other songs, 1992-2010
well they dispatched us late
we were waitin' on trailers
that never came in through the snow
so we rolled like a line of white
buffalo down
to the stoplight and waited to go
well I backed in the dock
at my first stop a wood shop
and the wind stole the warmth from my face
forty damn boxes
right down the center aisle
at least now they're out of my way
CHORUS
here's your shit
sign my scanner
yeah, I know it looks upside down
but I been drivin' all day
and them pickups won't wait
and my baby's not long for this town
well you told me you'd stay
if I quit my deliv'rin'
but I knew that I never could
'cause it gets in your soul
and under your fingernails
wrecks your back and leaves you no good
but i'll blow thru my rezzies
ahead of the plowman
and i'll bust up them driveways alone
and alone's how i'll be
when the boxes're gone and i'm
headin' back in through the snow
CHORUS
tonight i know that you don't love me
yesterday you found somebody new
today you told me that it's over
and tomorrow i'll be lonely sad and blue
i thought the love we had could stand a thousand hurricanes
but you had leavin' in your eye
when winter came around i thought that you would keep me warm
but this house is even colder than your last goodbye
repeat chorus
each night i sit at home and wish that you were here with me
drink a toast to livin' on my own
i'll sing out a jukebox full of lonely leavin' songs
put out the porch light now i'm all alone
repeat chorus
you're slow to rise
and i know it ain't 'cause you've been lovin' me
ain't no surprise
you're not as young as you pretend to be
but i've seen it all before
what's a dusty cowboy to an aging whore?
the coffee's on
you start another can of straight cut skoal
you'll soon be gone
six hundred miles another rodeo
ten hours behind the wheel
they'll pull that gate for you in laramie
eight second lives eight seconds later
one more bull rider who ain't ever gonna die
eight second lives eight seconds later
don't get no wiser and it ain't clear we even try
eight second lives eight seconds later
down in the chutes
you drawed up bad but you'll ride anyway
good enough for you
this ol' bullridin's still the only way
ain't got a thing to prove
sad old bull's about as tired as you
(chorus)
you're slow to rise
and i know it ain't 'cause you've been lovin' me
sinclair station stands on its own
the pumps are dry; the winds have blown
cars rush by out across the dusty plains
but the 2–lane sits; just the yellow lilne remains
the highway cam into this land
maybe twenty–five years ago; there was nothin' standin'
now the neon lights are all on the north side of town
holiday inn, howard johnson, burger king, burger town
take 26 from 66 and it's
i–40
but there's more than just the number on the sign
when you're just another offramp
on another interstate
another tiny dot upon the long red line
last night i borrowed the keys to my daddy's old blue chevy
took it out for a drive; you know the night was hangin' heavy
went to the drive-through, got some fast food to go
but if you want a good burger, man, you gotta take it slow
well i drove that pickup truck down the dusty county road
till i fould old 66 lookin' tired and empty and old
i turned off the engine and i turned off the lights
and i just sat there thinkin' as the day turned into night
(chorus)
a long time a go you could take that road
you could follow it down to shaky town
and every neon sign was the mark and the line of another man
and patsy cline would fall to pieces and the desert sun would shine
and you'd stop and put the top down on the mercury
(chorus)
no one here remembers why she left him
he just sits and cries his heart out every day
he don't want to change
he don't want to start again
so we just watch him slowly fade away
it's been so long that he can't hide his sorrow
the hurtin' pours out from his sad blue eyes
the wine don't ease his pain
no the pain remains the same
his empty heart just echoes her goodbyes
he's old blue
and he's still grievin'
still believin' in a love that's dead and gone
he's old blue
and he ain't leavin'
till she comes and takes his hand and ends his sorrow
maybe tomorrow
i have sinned against my god and the one who's loved me only for so long
and i know that there are weaker men than me who've found the courage to be strong
she understands how shame could drive me crazy and for that i love her so
i've betrayed her love a thousand times and still my wife's the only one who knows
