She was shakin' her hips And I biting my lip Why don't you have yourself a drink? Well I guess that gives me just a little bit more time to think Don't take my ...

She said she'll be leaving soon Cold death in the afternoon She's gone, she's for free Go on out and light a cigarette Getting older but you won't forget You ca...

Cadillac conversations buried bodies and broken bones They're calling up widowed women on their rotary telephones A rich old man in a pin striped suit has the m...

I said darling why so blue She told me I been missin' you He said leave and she said stay Kissed my lips and quickly ran away Lost them buttons to my overcoat P...

Airplanes and speedtrains and my god she's leavin Actress and bad kiss with my heart I'm screamin' Well, headaches and heartbreaks; your words were misleadin' W...

Your body is shaking and my body is growing cold You tell your stories but your stories they're so old The sun is warm and the water is now fine But you've been...

She's saying that she waits for me Southern girl down in New Orleans She been saying that she waits for me But she don't wait for me She said she done heard it ...

Well it gets cold in here; These years they pass with fear Your daddy don't love you anymore The fear it comes and goes Money goes up their nose Your mama don't...

Well she said she's leaving me said she's been cutting throats And will find which ones are clean will see who bleeds the most Well preacher just wipes his face...

Well I think times are changing momma Break my spirit and kill my pride She might be the lawman's daughter But I'm gonna make that girl my bride I said, "Son I'...

Shake like a gypsy, dress like a king She said she loves me but she says the strangest things She said now I walk on fire I burn through cigarettes I built empi...

He's so alone He can't complain He's soaking wet in that Mississippi rain He can't see straight High on cocaine He's soaking wet in that Mississippi rain He's...

Well, I asked her while she cried what she was doing with her life, And she said, "I could marry a sailor, and I think that I'd make a good wife But he would le...

I'm a slave to the south there's a curse on this house I've been dying to leave but I just can't get out I've always been drawn to one wooden shack And a man wi...

Wasting away on the mighty Mississippi Hoping god forgives me for my sins Well starlight stained steamboats, and a rich man clears his throat Took a sip of whis...

Well I met the man who killed my mother He put holes inside her arms No they were not marks of stigmata lord Just a drug pumping empty heart Well I met the man...

Ain't no woman gonna bring me down with those teary eyes Ain't no woman gonna bring me down with those teary lies And oh my god, why do I watch you cry? And oh ...

I will stay for myself And you can leave if you think it would help Oh I could stay here all alone I'll close the blinds, I'll lock the door, and unplug the pho...

I said, 'Oh' She said, 'My head aches' But she's still dancing to the music that my band plays I said, 'Oh' I watch her legs shake And she was jumping up and do...

Well sharpen these words and fashion my tongue These bullets were fired from an unloaded gun By some man in the shadows who knows what he's done And hides from ...

I drank myself to sleep Then slept right through the week I know it's sad to say Things never go your way Finished my glass and paid my ta Threw up my hand and...