Chorus:

I found everything I lost

No more hoping with fingers crossed

Good Times have come my way

And they're here to stay

I found everything I lost 

Along the way 

I was a pilgrim on life's trail

I’ll tell you how hard I fell 

When the blues and the bottle took a hold of me

Devilish women tore up my mind

The world felt so unkind 

I thought I was meant for misery

For so long the struggle was real

I had to learn to wheel and deal

Life seemed so unfair to me

I leaned on the booze

Swore I was born to lose

But then I found myself and now I'm free

Chorus:

I knew I was a good person

So, I did some inward searching 

I held a mirror to the darkness in my soul

I learned how to heal myself

And put my wild ways on the shelf

Now I feel healed, and I feel whole

I got a good woman I don't need to roam

It's in her arms I found my home

All the pain of the past is a memory 

Lord knows I paid my dues

But I kicked those awful blues

And I found myself and now I’m free

Chorus

Last night I was complaining when my gal came walking in

She says "I see you're fiddling on the world's smallest violin"

I'm going to cry a river, I'm going to cry a river and then float away

She says woe is me, I say woe is true

She says "When I whoop your sorry hide, you'll be really singing the blues"

I'm going to cry a river, I'm going to cry a river and then float away

Bridge:

I'll go grab my paddle and float on down the line

Darling if you get blue come in the waters fine

And we'll go cry a river, and we’ll go cry a river and float away

My darling must think she's moses because she's been trying to part my sea

I've been drowning like Pharaohs army in my own misery

I'm going to cry a river, I'm going to cry a river and then float away

She swears up and down she loves me but every time I’m down

She starts talking about needing a man who’s planted on dry ground

I'm going to cry a river, I'm going to cry a river and float away

I could climb the tallest mountain or dive to the bottom of the deepest sea

But you better best believe the blues will follow ole Scott Lee

I'm going to cry a river I’m going to cry a river and float away

Bridge:

I'll go grab my paddle and float on down the line

Darling if you get blue come in the waters fine

And we'll go cry a river, we’ll go cry a river and float away

Spoken:

Well, if your river has flowed to the sea

That sea is going to end on land

It’s hard times here, but it’s better down the road my friend

I clock in, I clock out

Another day rolls around

I clock in, I clock out

This can’t be what life is all about

Doing back breaking labor

Being a number on a paper

Well, if I die

They wouldn’t even stop the line

Chorus:

Another day another dollar

And life keeps getting harder

For the hard-working blue-collar man

I get paid, I go broke

The bills keeping pilling up

I get paid, what a joke

It’s a rich man’s world and I’m losing hope

But I got a family to feed

So, if there’s overtime

I’ll be out on the line

Busting my ass for me and mine

Chorus:

Machines hum I’ve grown numb

It’s been a longtime since life seemed fun

Machines hum in my ear drums

My soul aches but I gotta move on

Like my father before me

I work in a factory, scrape by barely

And at night I hardly sleep

Chorus:

It’s the land of the free

And working folks are living in poverty

They say it’s made for you and me

But we’re divided on everything

While the rich are getting richer

It’s a pretty bleak picture

You work until you die

And fight just to survive

Chorus:

Baby you drive me crazy

You know just what to do

To get under my skin 

Oh yes, it's true

We poke, prod, and fight

Usually, you're the one that's right 

Oh, darling I can't help

But to love you

Chorus:

There's something in your smile

That drives me wild

Something in the way you move

That gets me in the groove 

Honey with you I never need a sign

There's something about you

That makes you mine.

My hides thickened from your pinching

I’m a stronger man now

I can deal with all life's troubles

I'll tell you how

Nothing can defeat me

Because honey you complete me

We conquer life together

Then take a bow

Chorus:

Baby you drive me crazy

And I drive you insane 

You still put your arms around me

And staked your claim

You're ornery and sometimes mean

But you'll always be my queen

All the rest goes without saying

Chorus

My life is in shambles I have a wandering mind

I chase after thoughts but get tangled in the lines

I head towards the shore but in comes the waves

That leave me out drifting and stranded for days

Chorus:

I’ve been searching for the answers

Searching all the time

For something to focus

My wandering mind

Another thing lost; now where could it be?