it was never my intention to become the faithless man you see today
but i could not make the longing for those other arms just stop and go away
she understands i stay because i need her and for that i love her so
and for sad and lonely reasons of her own my wife's the only one who knows
she knows i'll spend tomorrow in the arms of someone she will never know
who leads me through the darkness in my soul where she and i could never go
i had hoped i'd find a way somehow to end this shameful double life i lead
but now i've come to realize that ending it would kill a part of me
she understands it has to be this way and for that i love her so
i still can't believe that after all this time my wife's the only one who knows
woke up this mornin'
another lover by my side
didn't know what i was doin'
didn't know if i'd been taken for a ride
but all at once i had this vision in my head
i could love these nowhere cowboys every night
until i'm dead
(so i)
found me a highway
nothin' but the wind for company
i left that cowboy lyin'
'cause gone's the only place i like to be
and i've been thinkin' about the things that i done wrong
livin' my life just like the words
of a sad old country song
cold river wash these sins from my soul
take me back to where the secret waters flow
find me a hideaway where i can always go
cold river wash these sins
from my soul
and the night won't find me sleepin'
all my stories turn to lies
need a way to stop believin'
my alibis
now i been ridin'
across this broken land of doubt and dreams
straight through the darkness
mornin' sun come shine a light on me
now i don't know if that makes me right or makes me wrong
and i don't know if that makes me weak or makes me strong
ooh but i just might run the answer down
here before too long
(chorus)
in a hotel bar alone
and a long long way from home
i know he's got a woman at home a-waitin'
he's on the phone to her in bed
and then the wall against his head
she'll be hatin' me when the sun comes up tomorrow
well i sit here on this stool
as he makes his way to courage
and then he makes his way to me and he sits on down
then the fire lights his eyes
and his stories turn to lies
he'll be lovin' me when the sun comes up tomorrow
but it ain't him and it ain't me
it's just who we are tonight
in the lonesome and the glow of sweet red wine
and she's oh so far away
what makes him run will make him stay
and the lonesome and the wine will make him mine
(solo and chorus)
now i been on the run for years
watchin' mem'ries turn to tears
but lonesome's only lonesome when you're all alone
i won't rope you if you're tied
but if you're lookin' to cross that line
i'll be lovin' you when the sun comes up tomorrow
but it ain't you and it ain't me
it's just who we are tonight
in the lonesome and the glow of sweet red wine
and she's oh so far away
what makes you run will make you stay
and the lonesome and the wine will make you mine
weddin' bells were ringin'
on that morning back in may
and the rings were tied with ribbons
to a pillow edged with lace
oh but all the things they stood for
did not last the summer through
and all your love together
could not make those dreams come true
well tomorrow's good for workin'
and you're risin' with the sun
the boss don't want you pregnant
you just say what's done is done
and now your big wide world's come down to
just those shiny bands of gold
and the baby deep inside you
and a love grown cold
cold and old
that turned your promise into darkness
that turned your promise into darkness
as the walls close in around you
and the nights roll into years
you're wishin' for a love to stop the tears
wishin' for a love to stop the tears
now the night she's ripe with promises
just like your lover's tongue
but the morning finds you thinkin' 'bout
all the words unsaid and deeds undone
the sunrise fills the eastern sky
and the dew's still on the grass
but the fields are dry and turned to brown
like the dreams that fade
fade so fast
walkin' all night through the streets of houston
tryna find your house in the drizzlin' rain
hundred thousand miles from my front door
got a burnin' desire just to see you again
quarter in my pocket and if you're not there
i'm'a leave you a message from a pay telephone
well i might get crazy and call it love
i'm a fool for you baby and i'm all alone
i'm a fool for you baby
i'm a fool for you baby and that's a fact
i'm a fool for you baby
i'm a fool for you baby and i like it like that
once upon a time down deep in the winter
guess we'd been drinkin' just a bit too much
