I'm out till four and I'm up at six And when I wake I have a fix To try and cure the morning after blues To help me make it through the day So I can drink
Well, I ain't never, I ain't never Seen nobody like you Well, oh never, have I ever Seen nobody like you Well, you call me up and say you'll meet me
Chorus Baby, are you gettin' tired of me? I can see the blossoms fallin' from the trees Like a love that used to be Baby are you gettin' tired of me?
You gotta four piece band and a L.A. tan You smile at me and you shake my hand But I got something baby that you need You'll stab me in the back just
It's been such a long time since she's talked to me Out here in this phone booth I'm chilled to my knees I dial her number and I just can't believe She
Run a mile, run a mile to the river Gonna throw off the hunting hounds Run a mile, run a mile to the river Gonna wash away or drown Well I was only there
Well it's been years since I made all the rounds And closed up all the honky tonks in town I just got used to being on my own Waiting for no one to call
I went out last night and stayed out way too long When I looked around and all my friends had gone You know, I stayed so long, I could not go home Oh
Well, I smoked and drank another night away I hit it pretty hard again yesterday But I was only waitin' up to hear you say "You'd better watch out where
Remember when we hung in the low places in 1979? We used to think that it mattered to the man with the money Where we spent our time Well, I knew a little
We used to be so happy, we used to be so true We used to think there wasn't anything we couldn't do But they could see right through us we didn't seem
Well a long time ago when I left home I never thought I would be Part of a wheel in a cog on a belt That turned the big machine I wanted out on the road
My pockets are empty though my wife has sent me To the store for some cigarettes and bread I started walking there got as far as the square Then the smell
Well lightning struck at midnight with the thunder and the rain My sleep was interrupted by the rhythm of a train I asked of the conductor where this