Probably somewhere off yonder with my sanity 

I head down the road, but I can’t pick a lane 

So, I end up just wandering and circling the drain

Chorus:

Bridge:

No wonder why I wander

The blunders sweep me under

And I hang by a twine

With my wandering mind

I'm ready to feel steady, I'm longing to feel whole

To wake up one morning with a mind that don't roam

I get two steps ahead then I fall eight miles behind

I've been running around crazy with this ole mind if mine

Chorus:

One day I'll feel focused one day I'll feel free

Because all of my thoughts will be clear as can be

I'll show up ready and rearing to go

When I feel content way down in my soul

Chorus:

No more searching for the answers

No more worrying all the time

For something to focus my wandering mind

Bridge:

And you’ll wonder why I wandered

As I ponder and move onward

I’ve climbed the twine

So, I can find peace of mind

I’m the wandering kind

In This world there are treasures

That may be weathered or

Lost in the hustle of life

Put in a drawer, and thought of no more

Until time is right

In these underdog stories 

There's moments of glory

Where ones true talent is seen

When the favored get labored

And all by the way while

One of these treasures steps on the scene 

Chorus:

Junk drawer dimes shine like diamonds

Lord knows why they're tossed away

When discovered, they shine like no other

As they see the light of day

I’ll tell you of a singer,

A true blue picker

That writes like his hearts on his sleeve

Never got his big break so his soul aches 

But he never stops his belief

In the old run down bars

He plays his guitar

Singing to a crowd of a few

If you keep writing and trying

Then before you’re dying

You can quit singing these blues

Chorus:

Let me tell you of a child

Who seems meek and mild

The world they love to observe

Talkers, gawkers And chest puffed out walkers 

Make it hard for their voice to be heard

But in their heart is a fire

A burning desire

To show their merit and make

If you study like a demon

And never stopped believing

Then success will find your way

Chorus: 

Lastly the lover 

with a heart like no other

A true treasure with a soul to behold 

One after another

They get passed her over

They think they'll die lonely and old

But love finds a way

It'll happen one day

You'll know from the very first line

Then happily, no more agony

No more lonely nights crying

Chorus (x2)

My little Darling that night we parted

When you left for the great unknown

My heart sang a song of sorrow

When you were on that train and gone

Chorus:

I’ve been thinking of you

Have you been thinking of me?

I’ve been lonesome as I can be

The days are long, the nights are longer

I’ve been thinking of you

Have you been thinking of me?

When the train rolled from that station

My heart was heavy like the grinding rails

I waved goodbye as we parted

Then I heard that lonesome whistle wail

Chorus:

The night is cold, my heart is burning

My loneliness I can’t ignore

My darling dear, I’ve been yearning

Yes, I’ve been waiting for you return

I want to float down your sweetest stream

Drive into your deepest dreams

To find something to believe in

I’ve been starving out on the streets

Dealing my heart to thieves

Just searching for some feeling

And now I’m wounded, and I’m scarred

The deck is stacked with joker cards

I’m in need of some healing

Chorus:

Oh, my muse of fire

You set light to my desires

You make my heart start beating

Sometimes the world feels so grey

You bring the colors to the fray

And you make my dreams start weaving

The way you talk, the way you move

It’s like you got nothing to prove

I’m digging what you’re bringing

Once I was a cynic, now I’m all smiles

You took my heart, turned up the dial

And left my soul singing

Chorus:

Like a Shakespeare Sonnet on the wooden O

Or a sunflower by Van Gogh

Your beauty should last forever

You’re like a scene by Claude Monet

Not a flower, you’re a whole bouquet

You’ve made me a believer

I’m going to write you love songs

And heart felt poems

Because babe you get my heart ah going

You give me the fever

I once met a man who had lived a dozen lives

Hitched up and down this highway a thousand times

He talked like a saint and drank like a sinner

He lived, and that was all

He said this town ain’t nothing but a place on a map

There’s no reason to feel so dog-gone trapped

There’s a dream out there worth having

If you follow that long and lonesome road

Chorus:

If you’ve seen what I’ve seen

Done what I’ve done

The world is alive, the nights are always young

You’ll be strong as a mountain

You’ll drift like the wind 

You’ll learn to just travel on

The bar light was dim, and I was sitting alone

The room was empty, but the whiskey flowed

I was living it up the only way I knew how

By Sitting and watching the world go round

This old man walked in, and he was slinging some tails

Of traveling, hitching, and riding the rails

His face was worn like his dirty clothes

He leaned to me and said “son, don’t you know”

Chorus:

Another day at work another hour drags by

I think about that tough old guy

He had grit on his bones, fire in his eyes

He fought the world and came out wise

Chorus:

She was a beauty I thought she loved me

She spent my money and man, we went on a spree

But now she's gone well where is she now?