we closed the wooden nickel and you followed me home
well baby all it took was a look and a touch
don't misunderstand me now i know the game
'cause i played it for years with a thousand men
y'ain't supposed to think about 'em when you're done but
i'm a fool for you baby and i want you again
chorus
and if i find you with another lover
well you never said that you were free
oh and i wish that girl was me
walkin' all night through the streets of houston
tryna find your house in the rain again
still a hundred thousand miles from my front door
i'm a fool for you baby and i'm givin' in
chorus 2x
so you're hurtin'
swear you'll never love again
and you're thinkin'
your little world is at an end
you sit at home 'cause there's no place that you wanna go
well i know what it's like to be lonely
feelin' shot down inside
and hearts can break like promises
but everybody dreams baby
everybody dreams every night
everybody schemes baby
over and over till they get it right
when they turn out the light
everybody dreams
now there's a sadness
in this world i won't deny
and there's a meanness
sometimes i don't even wanna try
it feels like it doesn't do any kind of good at all
and i know what it's like to be beaten
down and made to cry
and hearts can break like promises
(chorus)
well i was lyin' face down in the dirt of the promised land
i was used and bruised and broken
on the night i made my stand
(solos)
now i know what it's like to believe
just look into these eyes
baby you don't need their promises
(chorus)
if you're feelin' lonely baby
that's a problem i can solve
you say you don't want me to hold you
and my restraint matches your resolve
but i'm determined to get inside
that cold cold head of yours
'cause i can still see somethin' shinin'
but you can't feel it anymore
i have traveled through time and space
just to find you alone like this
somethin' called me across the miles
a force i could not resist
set a course through the freezin' rain
and the wind blew me right to your door
'cause i can still see somethin' shinin'
but you can't feel it anymore
the demons that come in the night time
just for fun they pull you till you break
the sorrowful dragons you've drawn on your walls
the lovers you've burned at the stake
they're like promises baby you've broken
tryin' somehow to even the score
well i can still see somethin' shinin'
but you can't feel it anymore
ochre visions that cloud your horizons
terrible engines that roar in the night
taking love taking all of your future
well baby just let them go
baby let them collide and die
i swear a promise to you little heartbeat
tonight i make you this vow
don't give up on me baby
and i will find me a way somehow
you stand before me a broken man
but one day your faith you shall restore
'cause i can still see somethin' shinin'
but you can't feel it anymore
had me a man back in dallas
i was the only one he loved
told me he spent his nights a–worryin'
when i'd leave him all alone
ooh but just the thought of him thinkin' about me
well it was more than i could bear
he would have followed me around the world
i just left him standin' there
in my life there are fools and there are lovers
and in the darkness i can plainly see
there ain't nothin' like a man who wants to give you what you need
in my life the only fool is me
drove on out to california
spent the night in some motel
stranger's body curled up next to me
sleepin' hard and feelin' well
i told him that i had to leave before dawn
as if i had someplace to go
but there's a darkness in my heart and on my mind
that it would trouble him to know
(chorus)
well i'm gonna take a fast train
even faster than an aeroplane
don't want no milk train
no streetcar line
gonna rocket to my baby
you know it's drivin' me crazy
ain't talkin' 'bout maybe
no not this time
i'm in love with the sound of a steel wheel flyer
i'm in love makin' time like a prairie fire
and i did not think you'd ask me for my hand
and i did not think you'd want to be my man
well don't you know we got the high ball
a smokin'tumblin' waterfall
don't make no stops at all
we just move on through
hear that engine whistle sound
they know we're comin' for miles around
don't you know that we're glory bound
i'm coming home to you
(chorus)
and now we're rollin' through the high plains
the colorado rocky mountains
through the desert where it never rains
we pass the freight trains by
and the we run right by the highway
the california freeway
all the way to the frisco bay
just about suppertime
(chorus)