LYRICS

He was barely 19 little reckless brother

He was gonna do what we all dreamed of

When he needed money he picked up his gun

Drove to the bank to get him some

 

Wish I could say that I thought he’d know better

than thinking he could get away with a life on the run

Now he’s in prison and mama’s tears are falling

I’ll see you in some years little bro.

 

A life of crime if ain’t worth living

for all the time hiding or in jail

I tried to help him but I should have dome better

Pick guitar and have fun not rob with guns

 

I guess you could say he fell in with the wrong people

What a waste of our precious time

If things had just gone a little bit different

brother would be standing by my side

Got my motor runnin All for the Thrill

1000 ccs between me and the road

hop on the saddle honey head for the hills

 

Motorcycle hummin All for the Thrill

Riding the highway, me and my gal

thunder of the pistons, making me feel like

 

Id like to show you my risk taking side

It’s my strongest side

It’s how I stay alive

When I say all for the thrill

 

I love that lady All for the Thrill

being around someone who loves me to

Hop on the saddle honey head for the hills

 

Honky Tonk All for the Thrill

Gonna stomp and swing like we born to do

Lets go see the band and drink our fill

 

Beer drinking daddy gonna laugh and talk all night

do everything right

forget real life

when I said all for the thrill

 

When I go to work honey All for the Thrill

of taking you out with all the frills

lets go see the band and drink our fill

 

Party Hard core All for the Thrill

lets do it some more, party hardcore

Every time I see her the thunder I feel

If there’s one thing about booze that’s nice

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

playing cards, throwing dice

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

 

You can’t regret what you forget

Till someone calls you up

And tells you a little story

All about yourself

You might regret what you don’t remembering

 

If you were a loud mouthed crying fool

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

Picking fights and being rude

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

 

Elephant in the room and a monkey on your lap,

squirrel in your arms, laying on your back

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

 

Every time you get lit

You upset and through hissy fit

You can’t regret what you don’t remember

Woke up this morning, feeling so low

In a place I’m unsure of, where time moves real slow

Where whiskey’s a memory on my breath and my brow

Was the feeling last night worth the feeling right now?

 

Right now my head is pounding green faced

I said I’d stop overdoing it this

I believe I had fun, but I ain’t quit sure how

Was the feeling last night worth the feeling right now?

 

When the barroom is closed, I’m in a vulnerable state

Don’t wanna go home, stay out real late

Woke up next to someone, ain’t sure who or how

Was the feeling last night worth the feeling right now?

 

What can be said to the one’s you love?

Don’t lie just don’t mention it

Why bring it up?

But my body and soul feels dried up and cowed

Was the feeling last night worth the feeling right now?

Mother nature wins again

Although she is your friendly

She won’t ever let you choose

When it is you get the blues

 

Termites flying all around,

Stinging caterpillar on your arm,

Pothole swallow up your car,

Ocean wash away the shore

Lovers dreams end in vain

When you’re feeling that old age

When you’re lying in the clay

Mother nature wins again

 

Boulder fall and block the road,

Fire burn out of control

Wind so strong, you can’t walk

She looks so good I can hardly talk,

UFOs will abduct

Tornadoes and hurricanes and stuff

Getting called out on your bluff

Mother nature wins again

I know a place to get away, if you want to go

To the bottom of the bottle where some good times are stored

Beer and whiskey gonna take us away

Numb the pain for another day.

 

Another night gone wrong

Another honky-tonk song

Another spin around the world (the floor) we’re on

Another night gone wrong

But I feel so alive

I’ll be steppin out, every single night

 

I keep a joint in my pocket if I see you around

I got to take something for to calm me on down

Or I’ll be hollering and shouting, look what a fool I am

Betty don’t send me home alone again

 

I keep my fisted clenched up when a bully comes around

To the tavern by the rail yard or the levee down town

New Orleans, Louisiana if we don’t make it out alive

I hope to see you on the other side

I wanna be in love, but I don’t know where to turn,

I didn’t know till Mary came around.

