They hit like hand grenades When they fall to the floor Precious pearls of pain Casualties of war Might as well take a knife Shove it through my heart If you're...

It's ten after 2AM he's stumbling in Drunk again tonight By the way he slams the door She knows she's in for a fight She raises her hands up to guard her face A...

The wind blew cold on that mountain On the night that I was made Pale moonlight poured on that cabin As the shadows dance to a hoot owl's serenade When that fi...

Her daddy hated his tattoos But she was in love with a baby due In September, early September So they called the kinfolk, set up the bar Threw some chairs out ...

This ride won't last forever, it's one circle 'round the sun There's no strings, no web waiting to be spun Can't you hear the music playing, it's a carefree cir...

Hey, lady, can I pour you something? Hate to say it, honey, you're a mess I see that mascara running, looks like somebody up and left Did he leave you for anoth...

As pure as a kiss from the lips of god A red rose bloomin out a canyon rock Through a hole in the clouds she fell one day And left her home on high so far away ...

I walked into the gymnasium With a corsage in my hands Pulled a girl out Of the big crowd And invited her to dance Everybody's laughing out loud I don't know w...

Toothpick's in my eyelids lying wide awake in bed Toss-in and turnin like the sea Moonlight shinin in like headlights in my room Hypnotized by the strips on ...

I might lie awake in the dead of night A prisoner of the moon; I might curse this world and yell at God But it won't be over you I might press this poison to m...

Another empty motel morning In a town with no name Cold coffee keeping me going White light driving me sane Dashboard painted with pictures Of loved ones I lef...

**beginning instrumental** Saw a picture in the paper My baby, and her husband to be Ceremony is on Sunday Honeymoon in Waikiki She was smiling like a float in...

The willows are weepin The grass is bowed down Coming down from the mountain Drifts a high lonesome sound Down in the valley sorrow runs deep The river stands s...

Redbird outside my window Sings a sad and lonesome song But his words won't have wings When I find the strength to move on Everyday the cut feels deeper But I ...

I keep havin' this dream where I'm inside this lion's mouth And everytime I climb right back in soon as I get out Wake up out of breath, in a cold sweat Ah, her...

Day after day I stare down this road And this clock in my chest just ticks away Night after night I go to bed alone Oh, how long must I wait Don't you know it a...

They found Emmit Thompson laying flat Said he threw himself on the railroad track Cryin' Jenny come down off that train Over my dead body you'll leave me today ...

Just out on parole, a new man, saved soul Ready to leave that life behind Bus ride and a change of clothes, no job, dead broke, No one wants a man who's done ti...