Hayes Carll

There's a girl downtown with freckles on her nose Pencils in her pocket and ketchup on her clothes Shes a real nice girl, pretty as a plate The boys call her Katie when they ask her on a date And who knows Katie? Maybe you could be the one There's a

Jamie was a barmaid at the Underground Longrail Seems like every Friday evenin' She'd find herself in Jail Not a friend this side of Houston With the time to throw her bail But she'll be fine, she'll be fine Spent a lifetime walkin' Through the walls

After all these years of running 'round Of flying high and fallin' down Well, the time has come at last To rest my heart and ease my past I'm gonna leave these blues behind For some other fool to find He don't care and I won't mind Hide me babe, hide

Well, daddy joined the Air Force Said it was a good source Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce Ended up in Abilene Working at a Dairy Queen Put me in the Army on the day that I turned seventeen Here I am standin' in the desert with a

Ramblin' boy you been around From Dallas to the underground High above and down below Places I was scared to go You sang it loud in case they heard Hangin' on to every word Gentle as a lullaby Firecrackers in your eyes CHORUS: And I would give anythi

I saw you leanin' on a memory With your back turned to the crowd In that little bar on Murphy Where they play guitar too loud There were people drinkin' whiskey There were hearts about to leave It was cold as hell for Houston It was almost New Years

Arkansas, my head hurts I love to stick around and maybe make it worse I got a girl out in Henrietta Her love's like tornado weather Its Girls like this that keep me trying She goes off like and air-raid siren Come in clean leave torn apart A Bad liv

The time has come, there is no second chance We've been drifting on an empty aching sea You were the girl I never knew I wanted I was the boy you hoped you'd never see And it's a shame that we ain't lovers We could have been somethin' so big and gran

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the price that you pay

Eight line machine and a sailor's daughter Somethin' makes 'em crazy growin' up on the water Playin' for my supper six nights a week Hurricanes, Easter and New Year's Eve Four tin walls now there ain't much left Lookin' like a homeless Cheers on meth