The air raid siren at the high school blew Every weekday, twelve o'clock noon Dinner time, people as if we didn't know I guess the city fathers liked to hear th...

Turned off the tv Sat down to dinner Phone rang, we were saying grace Grand ma died Left us sixty acres The last of the old home place Sixty acres up on the ca...

Where'd you go last night? I never heard you leaving I woke up in such a fright When I could no longer feel you breathing And I could smell the rain from the s...

I've got it all to myself now Crack the window just a hair Dark and close, the way I like it Black tobacco chokes the air I keep to myself, I lack the language ...

Strap them kids in Give 'em a Little bit of vodka In a Cherry coke We're goin to Oklahoma To the Family reunion For the First time in years It's up at Uncle Sla...

My thoughts were gnawing at me so I tried hard not to think I took a pint of whiskey and I poured it down the sink I'd get my act together, I swore it to myself...

He was a drinking man with a guitar problem Didn't have a dollar to his name He didn't seem to mind it all that often He mostly took whatever came And if it ca...

Last time I saw you It could've been Christmas eve It could've been someone's birthday It could've been make believe for all I know It could've been make believ...

I got a room with a Freeway view I'm only home at night I ain't ever coming back to you Or then again I might Then again I might get lonely Then again I might ...

The hurricane party's windin' down And we're all waitin' for the end And I don't want another drink I only want that last one again He gave me such a fine glow...

I'm not from here I just live here Grew up somewhere far away Come here thinking I'd never stay long I'd be going back soon someday It's been a few years Since...

I've had enough of this small town bullshit I'm not stayin' in school I'm makin' good dough workin' with my brother Cleanin' out pools I'm going out to Californ...

Flatter than a table top Makes you wonder why they stopped here Wagon must have lost a wheel Or they lacked ambition one In the great migration west Separated ...

Look off down the highway At the glittering lights Like windshield glass On the shoulder tonight As the diesels come Grinding on up from the plains All bunched ...

I guess we knew the cards were stacked Started out the best of friends And we beat that highway 'til it quit beating back It didn't mean much in the end Some yo...

When you land in Paris and they wave you right through Though your passport picture, doesn't look much like you They don't look at your luggage, they don't look...

Picked you up in Pocatello In some truck stop parking lot Out beside that burned up Volvo With the smoking engine shot And you just left that Volvo lying You ne...

Must be a cold front coming Cause I saw the eastbound C&O And the coal cars were dusted with a half inch of snow And that boy'll drive me crazy Don't know what ...

Remember when we'd get together Burn the candle don't you know Smoke and drink and live forever No on e there to tell us no This time I'm gonna kill that bastar...

She gets a little restless in the spring She might follow the lines you sing Bullshit though they are 'Cause sometimes that's just the thing If delivered with p...

Ride the blue wind high and free She'll lead you down to misery Leave you low come time to go Alone and low as low can be If I had a nickle I'd find a game If ...

Ruby said "You're gettin' us in a world of hurt Down below the Mason-Dumbass line the food gets worse I can't go back to Tennessee That NASCAR country's not for...

Standin' in the middle of a Roman street Marble dust all over my feet Bearded masses at the gates Dancin' in the ruins while it's not too late Drivin' a Rolls ...

Where you going With your head hung down Papers blowin' through the streets of town They've already taken all Of your posters down Didn't take 'em long once The...

I saw Pete and Johnny too Dressed up in their Sunday suits Getting themselves all up to go Down to Richmond to the traveling show I fixed the gate like you told...

I guess you had your reasons For the way you used to be Don't why I couldn't please you You just never had much faith in me There's fine dust in the tire ruts n...

They went about it in the wrong way I'da told 'em, but it wasn't my jo It's on the news, it's in the paper What could they've been thinking of? I saw 'em headi...

Hear the trucks on the highway And the ticking of the clock There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon Bullet holes in the mailbox Bullet holes in the mailbox K...

Don't know what's gotten into you Must be something in your genes About this time I was crazy, too And most times in between But I survived to live another day...

There's a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign Sitting there by the left turn line The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze One leg missing and both hands...

You look across the table with those guilty eyes So many mornings now, I shouldn't be surprised When you lash out at me then you scream out in the night What co...

I'm runnin' 'round in circles and I'm chasin' my tail Carvin' my initials with a rusty nail I train my intentions man it happens without fail You'd a' thought t...