: Trying to remember the very last time I felt a simple thing going past Was it the day in old Georgia When you were trying to take a bath? She sees
: The second time around, you know it really got me down. Sister don't you judge it, just keep it to yourself now. And If you ain't got nothing good
Cups, A Pepsi in his hand, getting off the school bus. Films and drills and safety illustrations The crushed cars of driver education Now its tattooed girls
: All the fur and fin will lose again Cause our better is their worst reckonin' And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed And how will
: I opened my hands up to see what I've got. My days slip like coins into a slot. They are gone, the shadows lie long. I've been banking on a broken
: Mister pull up a chair I got time for tears Tell me all the stories that you never did Of the salty south The Seminoles held out While Geronimo died
harbor clings to the jetty For protection and support Out in the choppy waters the sharks swim and play You're all washed up when Poseidon has his day. When I was a girl
: I meet you for coffee We get together periodically I got a bad case I can't shake off of me The fevered walking round wondering how it ought to be
: Back in the long stretch of loneliness I have come to call a living, I'm getting something for all this love's labor, even when I am forgetting. Oh
: Looking out across suburban yards to the construct of our days through the thinning of the trees. Why can I only build a house of cards? That gets
: So money mad you mean and that's not how it's suppossed to be. You're ready to challenge and defend, yeah, but for all the wrong reasons. How much
Everything goes wrong Baby, if you took all the good stuff and you put it all together And you took all the bad stuff and you threw it all away Would I still be the girl
: Fly away little bird Any place in this open mouthed world Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest Everyone's got a need to go
: I drive a three county highway and every one of them town's got a firework show. It's 4th of July and I'm just now getting home, on the horizon, I
advantage and their guns Up the deer stand shooting up a storm And all the time You were telling me all those lies Silly man, I'm just a silly girl There
: You don't want me calling you up All melancholy sick from love You prefer it uncomplicated Things are tricky now I bet you hate it Your mind's eye
: I wasn't looking ot shift my direction My eyes straight ahead hands ten and two The gravity of our first connection Veering off the road and into you
: Jimmy died on his couch yesterday A friend of his ex wife called me to say He just gave it to God, slipped from the livin' With the bills pilin' up
