Well I'm so tired of driving but here comes the highway Don't wanna go cold turkey Ride with me Jesus so high on the mainline It's the last time I'll drive Death Valley Remember her kiss is like kerosene The rest of her only a memory Don't feel so bad 'cause you made me A picture so clear A picture so clear that it's crystalline Better run to the doctor, girl, run to the medicine Don't wanna go cold turkey I'll be your Napoleon be your crippled Alexander, but Don't wanna go up the country Shame there's nothing to hang it on Except for this wreck that you made of me A blackbird singin' a morning song, sing along Sing to the end of a century Sing it Well I can't stand the thought of many more miles, but I don't wanna go cold turkey Here comes the highway can't you see what it made me It's the last time I'll drive Death Valley Remember her kiss is a kerosene The exile lives in a memory A scarecrow singin' a morning song, sing along Sing to the end of a century Are you still with me Jesus so high on the mainline Don't let me go up the country Girl better run, better run for the medicine Don't let me go cold turkey Don't let me go cold turkey Don't wanna go
Crickets are chirpin', the water is high, There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry, Window wide open, African trees Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze. Not a word of goodbye, note even a note, She gone with the man In the long black coat.
Somebody seen him hanging around At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town, He looked into her eyes when she stopped to ask If he wanted to dance, he had a face like a mask. Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote There was dust on the man In the long black coat.
Preacher was a talkin' there's a sermon he gave, He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved, You cannot depend on it to be your guide When it's you who must keep it satisfied. It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat, She gave her heart to the man In the long black coat.
There are no mistakes in life some people say It is true sometimes you can see it that way. Bridge: But people don't live or die, people just float. She went with the man In the long black coat.
There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June, Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force Somebody is out there beating the dead horse. She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote, She gone with the man In the long black coat.
Your voice is a mockingbird Calling me when the day is gone You please yourself with every word Telling me where I'm going wrong Telling me where I've gone wrong
Get me out it's starting to burn I can't let go for the life of me Some hold tight, and some turn Another fire out in front of me My whole life out in front of me
You can't kill what's already dead But I don't blame you for trying it The sun comes up and falls away Two little birds makin' sense of it Two mockingbirds making sense of it
You hear them call your name From your room Far removed Don't let 'em use you in, every way Stay unchained Around and round you go They'll never know, what you've seen Why have you turned away You can believe, believe in me Couldn't you try one time See if they'll run, for a while It's a solitary star Shining precious light Light on me When I see your eyes Tell me what you find But I oughtta know, by now Did you hear them call your name From your room Far removed I'd only use you in, every way Stay unchained It's a solitary star Shining precious light Light on me
Water will forgive me, I'm just tryin' to forget Starin' at the water as the waves turn ruby red Remembering Fear and paranoia run together in my dreams Water will accept me give me a peace I've never seen Remembering Wrap your arms around me And I'm as light as anything Through the air I can't breathe Your lips form a curious smile Water will forgive me for everything I never should Water will accept me for all the things I never could Wrap your arms around me And I'm as light as anything Through the air I can't breathe
I feel your blood run cold And it's a rainy Sunday morning I count the million miles I'm driftin' From here, to hell Today
Behind their windows people stare Can't recognize the kindness there Just prayers for drownin' ships at sea None for me And you
It'll take a hard rain to wash your taste away Still I wish there was a reason left to stay
I'm drunk half blind And it's an ugly Sunday morning The wind arrives with the clouds refusing to break Apart, like me Why if all the world's stopped turnin' How can all this rain keep fallin' Washin' me a million miles away From you
Why if I'm so alone now Is it getting hard, to say goodbye now Goodbye now
Baby, you're goin' down in the dark Show my lonely night is fallin' I don't have very long I think my blood might boil Then my veins might burn And you're gonna make it better for a little while
Baby, you're gonna die someday See you when you're crawlin', wasted Then you'll start to fade That won't be so I'm sinkin' faster I wouldn't wait so long It won't get any easier in the dark
Oh yeah You will You will You will You will You will
Baby, you're goin' down in the dark Think my lonely night is fallin' I don't have very long Think my blood might boil And then my veins might burn And you're gonna make it better for a little while
See through the eyes of a child And it won't be real Eyes neither hateful or cruel No lies conceal Eyes that wander, eyes that strayed While the shame in your heart Remains
Cryin' were the eyes of a child In pain, tonight Tears that I bled on you From the heart of an angel of fear, tonight We can wander, we could stray But the shame remains
See through the eyes of a child And it won't be real I have loved your eyes Neither hateful or cruel No lies conceal We could wander, we could stray But the shame, has remained Has remained It has remained
Saw God staring from the wall I was alone and lost Here to take me from this world Still alone and lost
Night when the dogs from hell come out Roam my house in chains of gold The darkness dares my eyes to close
Saw a ghost in the shadows smile I was sick in my soul All tied up in a winding sheet Still sick in my soul
Night when the dogs from hell come out Roam my house in chains of gold The darkness dares my eyes to close
With the setting sun With the setting sun With the setting sun
Tired I lay me back on thorns Full of fear in my head Lay me back so I could not rise Full of fear in my head
Night when the dogs from hell come out Roam my house in chains of gold The darkness dares my eyes to close With the setting sun rose with the setting sun
With the setting sun The night is born, my time has come With the setting sun With the setting sun
Jesus touch my hand Please touch my hand Please touch my hand With the setting sun
We got some poison in us Cyanide and nicotine More than you've ever seen More than I can believe Woe, woe, woe, woe
Guns guns they all got guns Now they want to shoot someone I'd rather be drunk than dead Or go where Jesus fled So I'll get drunk again Or maybe not Woe, woe, woe, woe
I saw on a tombstone He came in this world alone Spent all his time alone He left this life alone Woe, woe, woe, woe
I see they're comin' Just tell me it ain't true How lonely sorrow, and I fall back to you One time or another Like I want
She is alone, and I don't walk that tall Memories amounting, to nothin' I can't keep Just as soon forgotten Hate is all, that her tears ever show Saying sing, well come on black cat sing
Hate is gone, drippin' lies from the tongue Demanding my all, well I don't walk that tall
I see they're comin' Just tell me it ain't true Head down in sorrow and I, stumble back to you One time or another You might find Hate is all, that her tears ever show Sayin' sing, well come on black cat sing I don't walk that tall I don't walk that tall
Night train is groovy An orange jubilee Feels good comin' and goin' I'm warm all over me
Fire up the crack boys And tie off my arm Cinch up my diaper Turn the TV on Give me another blow job Before I'm on the nod Say you'll always love me and Never do me harm Never do me harm Never do me harm
Well you're a preacher's daughter And I'm a bastard's son...
