1. |
Better Way to Fly
03:46
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Flying like an eagle down on 65
You were higher than the mountain
Just lucky to be alive
You knew where you were headed
But not where you came from
Said goodbye to your family
And away you did run
You had the whole world in your hands
When you were 17
But you thought the world was over
When she wouldn’t take your ring
So you took to the needle
And the powder in your nose
There’s a million sad songs in the world
On how this story goes
So leave the cocaine for the pillfers
And the codeine for anyone who’ll try
And all those people
They’re not your real friends
They’re all sitting around waitin on a better way to fly
Well it’s lonely on the mountain
And cold down through the hills
And you hate the thought of slavin’
Just to try to pay your bills
So use whatever you can find
To try to ease your soul
You don’t hate the thought of workin
But the thought of growin old
Well you know your mama prays for you
For what it might be worth
And you dream of greener pastures
And a heart that doesn’t hurt
As you take another hit to skip a trip around the sun
You believe with all your power
That you’re the only one
Leave the cocaine for the pillfers
And the codeine for anyone who’ll try
And all those people
They’re not your real friends
They’re all sitting around waitin on a better way to fly
You held onto a job
For however long it took
To get a piece of paper
They’d cut you from their book
Then you’d make a beeline
To a fella outta town
Take it back to your place
And get strung out on the ground
Many hard times later
You finally caught a breath
On the floor butt naked
Stoned out half to death
As you came to on a gurney
They said boy what did you do
You said heaven sent an angel
And that angel looks like you
In a greasy old apartment
You popped your last balloon
Thinking over all the things that have been done to you
Boy you’re so damn selfish
Now can’t you see at all?
That you’re not the only one who hurt
We had to watch you fall
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2. |
The Fall
03:21
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When the sky falls down
On this Indiana soil
Will you stand right with me
Or will you run for your own life
When theres no chance for redemption
And we've shook this mortal toil
Ill be around, taking what I have created
With a smile
Stay with me
When you’ve got nowhere to go
No more hateful songs to sing
On this road that never ends
You’re so sick of the world
And all that it inhabits
You take all that you need
And leave the rest all to yourself
If you weren't chasing promises
From all the fools before me
We could be, living in eden
That you speak of oh so well
Here I stand
Im wounded and Im ready
Take me as you please
Or leave me lonely here to die
You aint much a dove
But im mourning for your beauty
Im thinking of the right words
But theyve got me at the stake
The present’s got no time to give
Were jumping now or never
Take me by the collar pull me down
‘Fore its too late
Wont you take me with you
I can bear your load this journey
Save me while im wilting
‘Fore I die away with fall
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3. |
Mama
04:49
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Mama protect me, I’m going to far
I ain’t got a hope or gas in my car
And I won’t be home soon, if I’m ever home at all
You can tell Pa I’m sorry for what I’ve become
I never meant to hurt you or ever anyone
But now I must face to the facts that I’ve caused just tryin to make it outside of the law
I got more guts than brains you used to say
But the heart that you spoke of has gone away with the men that I’ve sent to lay in the ground and the ones that I will, who now hunt me down
Mama pray for me if you are inclined, cause God’s just a curse - we ain’t talked in a while
But tonight as I walk by the light of the moon, I’ll be looking for him, thinking about you
They say I’m a sinner, that I’m headed for hell, but with the chill of this holler, it’s too soon to tell if I’m already where they say I’m goin yet
But I can’t slow down the way I must race for the man on the tv keeps ‘a showin my face as a murderin outlaw on the run on down the line
Mama I’m coming home late, wait up for me
I’ll be in your arms in the morning or hanging from a tree
But I have no fear left in my bones
This is my final fight
Mama I’m coming home
Hold up in some old moonshiner’s shack with a gun in my hand and a wall to my back
They got lights flashing round me
Mama I’m weary and tired
They got me cornered, they got me for dead, but I can’t let it happen that way
Got an empty round left in my pistol
Mama I’m going away
Remember me healthy, remember be kind
And I hope I will see you there after a while
But please take your time mama I’m coming to me
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4. |
Weight of it All
05:03
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I wish it were easy
And I wish that I knew
Just how it would be
To only think of you
And I wish you could find it
Deep down in your heart
A way to not tear me and my heart all apart
And it just might be hopeless
But i'm up to the wall
This circumstance is choking me
And I tried not to fall
Whoever needs not to know
They won't know at all
That I’m out of my mind
With the weight of it all
I've always been one
To push it away
In hopes that an angel
Would carry me away
But you’re just a woman
And I’m just a man
Who now wont wait around for things that i don't understand
And it just might be hopeless
But i'm up to the wall
This circumstance is choking me
And I tried not to fall
Whoever needs not to know
They won't know at all
That i'm out of my mind
With the weight of it all
There’s no need to fight it
Encrypt it or hide it
Cause I’ve just decided
To write you a song
And if you are feeling
Anything like i do
I need not to say that I’m feeling it too
And it just might be hopeless
But i'm up to the wall
This circumstance is choking me
And I tried not to fall
Whoever needs not to know
They won't know at all
That i'm out of my mind
With the weight of it all
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5. |
Devil Calling
03:23
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Little sister don’t you cry anymore
