ain't no use in trying
mama's wondering when i'll stop fooling around "you're gonna
be a ramblin' boy until the right one's found" oh please mama
things will turn around i'll settle down just the other day
she was yelling "stop that drinkin'" told i can't get by forget
what she's thinking but i spent all my money at the bar downtown
oh lord i gotta settle down all of my drinking all of my partying
(i love my drinking i love my partying) don't tell me at my
age you wouldn't do the same don't waste you time with all your
whining there ain't no use in trying got kicked out for the
eighth time this week mama told me "get your act together, get
your life complete" oh please mama let me back in never gonna
touch them booze again about an hour after that horseshoe welcomes
me home i tap into a keg of old papa's homegrown and it don't
take me long before i'm on the street and all alone been up
all night on this drinking binge wandering from bar to bar got
thrown out of yet another honky-tonk again sweating off my hangover
in this texas heat and i always now that i'll come back around
backseat baby
she's got blond hair big brown eyes large breasts and nice skinny
thighs she's my backseat baby she gives me what i need she calls
me up on the telephone says pick me up i'm all alone before
i can get it in first she jumps in the back and takes off her
shirt we fall off the backseat on the floorboard she grabs me
by the neck and screams for more she goes straight down like
she knows to do she's so good and knows it too i'm getting action
like never before and before i know it we're on the bedroom
floor
drunk life
i start my day in my car on the way to the bar drink myself
some whiskey and some wine it's a good thing that bar ain't
far because if it were i'd wreck my car i like to stay there
'till its closing time i like the drunk life it's the life for
me when you live that drunk life you would not believe what
happens if i keep on living like this i'm gonna die when i'm
twenty six but for now i'm drunk as shit hangovers hurt so bad
i should have listened to my dad back when i was fourteen cigarettes
& tylenol that shit don't even help at all that's the price
i pay for being a fiend i roll out of bed in the afternoon head
downtown to my favorite saloon just so I can escape this ugly
world fourteen beers and twenty five shots I spend all the gawd
damn money I got just so I can find a pretty girl
farm boy blues
i don't want to work on the farm i just want to be in my baby's
arms and i want to drink all day long i can't wait to get to
east dallas and git gone well i can stand it for a week or so
but its been two i gotta go me and my baby we're leaving tonight
i can't wait to see them city lights now its me and the open
road heading east from old paso i got that beer on the left
the lady on the right i'm headed into east dallas tonight i'm
tired of waking with no clock i'm gonna tear that rooster's
head off i'm tired of living off the grain of the land well
i'm gonna get out of here as fast as i can
fine looking girl
well she's a fine looking girl with big white locking curls
i want to take her home but i wouldn't dare her poppa done told
me to beware all her friends tell her i'm so bad but when i
get with my baby she drives me mad i don't care what her poppa's
thinking gonna take her in my hot rod lincoln i don't remember
the rest
git gone
i've been chasing you for about five years and that's been five
years too long i'm through with you and i want somebody new
i'm gonna git git gone i'm gonna pass out on my front lawn i
really used to love that long blond hair it used to turn me
on but i'm sick and tired of your long blond hair i'm gonna
git gone what in the hell are you doing still here you used
to lead me on I'm getting in my car and heading for the bar
I'm gonna git drunk
shinin' brite
well it started out with one date you told me it was all fate
you never ever told me the truth and now its you that i'm seeing
right through it took you forever to say one truth and then
i found out who was sleeping with you it's a catch 22 i think
i'm giving in it wasn't really you i was attracted to i saw
your friends at the bar and asked them to shoot some pool but
then you jumped right in like you always do i drank twelve beers
so i figured what to lose it didn't take me long to get you
home with two whiskey sours and a kamakazee (some wild turkey)
the next morning i realized my disease (i woke up with a venereal
disease) you was gone you'd already cheated on me (and you gave
me herpes (three)) its just a normal old texas night star beer
shiner them stars shining bight you got a blue bonnet and a
yellow rose and you to hold you told me that you loved me darling
you said that we'd marry but then i said when i'd say now and
you'd just grin then i found out you're a lesbian (like music
to my ears so is her checkbook) because she's got lots of money
and a credit card that she gave to me i don't know why i love
but you'll have to agree you can't beat a rich lying stealing
tramp whore lesbian bitch from kentucky
six days, five nights