Love you little girl Better than I love my Better than I love myself Want you and me Forever, ever and ever Just so far from home Just so far from home
Love you little girl Better than I love my Better than I love myself Want you and me Forever, ever and ever Just so far from home Just so far from home Love you little girl (4x's)
Oh, the river rise and it's a mile high Is this worth tryin'? Is this worth tryin'? 'Cause I could fall like a tear Well, there's nothing else I can do
When I'm not alone nothing's beside me What one eye sees, the other's blind in Well, I could fall, as if I was young With a lifetime to think of you
Fire one for losing and two for hiding Keep river moving, movin' right by me I could fall And there's nothin' else I can do
Ah, the river rise and it's a mile high Has this world turned? Has this world tried? 'Cause I could fall like a tear Well, there's nothin' else I can do
Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh Trouble comes in slowly A neverlasting light come to shine all over me Bright in the mornin' Like all of heaven's love come to shine on me And to you who never need Fuck yourselves, I need some more room to breathe
Here comes the devil, prowl around One whiskey for evey ghost And I'm sorry for what I've done 'Cause it's me who knows what it cost
It breaks and it breathes, and it tears you apart It bites and it bleeds And this desert turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, prowl around One whiskey for every ghost And I'm sorry for what I said I said I just don't care anymore
A fool can feed on the notion Sees and believes And this desert turns to ocean over me
Trouble comes in slowly A neverlasting light come to shine all over me At the dead end to mornin' darlin' With all of heaven's love come to shine on me
The fool that feeds on the notion Sees and believes And this desert turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, buy the round One whiskey for every ghost And I'm sorry for what I done Lord it's me who knows what it costs
The fool that feeds on the notion Sees and believes And this desert turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, prowlin' round One whiskey for every ghost And I'm sorry for what I said I said I just don't care anymore It breaks and it breathes and it tears you apart Gonna bite, gonna bleed 'Til this desert turns to ocean over me
Here ya are, at the top of the tower Could a body take that much Alone through every waking hour Asleep without nobody to touch
Whoa,whoa,whoa,and Only silence here Whoa,whoa,whoa,and Lonely silence here And I'm not the one Make your house a home Makes no sense to stay Through one more lonely last day Oh no babe, it's not right
Here ya are, cryin' in the night Could a body take that much Find yourself standin' outside You ain't got nobody to touch
Whoa, whoa, whoa, and There's only silence here Whoa,whoa,whoa, and There's only silence here And I'm not the one make your house a home Makes no sense to stay Through one more lonely last day Oh no babe, it's not right
Are those halos in your hair Or diamonds shining there Without a hope, without a prayer This rain beats down like death You turn your eyes to better men Before I go I'll hang in a cross on nails I hung on for you in there
Girl lay your shame to rest Hope lies close to your breast You stoop to feed the crows Some scraps of truth already cold Before I go, I'll hang in a cross on nails I hung on for you in there And every kingdom of rain comes fallin' down 'Cause I loved you somewhat 'Cause I loved you somewhat
Would you put halos in your hair Without a hope without a prayer With lies close to your breast You finally lay your shame to rest Before I go, I'll hang in a cross on nails I hung on for you in there And every kingdom of rain comes fallin' down 'Cause I loved you so long 'Cause I loved you so long 'Cause I loved you so long
Where in the world have you been It's as strange as I've ever lived So you're comin' along to the sideshow I'll be fallin' all over like dominos For girls are sad in their eyes They're all standin' around bein' hypnotised And walkin' me back to the firin' line Ya smile to get in the door Ya can't keep it closed anymore Tell your ma that you're gone to the freakshow I'm crawlin' all over the carnival Just scratchin' a stitch in a skin I'm moanin' for more of the medicine In the mornin' you're wonderin' where ya been Just turnin' your back to the ghost And tryin' to look like you just might know That all of the good that you've seen Just went down and into the drain Oh kids am I straight out for now In the mornin' I'm gonna find it on out What in the world can it be It's as strange as I've ever seen The girls are dead in their eyes Just standin' around like they're hypnotised Who'll follow me back to the freak show I'm crawlin' all over the carnival And I am gone The kid's in a straight out for now In the mornin' I'm want to find it on out What in the world can it be It's as strange as I've ever seen The girls are dead in their eyes Just standin' around like they're hypnotised Who'll follow me back to the freak show I'm crawlin' all over the carnival And I am gone