But come to find out it ain’t so easy you see,

I love her but she don’t love me

 

I don’t wanna be in love, cause look at what it’s done

cause of how it feels when you loose someone

She’s right here with my, only in my mind

Memories linger for too much time

 

Oh what a mess

All I can do is mock myself,

Seek for better health,

Find someone else

 

I don’t want to be love, but I’m ready to have fun

I could use a friend from dusk till dawn

But watch yourself Cindy I could make you blue,

You love me but I don’t love yourself

 

I want to be in love, but I don’t know quite how

Until along comes Sue with the brightest smile

I’m no expert, but now I got a dream

I could love her and she could love me

 

I want to be in love, because of how it feels

When will memories turn on their heels

I once knew what it’s like to want to be true

Will I know it again will it be you boo

Or will we start all over and do it anew

I’m just sitting at the table

Feeling mighty able

And the cards are looking right, gonna make some cash tonight

Just hold on

 

From the nine up to the queen

They just waiting in line to win

I was all in, if I was them I’d be grim

Just hold on

 

Might have spoken too soon

Flush beats straight and I’m a fool

Now my money’s all gone, guess I saw that wrong

Can’t hold on

 

Can’t hold on to my money,           

But I can hold on to my dreams

Can’t hold on to this town

But I can hold a steering wheel

Can’t hold on to my brain

Can’t remember you’re name

Can’t hold on to this world

But I can sure hold a drink

 

All them kings and queens

Should have never meant that much to me

But when they’re spotted in a row, I tend to let that old cash flow

just hold on

 

Then the spades grew strongest

And the river done me wrong

Now my king and queen are dead, along with all the cash I had

Can’t hold on

 

Can’t hold on to my honey,           

But I can hold on to my scheems

Can’t hold on to this town

But I can hold a steering wheel

Can’t hold on to my brain

Can’t remember you’re name

Can’t hold on to this world, But I can sure hold a drink

You’re on fire baby I’m your gasoline

We don’t need no water, cause we’re in love

in this post apocalyptic New Orleans

 

Open your eyes, she’s burning up the floor

The way she’s moving, reminds me of

waves splashing on the shore

 

But this water’s on fire, watch the wave burn

I can’t tell if it’s natural or if it’s not natural

but I can tell there’s something going on

 

Flames are heating up

Damn it’s getting hot

so she don’t need no gown to go out on the town

She’ll take it around and boogie on down

in those hot pink yoga pants

She walked in, we locked eyes

I said hi with a look that said

It’s nice to see you, it’s been a long time,

how have you been?

The way she looked when she saw me,

it wasn’t so warm

She walked on by and said hi

a man rolls his eyes in the corner

 

It’s nice to see you but it’s not nice to be seen

I can tell from the look you gave

It’s a bad surprise to see me

It’s nice to see you but it’s not nice to be seen

 

It wasn’t so long ago,

you’d be out on the town with me

Now someone else takes you around

There is no us in we

So when you find out how to get what you want

be sure and let me know

Then every time I see yourself

I won’t want to go

She got one two three four which one’s coming through my door this time
Mad one glad to love three here for entertainment
This one come to make me miserable for daily living
She got one two three four five, no wonder I’m riled
I’m going drinking

In the morning time she’ll wake up loving, then I can’t do nothing
Dinner time, back on the fence, have a few drinks in the early evening
But when the night comes around, hard to know which one’s around

In the morning time she’s throwing a fit, says she bout to leave this nation
Then she loves me might just want to give, me some extra special attention
But when the night comes around, it’s hard to know which one’s around

Got the hammer down blues in the morning time, right when I go to work
Can’t put the hammer down baby till lunch comes around and again till the dust hits the earth
And on my way home from work what do I do? I hammer on throttle and I hammer down booze.