With some other fella trying to drain his bank account

Chorus:

Good looks can't hide

Crazy for long

Beauty alone never built a happy home

A smile can't hide all of her lies

I'm damn sure glad that she went on down the line

Her true art seemed to be, how to manipulate me

Smile, look me in the eye then talk about "we"

I must admit, it was a hell of a con

I'm wiser now that the crazy gal is gone 

Chorus:

I feel sorry for the guy who won her heart

He was wrapped around her finger at the very start

Then they fell out and they fell out hard

He came home to all his Shit Burning in the yard

She keyed his car sent a million texts

Made it known that she had been sleeping with an ex

All this because he told her no

When she asked to go and spend all the poor guys dough

Chorus:

So, fellas if you find a woman so fine

Go Dutch when you take her  to wine and dine

If she's a keeper well man oh man

she'll swipe that check before it ever even hits your hand

Chorus:

(Male)

My sweet senorita

Will you hold with me tonight?

I've gotta be riding out 

With the morning light

Honey my babe, 

This will be my final ride

There's a posse on my trail 

And they want my life

(Chorus)

Just love me this one last night 

And darling please hold me tight

For with the coming of tomorrows sun 

I'll be on the run

(Female)

Head south towards Loredo

Cross the border and be gone

Babe it's hard you break my heart

You belong in my arms

But i know they will come

Badges glistening in the sun 

Try and flee and promise me

You won't reach down for you gun

(Chorus)

Now come lie with me under the stars

In the weary hours before dawn

For with the coming of tomorrows sun 

I'll be on the run

(Male Verse)

What makes a man

Are the deeds that he's done 

Why did I kill that man

Look what I've become

Soon my name

Will be on every saloon wall

Some words were said I saw red

Now I'm on a Gallup straight to hell

(Female verse)

What happens tomorrow

No one can tell

The prophets of old 

Tried to explain it and they failed

You must learn to survive

You gotta never look back

Ride and pray and live today 

Like it's your final act

(Chorus)

Senorita, please give me your hand

Time is short and babe I understand 

That with the coming of tomorrows sun

I'll be on the run

Dear ole dad worked his whole life

Getting that overtime

Drank a tall boy after work

But he raised his boys right

Loved me, never judged me

He taught me to be a man

A hard-working hell of a guy

I love my dear ole Dad

Chorus:

Dear ole dad

I’ll cherish all the moments that we had

If heaven has weed, he’s high up there you see

Man, I miss him dearly

This one it goes out to dear ole dad

Dear ole dad bought my first guitar

And my first Dylan album too

Showed me all types of tunes

From Jim Croce to the blues

From Navy he turned hippie

Then to blue color working man

He was a dead-head loving hell of a guy

He was my dear ole Dad

Chorus:

Dear Ole Dad said him and mom

Fell in love at first sight

Her and a friend needed bud

And he was there when the time was right

A first glance turned to romance

Three boys down the line

He was a fun-loving hell of a guy

He was my dear ole Dad

Chorus:

Dear ole dad left this earthly place

But his memory will stay alive

I’ll carry it along with me

Until the day that I die

I feel calm knowing he’s with mom

But it still makes me want to cry

He was a hard-working hell of a guy’

He was my dear ole dad

Chorus:

There’s nothing like a cigarette

When you’re bleeding from the heart, love

All your silent punches

You don’t know what they’ve done

They caused me to strike my last match

But now I’m coming undone

On a highway filled with gamblers

Who’ve never won

Goodbye Sweet Marie You put a spell on me

I don’t belong in your world It’s plain to see

A vagabond with a cheap Bottle of wine

I was too much, for your beauty and forever gracing touch

With the typewriter charm of a rolling stone

I tried to smooth things over, but it all fell through

I woke up in the back alley of my tenement

Not knowing what to do, a broken-hearted lover who lost his groove

Some of my close friends tried to reel me in

Saying “don’t go loving ghosts, you just can’t win”

And I smiled and I walked along with them

But I had to lie, the heart ache on my face wrote a different line

Even with some whiskey, medicine, and good company

I feel the chains on me, and I want to be free

I feel like I’ve shuffled my last deck of cards

Is it so hard to bum a cigarette and have the blues be gone?