it took six days, five nights to get over you six days five
nights at the bar alone six days five nights to kill my hangover
they say drinking ever night make's my heart so strong and i
pray to my lord my god pick me up and take me home because we
all know i don't want to wake up alone six beers and five shots
of wild turkey whiskey you was gone and all i had was them old
jack johnny miller shiner rebel yell and budweiser wash it down
with some metro diner seeing all of these ugly old women but
they never looked better
the bird
i drink the bird all day long don't you know it makes me strong
when i'm down and feeling blue i drink a little whiskey and
forget about you i took my first shot back in high school everybody
did it it sure was cool now i'm older and i can't quit give
me a bottle and i'll empty it i lost my best friend and my girlfiend
too i lost the keys to my subaru i lost my wallet and my cellular
phone but i still got my whiskey bottle at home
too tall paul
my girlfriend ran off with my best friend and i sure do miss
him she don't talk to steve (me) she don't talk to nobody and
i'm still searching high and low i went down past austin gonna
find my way to that whiskey pouring you left me alone its dallas
on a saturday night and i'm drinking/singing at this bar all
alone paul down at adair's tells me its all right (i) told him
i just hope i make it home first i was sixteen and now it don't
matter we're gonna getting crashed tonight i went down past
san antone gonna find my way to that whiskey pouring you left
me alone so let's drink one or two or four it don't matter just
drink some more we're all gonna die tonight
tx stomp
i got nothing on my girl but a purple flower sitting on my dashboard
nothing in the world but a fallacy that she is even with me
so i sit at home all by myself its fixin' to be ten i've been
wondering about my girl been wondering where she's been but
i know she loves me (yeah, right) and i can bet its my own fault
i sit at home all by myself this tv's got me bored still wondering
about that girl its almost half past four so i go to sleep all
by myself no one to sleep with me and to my surprise I start
staring in the eyes of my girlfriends fiancé now i'm getting
old and i'm getting tired i've been wasting all my precious
time on you won't you love me too
| The Ghost of Bonnie Parker |
heading to my ex-girlfriends wedding
whiskey a blind date to be i'm in town for her wedding guess
it was years ago we spoke on a whim i sank in at the band on
your left hand any other time i would walk away but inside the
bottle i've chosen to stay i could have walked the line many
years ago but as always i found reasons to go nostalgia your
invitation struck me sore i won't pretend i never walked on
needles an pins why the years pass by an empty train wondering
why you never came back around for me why the years pass on
i won't stop wondering why i gave up everything
hemenway
well you could call it a dry spell i guess that would serve
the situation well and like a drought i'm in the dust bowl except
for crowded streets and the cold if i didn't have a heart i'd
certainly live a much healthier life standing in the archways
of your doorway in a lonely apartment on hemenway nervous like
a teenager on speed i broke down on my knees i hate the world
that made me i spent a fifth of my life with no one else we
drank a fifth of whiskey in front of your house another fifth
is for all the broken hearts the rest are empty valves and beat
up parts if i could be in limbo forever would we ever be together
you wonder why i don't tell the truth you wonder why i hide
behind these words well i got so many hopes and dreams you can't
be anything if you wanna be everything and its so easy in the
daytime to be hard-boiled but at night it's a different story
holiday
you didn't call me back for some new line guy but i'm not gonna
fight over sushi i hate the sea and i don't believe you if you
really think this thing we had wasn't through well sorry 'cause
i do when being with you is like forcing myself to drink i think
we need to rethink things i refuse the fact that you can refuse
me my better half is sinking while my lesser keeps drinking
maybe someday my insides will unwind in wasted times we get
further out of line don't wait for me i'm going out for days
away on holiday dead end streets and ex-girlfriends that i meet
end up my broken dreams did you drink three quarts of ugly yesterday
because i swear you didn't look that way when i met you maybe
i was high all the time maybe i just lied all the time don't
wait for me i'm going out forever
i won't beg
what were you thinking when you woke up this morning all the
pain in your eyes when you lie to me say your gonna leave me
i know deep down inside maybe i'm not what you need but i know
i'll never leave unless you make me you say "i'm tired of you"
and everything's my fault and you asked me not to call anymore
i won't beg you wanna be happy but don't include me in the heart
of tennessee an open road is like my empty home i'm not going
anywhere i've seen you walk away ten thousand times before you