Got the hammer down blues and I’m highway bound
Will I go home or to another town
Doesn’t really matter what I do
Be swinging someone else’s baby to the hammer down blues

I throw it in the forge gonna melt my sword, just like you told me too
Pound it again with the hammer and then, temper it and let it cool
Heat it up again and bend it around
Daddy make the best steel that’s ever been found

I’ll twist off the cap like I screw in the scew
I’ll turn on the radio like I tune out you
In the mornin swing the hammer like John Henry again
When I get out of work tomorrow this is what I’ll sing

When I told her I loved her it made her so mad,
When I asked her to dance, was the worst insult she’s had
It’s said she’s well liked around this town
Just me and the wind is getting her down

When the wind was blowin, won’t step outside
When I tell her I love here, dissatisfied
Every day I still hear her name around my home
I just can’t take it she don’t love me no more
Bow
When the wind was blowing on the highway that night
I put my arms around her and she held me so tight
All this traveling and roaming, “I love you she said”
Will those words haunt me till I’m dead?

He’s running through the forest just as fast as he can
This time they ain’t after him, they want another man
But when they see him running, they give chase
But honor bound he won’t be found by cops on his own place.

The kid he couldn’t do nothing right.
Junky and a thief the lord couldn’t stand his sight
He wasn’t allowed nowhere in town
But it was funny when the cops were there…

Some folks do wrong when they should be doing right
Some act that way most days of there life
Stealing from your family no one can stand
But it was funny when the cops were there…

Thrown his shoes in the fire so he couldn’t be tracked
Buried himself in the mud with a straw sticking out
Then he run to his Mom’s house, what did she say?
Go turn yourself in boy, you’re trouble these days…

Why do I moan?
Why do I wonder?
Why do I need an alabi?
Live from day to day
Then you pass away

Live from day to day, You’re far away
Don’t feel like that, Don’t talk like that
Or you might pass away with naught to say
But the blues
And the truth is, you could find bliss a better way
Maybe not today drivin long highways
But when fall is here, won’t be moanin the blues

Along these highways
No time for no byways
Rushing from place to place should be settin my own pace
Live from day to day
Then you pass away

One January evening, down in Fort Worth
I met Rudy from Juarez
Things started out friendly, drinking and smoking
Living it up in the old familiar way

As things loosen up his mouth begins run
Bout the days running goods across the line
He was twenty years old and had the wounds to prove it
Said he’d died 5 minutes and came back alive

He pulled out his pistol, said he’d kill for nothing
I was thinking, “Time to say goodbye”
he shot into the ground with a real mean expression
I was gone real quick, “Fort Worth goodbye”

The funny thing was his grandma was in the house
ninety five years old and sitting there
I wonder if she knows how Rudy’s living
Running drugs, ditching hearses, killing men
Running from the men who want him dead

Some friends of mine riding the NS line
They was rambling and smiling and riding high
Got of in Meridian got back on again,
was the wrong train headed over too Jackson
Got off again start looking around,
there was nothing around, they’re miles and miles from town

Walking and walking, what did they find
A little bar by the railroad where they could go hide
Oh no, something’s wrong
It’s like they never seen a hobo before
My friends were just sitting there looking around, minding there own buisness putting their packs down.

Oh no, somethings wrong
It’s like they never seen a hobo before
Way out there in the industrial waste,
they don’t want no strangers in that place

The patrons there don’t look to good
One’s staring at the wall not saying a word
The found out in the back room with the klansman railroad picture and the folks playin pool
The hideaway is where people go to hate out loud ain’t noplace for a hobo trying to have a good time

The kkk is sad and they always wrong.
They ain’t got no railroads and they got no songs

I’d follow here to Dallas, Texas and gladly break up this band
If I could know just for a moment what it’s like to be her man
I know that’s just in dream, in the morning we’ll split apart
I’ll go down to North Carolina and you go to Arkansas

Bow Down to the road out of town
Come around to who won’t let you down
We found the road out of town
Come around and walking through
Those fields and hills and flowers
Yesterday maybe tomorrow

I can sit here in the winter time remembering our summer fun
Walking up a mountain, taking in the afternoon sun
Wildflowers were bluming, blue sparking in your eyes
It’s something to recall now all this snow is flying