I guess it’s goodbye sweet Marie and your spell on me

I’m headed on down the road well c’est la vie

Maybe I’ll go find myself again, and who knows then

I can roll the dice come out on top and win

I've been walking down a lonesome path

My sorrow I try to hide

I've been living in solitude

It’s been so long since she died

But I've been knocking on the serpent’s door

Trying to find myself once more

Chorus:

The winds of change can't find me

I've been bound by the devil’s decree

Sunlight through a pane of glass

I think that I'll let it pass

The needles in my head

Have nailed me to the bed

But I'm dancing on the Satan’s floor

Chasing thoughts, I can't ignore

A candlelight in the dead of night

Burns out without a fight

A breath ends and the pain begins

Without time to make amends

I see the crossroads before me

Soon I’ll be bound by the devil’s decree

My blood boils and I lost my faith

I recall each move of the silver spade

A dark room and a .45

A single bullet, a single life

Hell, hounds are calling me

“You have no spirit to set free”

In life there’s love and sweet tomorrows

Broken hearts and endless sorrows

There are minds worn from hatred

Loving smiles holding something sacred

Before I met you my life was in embers

We lit a fire like our love was tender

Being your man is my life’s calling

I fell for you, and I still keep falling

Chorus:

You followed me down

You followed me down

Now our hearts are forever bound

When the yields are good and plenty

Love comes and things are easy

You walked with me through fields of glory

And when the page turned in the story

You rode with me through stormy weather

Down the rocky roads until things got better

If fortunes fade or they keep rising

Babe, I got you and that’s inspiring

Chorus:

We built out love on firm foundations

Now we hold our hands in celebration

Before I met you my life seemed tragic

You came along and you brought loves magic

It’s your love that gave my life purpose

And brought the best in me to the surface

So, here’s to us and our life together

Through the hard times and the pleasures

Chorus:

I've been trying to see through the lies

There's an emptiness running through my life

I keep trying to change my ways

The finger points in the finger points out

I fall from ego, or I drowned in doubt

What's going on inside my brain

Chorus:

There must be something wrong with me

I keep moving, I just can't breathe

I'm falling endlessly

I ignore love or I heed its call

I care too much, or I don't care at all

And the balance always slips away

I get inspired and take pursuit

Then I lose heart and can't see it through

So, I put myself on this pedestal of shame

Chorus

A heart of gold and a mind of thorns

Reach towards the light to be reborn

But the shadows still remain

When the anvil sparks and the hammer yields

Will the truth finally be revealed, or will it all just stay the same

Chorus 

It's been a long while

I've been walking some rough miles

Since I bid you adieu

Your name is like a poem, babe

I say it when I'm in rough shape

Well, I've been singing the blues

But your songs keep me going

And thoughts of you keep rolling

Through my mind

I hope you're doing fine

I've been missing you

I've hit some hard times

Fast lines and bad rhymes

But when thoughts of you grow near

They help me through the days of rain

To where the skies roam clear again

I hope you're doing well

Lonely roads keep on calling

Thoughts of you keep rolling

Through my mind

I hope you're doing fine

I've been missing you

You moved on, that's fair

I still think of the times we shared

Laughing like tomorrow wouldn't come

It's been a long time 

I'm sorry I left you behind

There was more I should have done

But sometimes life is just confusing

And tender hearts tend for easy bruising

And this heart of mine

It was meant to pine

I've been missing you

(bridge)

A man like me is meant to wander

Down the rocky roads of life

To let his days roll by like thunder

Until he finds what in his heart is right

And babe, that's you

My Love for you

Easy rider won’t you come with me

I know you yearn to be free

You feel locked down by a ball and chain

You’ve been chasing the dust that remains

You got locked down you say you can’t get up

The whiskey won’t flow to the top of your cup

Do you want to lie here and cry like a broken man

Or pick yourself up and say

Chorus:

The ways of the road still roll and flow

Like blood like steel

Now tell me how do you feel?

