holding her down
She was much too tired of being small-town
She was, she was New York City bound

He was criminal bound
Blind and tired, totally strung-out
Down at the bottoms where no mercy is allowed
Found himself a stranger in the wrong part of town
He was, he was criminal bound

Now they were dark street alley bound
He took her money and he asked her to lay down
When she refused him the knife came out
He didn't want to hurt her but she called his name out loud
Jesus, Jesus was dark street alley bound

Now I am tragedy bound
Locked and loaded, filed down
Off to find this man in the devil's town
I can't see still for shaking but there's no one to hold me down
I am, I am, I am, yes I am
Well, I am tragedy bound

Troublesome Kind

When I was leaving town you said, "Write ten songs for me"
So I turned around and offered twenty if you promised to leave
Leave with me, find a new home
Then you turned away to where you said you belonged

One year later I came back 'round to deliver
Your first words to me, "Take me to bed now or lose me forever"
Didn't hesitate, didn't blink an eye
Turned and walked away, pulled down the blinds

And I know you are the troublesome kind
Almost as much trouble as I am
You may keep me by your side
But can you keep me in your heart one night

It's seems lately we're like a two-engine automobile
Both of us giving directions, but only one fits behind the wheel

Curled up in bed one morning
 Listening to the singer's warning
"How much of your love is true?"

If I were to stick around you'd have to be the devil in overalls
I think I'm gonna travel on so won't you see me to the rails
I know the story well, like night and day
I take you by the hand and you pull away

I know you are the troublesome kind
Almost as much trouble as I am
You may keep me by your side
But can you keep me in your heart one night?
Troublesome kind

True Ways

Saving some mystery for a gold-shackled bed
Love would last forever if we'd only stay interested
Commonlaw cousin kisses the Dutch uncle
And weak sister cries when she cracks his knuckle

She read my mind when she said
I'm lonely please come home
I'm lonely please come home
And I'll show you my true ways

Humor so sharp, quick and clever
Fingers a dark bruise for the pleasure
These off-hand remarks are so blunt and casual
Then we slide from the bed with claws and perfect lips

She read my mind when she said
I'm alone please come home
I'm alone please come home
I'll show you my true ways
I will show you my true ways

Throwing sympathy wrapped tight with malice
We're so damaged our kisses turn careless
The first cut isn't the deepest, it's only the first

She read my mind when she said
I'm alone please come home
I'm alone please come home
I'll show you my true ways
I will show you my true ways

Watching the Lightning

When all the work is over
And it's just begun
I probably shouldn't have told you
That I wasn't coming back for long
I need you still
Tonight my face could tell the story better
I never meant to leave you

Everybody always knew
That he would die in some fucked up way
And hearing that message now
It makes me want to stay away forever
He knew all pain
And we knew his heart was not in the gutter
He never meant to leave you

Dry your mind's eye and pick yourself back up
You never really knew where he was coming from
When you're watching the lightning
I hope you're not afraid anymore
The sky would only hurt you
If you never left the ground before

I can't believe you read that letter
I can't believe you read that letter
I can't believe you read that letter

Dry your mind's eye and pick yourself back
You never really knew where I was coming from
When you're watching the lightning
I hope you're not afraid anymore
The sky would only hurt you
If you never left the ground before

I never meant to leave you
I never meant to leave you
I never meant to leave you

When the Lights Went Out

You came into town with your sirens on
No edge lines and the median blown
Making enemies out of your old friends
They once ran with you
But never again

So you punch your way out of the door
Can't come back here anymore
It was up to you, now it's all downhill
Don't wanna walk away, but I know you will

Are you more afraid of good luck when you're down
Or the bad luck that follows your name
The only time the bad luck ever dropped
You never got up, you never got up again
You never got up again

When the lights went out, you were three feet high
Missing four days, yet no one cared why
There was nothing there but your last day
You laid down alone and you died that way

She walked by as the line came 'round
She looked you up, but mostly down
You made an enemy, out of your dear friend
She once ran to you, but never again
Are you more afraid of good luck when you're down
Or the bad luck that follows your name
The only time the bad luck ever dropped
You never got up, you never got up again
You never got up again
Again... again... again

All songs written by T. Easton/Heathen Songs, except:
"Bad Florida" and "Don't Walk Alone," "John Gilmartin"
and "True Ways" which were written by JP Olsen, and "Maryhaven Family" which was written by Easton/Haynes.