When I was 18 and it was Halloween
gonna have some fun my friends and me
Got all dressed up got a bunch a beer
I was a devil with my lady in heels

Went to a party, what a good time
All those young people getting to high
I got so drunk it seemed to me,
I was a devil, little devil in me

When I was a devil and a devil was me
I left the world there spinning under me
It wasn’t wrong but it wasn’t quite right
Being a devil on Halloween night

I ate something and I went down
The world was spinning I wore a dark crown
I left my body, no one could see
I was a devil, little devil in me

Floating around saw my body on the ground
and the people on the dance floors really getting down
White rabbiting in there minds jack rabbiting on the walls
I was a devil, those were my laws

Woke up the next morning was that a dream
I asked my friends and they told me
The things I’d seen, all were real
I was a devil but lost my lady in heels

I went over to my neighbors place I was just sitting there
Talking to a real nice man, my friend I do declare
His wife came in a-crying, I couldn’t stand to hear
I asked her what the matter was and she said, “My Dear,

I can tell I’m getting older, I can hardly see
But I have to thread this needle, could you do that for me?”
Her husband he just grinned, gave me to understand
Sometimes all you neighbor boys can lend a helping hand

So I done my best to help her, I sewn that needle through
And we sewn together to beat the afternoon blues
In and out around and round the need and the thread
We sewn so much, its hard to believe, right there on her bed

Well now it’s time to go I know I’ve lent a helping hand
And if you need one tomorrow you can call me I’m you man
And this goes out to the lady’s, living all around:
If you need to thread your needle and sew a little in me a friend you’ve found

She got her brimmed hat lowered
She’s standing in the corner
Does she know that I can see her there

The place was jumping
People was bumping
But her shadows taken me far away

Cause I still love her
Even though I’m a guitar picker
In this dingy old honky tonk bar

The last time I seen here
She was god damn meaner
Than a rattle snake who’s tale I stepped on

We were really going at it
We both had had it
With each other after all these years

But now that I can see her
I want to re-meet her
And start it all over again

Cause I still love her
Even though I’m a guitar picker
In this dingy old honky tonk bar

“I walk through the forest with my dog and my cane”
Said the old man “looking for wood to plane”
He’d plane it on down and pu on the strings
Bring it to the square dance, make the dobro sing

He made mandolins and guitars and he named them for his daughters
Named them for his granddaughters, as the years went on
And he’d give them to whoever he thought would use them better
And he had a lot of fun, and he never sold a one

Down in South Carolina where the hills roll so green
There’s an old man living be his own means
When he was young he played all the dance halls
Now he goes out once in summer and once in the fall

He’s ninety years old and he’d spin a tall tale
Some of it was real and some of it was fables
As the night got longer the pickin’d get hotter and
The tales would get taller till tomorrow come around

She wants more than I can offer
How can I give what I don’t have
No matter what I do, it’s “Jonny can’t get along with you”
She rolls her eyes and turns around

Some gals think it’s ok to treat their man that way
I know that cause I’ve been there many times
I’ll never get along with you, our love has made me a fool
She rolls her eyes and turns around

I know our days on earth are numbered
I can’t give you the time that I don’t have
So it’s no matter what I do, “Jonny can’t get along with you”
She rolls her eyes and turns around

Doe’s a man make a womans life complete?
Does a woman make a man’s life worthwhile?
If these things are true, why can’t I get along with you?
She rolls her eyes and turns around

Are we on another run?
Just out having fun?
I hope so cause that’s always the best
Though I’ll never get along with you and our love has made me a fool
What are these chains by which we’re bound?
She rolls her eyes and turns around

Dream a little dream, been dreaming to long
Sometimes you wake up and sometimes you’re wrong
Sometimes you wake up, been dreaming this song
And the plans that you make up sure don’t last long

Been making no money, been drinking too much
Expect me to sit here and wait for my luck?
Ghosts and the dreamlands and the mountains above
Sit down beside me and loosen me up

Sometimes I remember, I just don’t know why
I think of you and the times we passed by
Alone and spending this night in the woods
Moons just hanging there, smiling like I should