You were wild for a golden child

You were walking through a land defiled

Trying your best to catch the wind

Rendering your thoughts thin

Well hearts grow cloudy when thoughts turn grey

You never found the right words to say

How deep in your heart you feel a righteous storm

You know you felt before

Chorus:

You fell in line now everything’s the same

Look in the mirror it’s only you to blame

The boredom of your days is the crucifix of your life

I know you long to feel alive

The chaos is brewing you feel it in your chest

Life’s a game, it’s all one big test

You’ve been sitting here singing your worried blues

When you should put on your traveling shoes

Chorus:

How low, how low

How low can one man feel (x2)

I feel so doggone lonesome

I let the blues take the driving wheel

I got this gal that I’ve been loving

And another one that won’t leave me alone (x2)

The gal that I want wont give me the time of day

The other one blows up my telephone

Shine on shine on

I want to shine on and make this world my happy home (x2)

But I was born with these blues

So, I walk this lonesome road all alone

How low, how low

How low have I gone this time (x2)

I got this gal I’ve been loving

Been chasing her away with this worried mind

I stumbled downtown singing the blues

Dead set ready on drinking some booze

I'm going to drink the night away

I was liquor store bound when I ran into a friend

He knew I was trying to get drunk again

So he stayed with me to make sure I was okay

chorus:

Another whiskey morning

It's time to rise and shine

Have another drink, have another drink

Let's drink the night away

I started drinking in the middle of the evening

But the early morning drunk gives the best of feelings

When you got the whiskey in your veins

All night long I had the low-down blues

So, I sang to everybody in the room

I had to keep saying

Chorus:

Sometimes a man gets a low-down feeling

He drinks a little liquor and starts rocking and reeling

And he tries to keep going

Because friends leave, lovers deceive

But the whiskey is there, and you better best believe

It's bound to keep flowing

Chorus:

Whether you got the blues or walk around smiling

If you fall to the bottles sweet beguiling

It don't matter in the end

The sun goes up, the moon goes down

Let's drink it up while we're still around

Let's have another round of shots my friends

Chorus

Been reminiscing on something sweet

Good memories of you and me

But the blues has cast its shadow

Cupids missed again

Things between us lately have been rough and tumble

The fuse is nearly at its end

But a penny for your thought’s sweet darling

A nickel for your time

I’d give everything I own to see you smile

Down to my last dime, even this jug of wine

Chorus:

The road has been a little rocky

The skies have seemed a little grey

I still got this feeling deep in my heart, love

Everything is going to be okay

I’ve been blue without you

More lonesome than you can fathom

Blue without you

I’d like to end this feud

And hold you in my loving arms again

I’ve been pacing up and down the floor

Worried more than I ever been before

Lonely nights last forever

Without you by my side

Our foundation has cracked and crumbled

Leaving us with a great divide, I’d

Like to mend those wounds sweet mama

Look into your eyes

Tell you that I love you, tell you that I want you

And I hope you’ll realize

Chorus:

Love should never feel this way

It should be a carriage ride not a two-horse race

But here we are jockeying for position

Running against the wind

Well, if you love me, baby I love you

The way I see it we’re both going to win

Chorus:

The road has been a little rocky

The skies have seemed a little grey

I still got this feeling deep in my heart, love

Everything is going to be okay

I’ve been blue without you

More lonesome than you can fathom

Blue without you

Well without Eve there is no Adam

Blue without you

Let’s fuse out hearts and split the atom

Blue without you

I’d like to end this feud

And hold you in my loving arms again

I woke up this morning and my eyes were blind

My thoughts were cursed, I felt maybe I was dying

The walls were closing in and there was nothing in the air

I felt too far gone to care

Then I heard a long whistle from a far distant train

And briefly I felt like myself again

Chorus:

There's a long black cloud that’s hanging overhead

And it's trying to bring me down

I remember the day we buried my mama in the dirt

I could never describe to you how much it hurt

A piece of my soul is gone, that I will say

I fill it with sorrow, or I drink it away

The tears and the pain sometimes seem in vain

But it just feels good to cry

Chorus:

When the ones you love use the knives in their brain

To stab you in the back and leave you lying in pain

The shock of it all leaves you in awe

And you don't know what to do

You cry, you moan, maybe you curse the Gods

But you know damn well you'll beat the odds

Chorus

I've got this ten-pound headache, and I need a two-ton cure

Esmeralda my darling don't want me no more

She's out there picking daisies, she's been laughing at the sun

While I'm lost in translation wondering what it is I've done

I've got this Quasimodo feeling I have a hump on my soul

I'm going to hide in my tower lord, I'm going to throw away my phone

The bells of pride are ringing, I think I might just go insane

All my ink has turned to poison and now my words feel just like chains

I send for the clowns of laughter to speak to the leader of their brigade

He calls himself Ezekiel and I ask him for his aid

He says when my walls start crumbling, I should probably run and hide

But I keep kicking this can of sorrow down the hallways of my mind

He dances with the cherubs, flailing his finger in the air

And sends for his cronies to get me up and out of there

They throw me to the gutter, and then they hand me their card

It says "life’s a bitch mister, everybody’s got it hard"

Well, the puppets are at the pulpit and they’re looking to get paid

They're sharpening their blade and hoping to get laid

Then there’s the lonesome poet, he’s longing to be saved

They've been writing out his epitaph looking to bury him down in his grave

I'm going to lock down all these thoughts and bury them on the road

I'm going to keep on keeping on until I feel just like Thoreau

And when somebody tells me something I’ve heard a million times before

Their lips keep on moving, you know I just get bored

My hands were on fire, it seems I got too high

Now I’m standing here naked, and I can’t understand why

Theres all these circles running around my brain

I got this Shakespeare logic caught in my picture frame

Chorus: (x2)

I don’t know why I tried so hard

You Just can’t Understand me

Like some funky Odysseus headed out to sea

My Heart was in her hands, I thought our love would be the true odyssey

Now I stand here stranded, my thoughts grow thin

Like a phantom in the night, she alluded my once again

Chorus: (x2)

The room was moving, and my mind was too

My body was stone, and my heart was singing the blues

bridge:

While the moon

Shone into the room

I fell into this ancient tune

On the Ides of March, I walked up the stairs

I was stabbed 23 times with one look from her evil glare

Cry Havok! Cry Havok! Let slip the dogs of war

I was born singing the blues, lord knows I’ve been here before

Chorus:

Hey bartender, won't you pour me a drink?

My head is spinning around and I can't blink

There are people around the corner trying to bend me to their will

Trying to entice me with a dollar bill

They got soapbox suites and monocles for eyes

They’ll be happy till the whole world cries

In the smoke top factories filled with half dead souls

The chains rattle sounds like a funeral toll

While mounds of money flow through the hands of the few

They won't let you breathe until you've paid your dues

I keep trying to find what's false and what's true

Hey bartender tell you what you can do…

Chorus:

Pour me a shot of top shelf whiskey

Things are getting a little risky

I was going to drink to forget

But now that my whistles wet

I’m headed back to where the actions at

Delilah told Samson “You’re my only love”

Then she batted her eyes like the wings of a dove

The Philistines’ silver was lining her purse

The only thing that could quench her thirst

She said “my true love, what’s the secret of your strength?”

Samson said, "Bartender pour me a drink”

Chorus: 

Stagolee killed a man for taking his hat

He didn’t think twice he just grabbed hit gat

 “You took me Stetson now you’re bound to die”

You should have heard that poor boy cry

 Billy DeLine is dead on the barroom floor

Stagolee said “bartender, pour me one more”

Chorus:

The devil has been hiding in the soul of man

And it’s plain to see now the shits hit the fan

There are bombs in the sky and a wrinkle in every brow

I guess we all have to leave this world anyhow

When every heart is broken, and all love is lost

And we all realized that we’ve paid the cost...

