Tell you little side kick
you're gonna get your butt kicked
if you keep keeping on this way

Go and watch a sunset
watch the colors transit
from purple, to yellow, to grey

Underwater where the fishes holler
up above the water, bought a coller for your dog
it chewed away
it chewed away

Corner store a market
walking out for cigarettes
the moon is almost halfway lit

Little birds with little wings
softly fly and sweatly sing
the trees swaying in the breeze

Underwater where the fishes holler
up above the water, bought a coller for your dog
it chewed away
it chewed away

Tell you little side kick
you're gonna get your butt kicked
if you keep keeping on this way

Go and watch a sunset
watch the colors transit
from purple, to yellow, to grey

Underwater where the fishes holler
up above the water, bought a coller for your dog
it chewed away
it chewed away
it chewed away

Bring, I'm gonna bring
bringing home a pocketful of love

Save, I always save
save the last bite for me love

Now she's gone, went away
when she'll be back, she didn't say
I kissed her on the lips, told her to be safe
the day she left, went away

Time, this time
this time I'm gonna get what's mine
won't hide in a cupboard, or sell it down the line
this time I'm gonna get what's mine

I'll be here but I can't play
works not done, not all the way
one more word, one more note
left unwritten, left unspoke

Drive, gonna drive
drive until I'm satisfied
then, oh, then
I'll come home to your side

Hold like sap, to a branch
feed the fire, or it will not last
through the night and into day
if you sleep, I'll stay awake

Bring, gonna bring
bringing home a pockeful of love

The day, slowly rolling, slowly rolling
slowly rolling to the sea, I see you

Baby in a bonnet with a blue bell on it
baby in bonnet with a blue bell on it

How you feeling, tell me baby,
tell me baby, what can I do for you?

You are sleeping, dreaming easy
dreaming easy, dreaming easy
easy like a Sunday morning
easy like sunday morning
pouring softly, softly tapping
easy like Sunday morning
easy like a Sunday Morning

Feel the wind soft and cozy
lazy, freely, little joey
lazy, freely, little joey
just a baby in a bonnet with a blue bell on it
a baby in a bonnet with a blue bell on it
baby in a bonnet with a blue bell on it

Let the good times roll
let the good times roll
let them quench the
thirst of your soul, thirst of your soul, thirst of your weary soul

Have you been back home girl
since you seen the world girl
curl your toes to the fire
toes to the fire, toes to the fire
like you when yous a little girl

Gonna get me an airplane
gonna get me an airplane
gonna fly with the birds
fly with the birds, fly with the birds, fly with the birds

Strange to see
all the pastures empty
nobobys working
nobodys calling
nobody here but me

Walking to a pot luck
kicking rocks in the ruts
the ruts we
made as a people
made as a people
made as a people who walked this way

Don't know much about you
couldn't care what you do
I just

want to kiss your lips
want to kiss your lips
want to feel your hips
ride atop of me

I'm a better person
then I am in person
and all your lessons
they we're lost on me, they we're lost on me, they we're lost on me

Strange to see
all the pastures empty
nobobys working
nobodys calling
nobody here but me

So let the good times roll
let the good times roll
let them quench the
thirst of your soul, thirst of your soul, thirst of your weary soul

On the old pier
we would sit there
and into your green eyes you'd let me staree

You'd talk of home
and nights all alone
with burpin bull frogs
snakes on the logs
the soft cozy fog
and the fire flys flicker
and the fire flys flicker
and the fire flys flickering on

So I stared and I stared
but only a mystery lives there
still my blue eyes
tinker and pry
for a bow to untie
that fine fire'n flicker
that fine fire'n flicker
that fine fire'n flicker inisde

Wishes we're something that I've never done
but just this once lets do it for fun

On the old pier
we would sit there
and into your green eyes you'd let me stare

Darling, won't you tinker with me?
be my Leonardo Da Vinci
be the clockmaker at a half past three
darling, won't you tinker with me?

I ran, I run
I hid, I slid
to the bottom where the bottom feeders live
acted like a vulture, and ate what they did
when I ran, I run
when I slid, I slid

That tree did make an awful sound
like cats in the alley or dogs in the pound
birds in the attic, a jones'en addict
when the axe tore her down

Whisper softly in my ears
all your dreams I'd like to hear
orders, commands you got it dear
whisper them lightly in my ear

So darling won't you tinker with me?
be my Leonardo Da VInci
be the clockmaker at a half past three
darling, won't you tinker with me?