The worlds less mean the wolves have left your door
I’m sorry that I didn’t get here sooner but here I am
I should have seen the signs and read your face
But here we are together now in this place
I wear stripes and you wear a grin
You got our mamas eyes that I’ll never see again
You called me that night and you were crying
When you said he’d been up to more than lying
When I saw your tears and how they’re falling
I knew right then it was the devil calling
I checked every bar in this county
And I called every friend of his I know
But I knew the route he’d take to get back to you
The shakes were setting in with five miles to go
I met him at the bottom of bakers hollow
He wrecked into my car that blocked the road
I drug that drunken bastard to an oak tree
I tied him up and I cut his throat
You called me that night and you were crying
When you said he’d been up to more than lying
When I saw your tears and how they’re falling
I knew right then it was the devil calling
I knew right then it was the devil calling
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6. |
Angel on the Line
03:24
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In an old dusty factory, I saw you there
Hiding your blue eyes and your long blonde hair
Behind a frown with pain on your face
To let us all know how much you hate that place
At first I didn’t talk to you I was scared it must seem
Of the beauty who’d make up the most of my dreams
You were the prettiest bluebird never to sing
Next to all us cockroaches and the loud, fast machines
You had beauty, you had grace
But you couldn’t tell by your face
With a factory frown and a cigarette for show
You were an angel on the line
Home from college, working nights
You were too good you were too smart
For this job
But you weren’t for me
Now I didn’t smoke when you went out for a light
I’d stand in your fumes just to be by your side
First time I seen you smile was when I brought you a pack
I coughed out my lungs while you stood back and laughed
You told me all the stories of the college town nights
All the parties and drinking and the big city lights
And I did my best to show you life on a farm
Hunting and fishing and the straw bell cut arms
You had beauty, you had grace
But you couldn’t tell by your face
With the factory frown and a cigarette for show
You were an angel on the line
Home from college, working nights
You were too good you were too smart
For this job
But you weren’t for me
June went by too fast and July flew by
You were counting down days and I was saving up nights
When the school year did come around you came up to me
Hiding tears in my eyes you put a peck on my cheek
Now my job still sucks and you’re still long gone
Factories still dusty and the nights are still long
Hope all’s well with you causeI’m here doing fine
Day dreaming of working by an angel down the line
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7. |
Alone Here With You
03:37
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That ring on your finger it tears you apart
And you tell me each day that I’m breaking your heart
And I know that I’ll never be anywhere good enough for you
And I just can't keep wasting my time alone here with you
That ring on your finger
Is like lies on a tongue
And the sunset don't look
Like it did when you were young
And the smell of the morning
Makes you think Lord
What did I do
And I just can't keep wasting my time
Alone here with you
Why don't you pack up, hit the road, and never
come home
I would but the house is paid off and I’m too damn broke for a loan
If you would quit talking me down we maybe could work something out
Till then I’ll be down in the basement I’m tired of you
That ring on your finger
Was a year of my life
Chopping up firewood
To make you my wife
Your friends said I was cheap
But I was broke
It was all I could do
And I can’t wait to start my life over
Anywhere without you
I got my hand on a shovel and a yard perfect green
I'm headed to town for a bag of grass seed
If you don’t quit your bitchin
Before I get back from town
I’ll put all our problems
Deep under the ground
That ring on your finger
It’s covered in dirt
The suns coming up
I gotta get back to work
And go sleep in my bed
For the first time since I said I do
And I’ll live out the rest of my life
Alone here with you
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8. |
Lost Love and Home
04:44
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You remind me of a sunrise
Back home in Indiana
Where the rains fall slow
And the lightning bugs
All chase us to our beds
Can you hear that old whippoorwill
His song sounds like a warning
Of the darkness that lies before us
And the devil down below
And the rains they fall in the springtime
They say for flowers to grow
But we don’t need flowers as we count the hours
And sit back and watch them all grow
Do you remember the time that I told you
How I’d always love you the same
As the time we spent by the river
Skipping creek rocks in the clay
Well the water it flows over limestone
Like a song that we once knew
Well darlin I can’t hear, the ripples near
I can only listen to you
And the summer brings the sunshine
To bake all the hayfields dry
And I don’t need farming with you in my arms
As we listen to that old river cry
As the days got cool and the nights got long
We knew the end must be near
When you’d go to school, and I’d find a job
And we’d never end up back here
And the times got hard and the world got mean
And the days couldn’t pass any slower
My love for you didn’t change a thing
It just got a little older
And the leaves they fall in the autumn
And blow along the ground in the wind
As you got smarter my old heart got harder
From the cold dark places it’s been
Now the days fly by like the snow geese
Too far to reach from the ground
The nights are long and dark and they cut the days apart
Without a chance of ever getting out
Do you ever dream of the river
The muddy banks and the old shale rock
I hope you can take it and make as you please
And you’re happy with whatever you’ve got
And the snow it falls in the winter time
And they close down all of the roads
I dream of the sunrise in old Indiana
One million miles from my home
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