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Well, the days are a long time passing

I’ve been itching to be traveling

I long to be somewhere

Anywhere but here at home

Give me darkness, or give me sunshine

Give me rough roads, give me those good times

Anything but this stillness

That makes me feel this illness in my bones

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Going to tie on my flying shoes

I’m going to kick those road sick blues

Some folks get homesick well, that ain’t me lord

There’s something else that I long for

A few thousand miles of pavement

A good ole dose of rambling on my mind

And the women, they come, and they go

Leaving only broken hearts to show

I don’t like that way of living

It’s time I should be spending on down the line

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I’m leaving so fare the well

Where I’m bound, I can’t tell

I’ll leave my keys in the kitchen

Because this time I’ll be hitching down the line

If you want to see the light, you gotta Sacrifice

Roll up your sleeves and pay the price

My friend, it's a long road to go down

And the voice in your head

That you try to lay to rest

Will endure, and it'll keep on wanting more

You've been walking over graves filled with dreams

Of other men's follies and other men's schemes

Sometimes you feel like it all will tumble down

Just keep doing what you do

Stop singing those worried blues

Keep moving on, you know it won't be long

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I know you feel stress and pain

Of feeling like a pawn in a rich man’s game

And everyday moves by just the same

You feel like giving up the ghost

And you curse this life you chose

As you peel off your filthy work clothes

The sweat on your brow means you're still alive

Keep struggling through to the other side

I know you feel tied down and bound

But the chains will subside

If you go along for the ride

Keep moving on, you know it won't be long

I sat last night with Johnny, now my pen is soaked in dreams

Theres’s lightning striking in my chest and I’m riding high on lost memories

Well, brother let me tell how you keep on keeping on

There’s freedom all around us and a journey in every song

Well, I lost the feather in my cap somewhere along the way

Down low on a lonesome road, I was chasing something that I craved

But then my boots hit sand and my thoughts were bland

I was trying to bum a ride on a lonely moonlit night

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Johnny I gotta tell you

I can’t find my way back home

Jonny, please won’t you tell me

How I can keep on keeping on

Well, I got spun on a dream like drug and I caught a glimpse of hell

I fell down without a sound, and it seemed like my spirit fell

I was twisted up and wound down, I was falling through the walls

I had busted my brain and went insane; I was feeling kind of raw

Johnnys eyes were sparks, his hands were fire, there was music in his soul

I just sat and wondered why that I had to play the toll

Well, this road is free when you look and see

Every story has to end for a new one to begin

I’ve been sitting around for what seems like days

Trying my best to keep my head straight

Sometimes it feels like there's no escape

The world is mad and so am I

We're all just waiting around to die

Trying our very best just to survive

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It's been a rough road at the bottom

Been trying to claw my way to the top

You can only sing the blues if you got them 

I've come too far to stop

Bad news comes and it's 1,2,3 

Sitting here wondering what's the matter with me

Why is my life filled with tragedy? 

Here I am all alone again

I ain't got nobody I ain't got no friends

Been telling my troubles to the wind

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It’s one shot of whiskey two shots of gin

One life of sorrow with two times the sin

It matters where you’re going, it matters where you’ve been

I keep walking down this road of life

I deal with all of the struggle and strife

Trying my very best to stay alive

The nighttime is rocking away, soon the sunlight will come my way

When a reflecting gleam from this bottle of wine brings the morning light

My Hearts grown heavy with dreams; nothing is ever as it seems

Those long-ago recollections seem so clear to me today

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What a good ole time

What a good ole time I had with you

What a good ole time

What a good ole time I had with you

At a bar in a no place town I was working on my seventh round

Just trying to fade the thoughts that had plagued me through the day

The room seemed dark to me, and I didn’t have room to breathe

No Room to really open up my mind

Then I felt a cold rush of air of the night winds drifting in

And naturally I had to turn my head

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Every man gets the worried blues, when he feels low down and used

But your smiled filled me with wonder, and I knew the night was young

The pain I’d felt that day went along on its way

It was like we moved amongst the spotlights as we danced the night away

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We tore up that dead end town with a laugh that was half profound

And when the morning light come on us, I felt time slipping in

The roads traveled since we left me there, none can quite compare

People filter through and leave without a sign

Another night comes to an end, and these thoughts are rushing in

And these empty bottles they call your name

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I'm leaving the chain gang

Jumping off the line

I'm leaving the chain gang

And all my worries behind

Through nights of sorrow

The blues fell like rain

And my heart was yearning

To feel the light again

These thoughts of you bring sunshine

That brightens my cloudy days

One thought of your smile, babe

Makes me want to Sing

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Lonely nights in this factory

I got you on my mind

Been dealing with the slow drag

The Slow drag of time

There must be more dear

To life than this

Been daydreaming all night

Of your sweet kiss

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It's almost time, dear

To clock out and go

I'll be on my way soon

On my way home to you

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