Caroline takes her time
she knows she has nowhere to go
the steam boat sign says only a dime
to get to the other shore

Mickey's head, is strung to get dead
to see it just pay at the door
they did, they did, they did and they did
till the room could hold no more
and at the time the fragile noose spine

left Mickey alive on the floor
and here the law says that if Mickey ain't dead
you can't try to kill her no more
the crown stormed out, dissappointed no doubt
they didn't get what they paid for
While Mickey laughed, another at bat
and got up and walked out the door

Caroline pays the dime, and lightly she steps aboard
there were children crying, mothers trying
to remember why they did this fore
while Mickey smiled like a bride down the isle
Caroline's boat comes to shore

The soda sign was advertising
buy one, they'll give you one more
and thats where they met, and they're still in love yet
so don't you forget, to get in the soda line
to get in the soda line, to get in the soda line

Tom and, Tom and his girlfirend
Susan, they're argueing again
at the Hardluck, the Hardluck down in Austin
where the jukebox blares Lightnin Hopkins

Come friends, come on join the fun
Susan's buying shots for everyone
Dennis, old Dennis, he likes his Jameson
when he sees me he pours me a shot of one

Mrs Glass, Mrs Glass, he knows my drink
TW, TW, and a splash of bitters please
TW, TW, and a splash of bitters please

Old timers, old timers
they always hang out here
they know, yes they know, Dennis pays in beer

Closing, closing down the Hardluck again
huddled, round Jordan while he sings about his sins
huddled, round Jordan, while he sings about his sins
he sings about his sins, he sings about his sins

Tom and, Tom and his girlfiend
Susan, they're arguing again
at the Hardluck, the Hardluck bar in Austin

I've been laying low
I've been laying low
keeping folks at distance
don't won't them near my soul, don't won't them near my soul

Been buggin by a thought
been buggin by a thought
buy another boat, or sell the one I got
the woods all rotted out, won't float, no doubt
maybe I'll just keep till it's someone elses to do with or do without

I've been laying low
I've been laying low
keeping folks at distance
don't won't them near me soul
don't won't them near my soul

There's a school of fish on recess
grasshoppers are kicking it
feels hot enough to break a sweat
but cold enough it aint happened yet

Who's gonna get your heart this spring?
tell you lies you love to believe
will brown ears tear you down to size
will blues eyes lift you to the sky?

The kids under the bridge play there all summer
the kids under the bridge they got each other

Days are long, nights in retreat
ants with watermelon at your feet
it's funny how in the south, food tastes bettter in your mouth

The kids under the bridge play there all summer
the kids under the bridge they got each other

Better break up
better get out
go and show them aging bones what it's all about

Better break up
better get out
go and show them aging bones what it's all about

There's a school of fish on recess
grasshoppers are kicking it

A lit cigarette
yeah, I ain't quit yet
I ain't quit yet

Won't bend and I'm greedy
I'll eat all you feed me
thank you, I love you
girl hope you don't need me

Chick a chick, a chickaree
in my coffee with some cream
hold the sugar till tonight
lovings better in the moonlight

Wet grass and dew eyed
surprised to realize
wet grass and dew eyed
tears from your eyes fly
wet grass and dew eyed
too late and you're surprised
wet grass and dew eyed
laying like cold fries

Why waste it, girl flaunt it
we all want up on it
you got it, you got it
and girl we want on it
why waste it, girl flaunt it
we all want up on it
you got it, you got it
and girl I want on it

I lit cigarette
yeah, I ain't quit yet
I ain't quit yet

Better back track, better relax
better slow, son
you been going much to fast

Let the past be the past
let that car past
the train your riding it don't run on gas
on that you can bet your ass

She's a loving machine
pick your bone clean
put you bed and lock the door when she leaves

She's picking the weeds
on her right arm a sleave
depicting here dreams
she wants you to see
but who of the two believe?

He's my righthand man
to do what I can't
put the bodies in bags
collect the cash
he's always pinching litlle girlys asses

I met him in Reno
yes, at a casino
a girl in one hand a drink in the other
reminded me of my brother

She says it's better in Texas
it's better, it's true
she drank the koolaide
now she's handing it to you

You swallow it down
to Texas your bound
just point the cars south
you've gone too far
if you end up in the gulfs mouth

When death comes to greet me
in New Orleans he'll meet me
with a gun in my hand
I'm a bargaining man
for the record let me enter my plea
take her
don't take me