I've spent twenty three nights in this one horse town I've been jacked up, been broke down for too long I've been bustin' my tail in the blazing sun Watching
You could say I never liked the square life You could blame it on my circle of friends It's just been me, Jack D., Jimmy B And Johnny Walker Red I thought
It's about time you came 'round I'm still trying to figure out What's so good about this life you've found Yes, I'm doing fine now But I'm still trying
She loves to love me I love it when she does When we get together I feel a bit corrupt When she feels the yearnin' Then I just let her go And we're off
Things are too simple, things are too hard Nobody's happy with the way things are Looking for the quick fix, the short term loan Got to rent 'cause you
Julie was a girl of modest means Used to a high school beauty queen Wound up on the wrong end of her dream And said, "Never again" Started livin' life
Why can't I? G.I. Joe moved to Mexico, he's hiding from the IRS Wearing diamond rings and livin' like a king at an undisclosed address Superman flew
She was a waitress down in New Orleans She had a broken past He worked the oil rigs over in Corpus Out on a weekend pass He sat down at the end of the
I've been wrong and I let her down Either gone or just not around And I was wrong when I said I'd change 'Cause all I ever changed was her name This
Promises hung out on the line Sparkle and shine in the daylight Promises and little vows unspoken All too soon lie broken in the arms of the night I
Cotton balls between your toes, they're all lined up in a row As you're paintin' your nails at breakfast time It's the way you drink your juice It's mesmerizin
Billy's standing out by a west Texas highway With his thumb in the morning air He's spent 18 summers in the dust of Odessa Never getting nowhere But
I'm talkin' about dreams Big as a the Texas sky So big that they're hard to believe Oh, I'm talkin' about dreams I'm talkin' about free To know that
The autumn leaves they rush outside my window Like they've got something so important they must do Sara will be home now any minute She likes her third
I start dreaming, driving home About having you alone I know that you'll be there for me But in my favorite fantasy, you won't be Across the street,across
My alarm clock in the trash can At three a.m. last night I don't need no wake-up call 'Cause I can't close my eyes When I do you're all I see and all
Well now I never went to college babe I did not have the luck I rolled out of Indiana in the back of a Pickup truck With no education higher Than the
Everyone says it?s no big deal Nothin? a little more time won?t heal Sooner or later the way I fell will change But they never hurt the way I do ?Cause
