- 3 Dimes Down
It was a straight shot
All it took was luck to not get caught
I laid three dimes down and the machine wanted 25 cents
In the back seat her and a friend,
one out the window and the other on the other end
One belt loop away from Sunday night's news
If the part about being who he was didn't help Tom get loose,
- A Ghost To Most
I guess I'll never grow a side-burn
It's a shame with all I've got to go between
I hope somebody's cause takes soon
It's getting hard to find a place a root can sink
Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice
Thanks to her I can think clear enough,
To be thankful that she died before tonight
Saving everybody takes a man on a mission
- Aftermath USA
When I crawled out of bed this morning
I could tell something wasn't right
There were cigarettes in the ashtrays
They weren't your menthol lights
There were beer bottles in the kitchen
And broken glass on the floor
Someone must have slipped me something
Passed out a couple days before
- Birmingham
Economics shut the furnace down
Bull Connor hosing children down
George Wallace stared them Yankee's down
In Birmingham
Take a left on the interstate
In the middle of this sultry state
I can't wait to see your face
- Box of Spiders
Gran Gran keeps a box of spiders.
She says they're on me when I sleep.
Waiting in the out-house for me.
Underneath the seat.
My great-grandmothers bout ninety-seven
And she is sure when she gets to heaven,
Old St. Peter's gonna throw his arms around her and say
'I've waited so long for us to meet'.
- Bulldozers and Dirt
I met your mama when I was sixteen
You couldn't have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing y'all's color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
She was the wildest thing I'd ever seen
The way she pointed that shotgun at me
The police hauled my ass off to jail
- Cassie's Brother
Can my brother sit in?
Can my brother sit in?
Well there's a hole in the band and
As a favor to Cassie
We'll let her brother come and jam.
If he ain't no good,
We'll just leave him right out of the mix.
- Cottonseed
I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds
Look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes
Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes, it's true
Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze
It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes
And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong
- Daddy Needs a Drink
Daddy needs a drink to deal with all the beauty;
to deal with all the madness, to keep from blowing up.
Daddy needs a drink to calm down his badness;
to execute his gladness on the fullness of his cup.
Daddy needs a drink to keep the wheels from rubbing;
to compensate for nothing or nothing going on.
Daddy needs a drink, so Mama fix one quick.
- Darkened Flags At The Cusp of Dawn
The darkest nights we look upon
They smolder on the lawn
What we smite and bathe in light
And where we crawl out from
Draw the blood, accept the stain
Everyone looks upon
Darkened flags on the cusp of dawn
- Everybody Needs Love
Moon beams we can dream on, at the setting of the sun
And the stars we can wish upon, when the working man is done
Sunsets we could cry over, have our trouble's on the run
But more than these miracles above, good people, we need love
Everybody needs the love, love, love
Everybody needs the love, love, love
Everybody needs the love, love, love
- First Air of Autumn
First air of autumn up your nose
popcorn, heavy hairspray, nylon pantyhose
please stand and bow your heads and pray you don’t get old
The nurture and the admonition of your kind
the rules of only strong survive
Cross shaped swimming pools,
down in the blood and lifted up
- Goddamn Lonely Love
I got green and I got blues
And everyday there's a little less difference between the two.
So I belly-up and disappear.
Well I ain't really drowning 'cause I see the beach from here.
I could take a Greyhound home but when I got there it'd be gone
Along with everything a home is made up of.
So I'll take two of what you're having and I'll take all of what you got
- Heathens
Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
If we get the van out of the ditch before morning ain't nobody got to know what I done
And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
And I don't need to be forgiven by them people in the neighborhood
When we first hooked up, you looked me in the eye
And said Paw, we just ain't no good.
- Hell No, I Ain't Happy
There's a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer
She's an overnight sensation after twenty five years
Sharp fast curves, power steering
Unroll that twenty, buy me some beer
Ain't too bad, too bad at all, pick up the phone if I ever call
Hell no, I ain't happy.
There's a pretty little girl outside the van window
- Life In The Factory
Let me tell ya'll a story
So far fetched it must be true
Bout a bunch of fatherless boys from Florida and a boy who was man enough for two.
Practiced twelve hours a day in the Hell House
In the swamps out side of town.
100 degrees without no open windows
Heat radiating off the tin.
- Lisa's Birthday
It's always Lisa's birthday when I get that call
She's got no money for a cab she's way to drunk to walk
Lisa's had more birthdays than there are sad country songs
About trying to love two women and only taking one girl home
It's a good thing that her dancing shoes don't run on gasoline
She could dry up Texas in one night the way she feels that beat
If I don't find them under the bed we make love on,
- Lookout Mountain
If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more for my soul to keep
I wonder who will drive my car
I wonder if my Mom will weep
If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more pain my soul to bare
No more worries about paying taxes
- Plastic Flowers On The Highway
He was ready for the big trip, he was moving to the city; he had packed his prize possessions and gave away the rest. He was almost doing ninety, the sky was blue, sun was shining. All the shit, he left behind for the big world waiting there. He was almost out of Leighton, when that phone truck didn't see him. Hit the brake and slided sideways, he never had a chance.
Plastic flowers on the highway. Bits of glass for the machine to sweep away.
Had to pass it on my way to where I'z going. For the next few minutes, I drove a little slower.
Them, M.A.D.D. mothers couldn't help him. He was sober, it was Sunday. He was full of good home cooking when he crashed the savior's door.
Plastic flowers on the highway. A greasy spot on the asphalt for a while.
- Sandwiches for the Road
All packed to go, baloney and mayonnaise sandwiches for the road
Lay them out across the dash in the August sun
And if they turn green don't be afraid
Nothing can hurt you but yourself
Nothing can hurt you but yourself
I been given to visions from time to time (Mighty fields of vision)
And the voice in my brain can be a little unkind sometimes
- Sounds Better in the Song
When I saw her standing there, with her bright eyes and shining hair
She was looking back at me
Some are meant to sing, some are meant to talk and some aren't meant to say a thing
But when she opened up her mouth and that sweet voice came out
I lost track of my own name
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Now she's found herself, and I lost mine
- The Home Front
The hours creep across the face
As she paces across the floor
She can't even get to sleep since Tony went to war
She feels bitch-slapped and abandoned
By a world she thought she knew
Cold beyond comprehension as their little girl turns two
Now they're saying on the flat screen
- The sands of Iwo Jima
George A. was at the movies in December '41
They announced it in the lobby what had just gone on
He drove up from Birmingham back to the family's farm
Thought he'd get him a deferment there's was much work to be done
He was a family man, even in those days
But Uncle Sam decided he was needed anyway
In the South Pacific over half a world away
He believed in God and Country, things was just that way
- Three Dimes Down
It was a straight shot
All it took was luck to not get caught
I laid three dimes down and the machine wanted 25 cents
In the back seat her and a friend,
One out the window and the other on the other end
One belt loop away from Sunday night's news
If the part about being who he was didn't help Tom get loose,
- Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
When he raised the gates of Heaven,
He didn't understand.
And near the friends were coming over.
Was it all a dream?
Was it all a crazy dream?
Saw them playing there before him,
What were they doin' there?
- Wife Beater
You met him at the dance hall
You only saw his charms
You said he really swept you off your feet
Then one night he's drinking
And jealousy enraged
He knocked out two of your front teeth
So you came over to hide out at my place
- You and Your Crystal Meth
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You've become such a mess
You and your crystal meth
You lost your family - wrecked your truck.
I used to love you - now you suck