ignored me but when you're gone and i'm still hanging on i won't
go and i won't beg
jessica
i lost the girl she walked out and i'd hang on so long i (she)
guess(ed) she won but who's counting i lost my job i got laid
off so i called my mom she said it would work out just pay her
back well i'm so in debt i went to the bar i needed to think
i needed to ease my spirits so simon poured me a drink and i
took that sprit and i poured it down my neck i'm in love with
the idea of being in love jessica without a clue you broke me
in two where are you when i need you where were you when i needed
you do what you need to do because in the end you know it comes
back to haunt you i need you i'm low on funds i'm low on friends
all because i'm a drunk and the days roll on and you moved on
and i pour on you turned me on you turned me out and then i
found out what you're about you told me lies that i'm not gonna
fight for all the reasons i was right so so long
nervous wreck
i met this little girl at dan's diner one weekend she was making
hand gestures about sexual favors for a friend although i didn't
know at the time i thought she was older maybe one day she'd
end up my dead end lover so i spent several years playing goddess
to a king wondering all the while was true love just a dream
and although i didn't know at the time my heart would grow colder
and maybe one day this rock in my chest would find a home amanda
harris you don't wanna be with me despite all the things that
i told friends i was nervous wreck around you if i sold my soul
for you would that be wrong to do for one night with you so
i spent countless wasted nights in muddy waters drinking whiskey
wondering all the while would you ever be with me and although
i drank enough to make an old mule choke i was wasted aching
for days stumbling around east dallas in a foggy haze i've been
looking to tarots been asking bloody mary i've been reading
the signs outside in the skies for god's advice maybe selling
my soul will keep me from feeling low i've been down on my knees
asking why
so slow
sometimes i wanna get so drunk that i can't see the light sometimes
i face confrontation but i never put up the fight but i know
the road don't go so slow you ask me why i'm swimming in this
sin i'll tell you what gets under my skin to live a healthy
life you have to work from nine to five then you pray that you're
alive and you do it again i wish that it was nineteen ninety
three when ignorance was just simplicity i had morals i had
friends i was petrified of sin and true love was a possibility
so don't tell me what to do its been five long years since i've
been loving you futile philosophy is all wrong humility will
get you when you're gone i try to do what is right but we get
drunk every night just justifying life with these songs
still waitin'
it was raining as i woke up i needed some time i needed some
room and still i'm still here i'm still waiting for a change
and what if something happened would we sit still and nothing
moves anymore we don't talk no more you never liked me anyway
so i'm stuck in well (holland) well in well nothing ever moves
don't you wanna be surprised deep in the southern netherlands
just an hour south of amsterdam fall rains gently flood the
streets my cigarette finally breaks so i lay on the maas' river
banks storms went away believe in love believe in me i never
knew just what i had and my friend four you told me that well
i need you back the vink (the local bar) moaned as i walked
by my eyes burned from the smoke and lights femke (the owner's
hot daughter) frowned as i walked in said i forgot her again
stormy night
the sun sets behind dark clouds and a cold chill fills my empty
chest i'm geared for another cold winter alone take me home
stormy night snow falls atop the falling leaves as i walk deserted
streets with december you left and brought the freezing somewhere
long ago you remembered me take down your lights the season
is changing pick up an old ramblin' soul like me go on drop
me off at some old dive take me home stormy night true love's
dream died with you leaving hoping for the best meant expecting
worse i now crawl these streets that we used to stroll never
knew what i could lose take down those lights the season is
changing leave and old ramblin' soul alone you'll find me fighting
flies at some old dive take me home stormy night
swashbuckler, tx.
i know i promised you i'd stay but i just got that phone call
i've been waiting for today saturday i'm leaving i'm going to
l.a. wish me luck and i'll be back someday i'm getting out of
this town no reason to settle down gonna leave for fifteen weeks
today i know you want me to live long starving just might make
me strong understand god made these hands to play don't tell
me about a career i had one for a year and i know i don't wanna
make that two maybe when i get a wife but right now i'm living
life my decisions are not affecting you so long mom wish me
good luck dad won't you gas up my truck i'm leaving town for
fifteen weeks today maybe next time you see me i'll be on the
cmt wish me luck and i'll be back someday
