All lyrics written by Grfiters & Shills. All rights reserved.
RUNNING OUT
A mindless talking head stands on the altar
the congregation basking in the glow
Ain't no need to think or question what's the truth and what's the lesson
he's here to tell you all you need to know
He's selling what they paid him to deliver
He'll show us all around this living hell
We'll all die together on this sea of nasty weather
It's a hard lesson learned, I can tell
Most folks today think no one's the wiser
we load our guns and do it all over again
we'll toss and turn and crash and burn and never ever learn
we'll end up spittin fire on our sins
His evidence defies the face of reason
Convictions lie below what he believes
Holding your attention while the flaws were never mentioned
The roots that grow from bitter little seeds
What happens when you're left alone to wonder
Pinned beneath the shadow of a doubt
No line between creation and our homemade ruination
No way to stop the light from running out
MUSIC MAN
Interrupt the night like the lights on the freeway
leaving here knowin that I'm never going home
waking up alone in the throes of a threeway
calico kitten with a black cat bone
breaking down the walls while they're building up their towers
ain't now way to settle when a sinner steals a soul
burn another bridge while you kill a couple hours
pieces fit together but you'll never make it whole
you gotta make a move
you gotta make it hard
with a last chance layin on the line
music man told me once
that his notes run sharp
but it sure beats runnin out of time
they try to turn your eyes from the road that's never taken
playin out your hand carvin years into a wall
cure a lot of ills with a false innoculation
swear that it was worth it when the curtain comes to call
gambled it away on the charlatans and liars
never taking double when the deed is said and done
pretty little secrets on a sacrificial pyre
silent as a bullet that'll never leave a gun
NEVER AGAIN (AGAIN)
Another round here we go
I know your lies like the back of my hand
Another night of never again, again
Oh I know your lies
Ooh you say baby
Ooh you’re talking crazy
Ooh you’re gonna make me
Ooh fall again
Ooh you say you’re sorry
Ooh baby don’t you worry
Ooh you never meant to hurt me
Ooh once again
Ooh gonna get my shotgun
Ooh you’re gonna turn tail and run
Ooh ain’t you the smart one
I know you’ll do it again
KEEPIN' SCORE
Long time ago I had a friend who drowned himself in booze
He had a broken heart he couldn’t shake
Sank so low that in the end found nothing left to lose
Guess life just got too big for him to take
Sometimes the answers show themselves so gracefully
Sometimes all you’re left is wait and see
Let him be, let him find his own way
There’s a whole lot more to life than keepin score
The gig is up and life will set in someday
And all this shit won’t matter anymore
You’ll be the first who knew me when and you’ll show to see
What i can offer you when I’m a star
Don’t forget the kind of friend you thought that you could be
When meetin me halfway was just too far
Ain’t no way to fix the mess of plans you laid
When you wake up lyin in the bed you made
Ain’t your place to tell a man the way he oughta be
No one’s buyin what you got to sell
Reassess where you begin your help ain’t what I need
Maybe you should give it to yourself
There’s nothin left for anyone to do or say
When the time is right to turn and walk away
SWEETER WITH WINE
Got me a bed and a bottle
But no one to care for me
That man of mine made a backhand move
And he took off for Tennessee
Down to my last dollar
And one more match to light
Got a world of hurt waitin in the morning
But tonight I'm feeling all right
You know I'm gonna
Get by, love it in the mean time
Stale bread tastes sweeter with wine
Take yours, baby I'll make mine
Broke down but feeling fine
Ain't worried 'bout tomorrow
And tonight I feel no pain
This bottle of mine'll keep me occupied
Till I make it home again
As soon as I find my fare
I'm gonna catch that old east-bound
Tell my mama I'm headed down to Memphis
Gonna shoot that fucker down
DISAPPEAR
I have seen you far away and I've seen you right beside me
Seen you walk on water and and I've seen you when you're lying
Seen you light the bluest sky and seen you disappear
I always know it's you when you whisper in my ear
Seen you break and seen you mend, seen you fight again
crawl back from the ashes of when I knew you then
No point in forgiveness for things that we've been through
Just hope and pray that we might stay and we will start anew
once again
oh what's the point let's just throw caution to the
wind
once again
you'll never disappear it's just you and me my
friend
I will see you through until the end, those ties they always bind
every darkest night is broken with a new sunrise
You blink and then you miss it, the chance to be alive
I'll always think of you in the deepest darkest night
once again
oh what's the point let's just throw passion to the
wind
once again
We'll never disappear it's just you and me my
friend
We've sung our final chorus and said our last goodbyes
one more round's a guarantee that we will never die
Holding on to promises we made way back when
I'll always sit right here and wait for you to whisper then
At the end
You’ve never been this beautiful I know we’ll start again
we'll begin
I'll never disappear, it's always you and me my friend
2-55
Well we hightailed it down to the old corner store
A fake ID and we got twelve more
took the Detroit steel down the old two-track
swore myself to god we were not comin back
Ripping and runnin every way but right
All we got left is one last night
It was a long summer day and a hot summer night
A south Texas Friday night fuck or fight
Got nowhere to go and no one to see
our own little private penitentiary
We got ourselves thinking bout that old highway
we gotta get away
Flying down the highway in my two fifty five
Wondering how we'll ever make it out alive
Put it on the floor, don't ask her for more
it's a redline mainline show-em-what-for
Well we hammered it down and we made a deal
In our straight-six fast-lane American steel
The devil may care but we don't give a damn
If we're in his heart or part of his plan
When you're riding with me you're right at the shrine
Give your heart to Jesus cuz your ass is mine
We headed on down to the deadman's curve
ain't a big deal with a little nerve
to tie on tight and ride on right
Walkin that tight rope day and night
Runnin with the devil, keepin God at bay
Well the west state line's just up ahead
Gotta make a break when we're seein red
No black and white gonna ruin my night
Ai'nt no wrong when the road goes right
And the one we're on only goes one way
Flying down the highway in my two fifty five
Ain't a livin soul that makes it out alive
Pedal on the floor just give a little more
it's a redline mainline show-em-what-for
TAXIDERMY TOWN
We don't see many people here, but when we do we sell them fear
have sweet dreams in the asylum, where there's always a constant hum
just beyond the old nuthouse with boarded windows broken out
the oak trees creep along the ground and silent screams make not a sound
What madness breeds here? No memories are clear
In the eyes of the clown, with this ship we'll go down
So pet the mummy boy's head
for luck
it's a perfect little getaway, so take it in and look away
we'll dig a grave just for you, don't thank us, it's the least we can do
The ghosts of random soldiers lie, in the mud of 1865
just beyond the iron gates of death-head stones there's no escape
Our children grow to ten feet tall, and run like horses through the halls
our trophies with their frozen stares, with crumbling eyes and tufts of hair
the lineage has just one branch, of sanctimony feuds and rants
the water here runs thick with blood, a family tree turned firewood
cross the tracks and take a stroll, divided by the cotton boll
we'll tell you of the carousel, of insanity and the road to hell
fiery apparitions leer while hissing gospel in your ear
you'll never change our crooked town, this sinking ship, it all goes down
HIGHWAY RIDE
well it's another day I sat here thinkin' that I might just give it in
not much to do but wander through and wallow in my sin
never much for drinkin' or any believin' there's life in the promised land
just hopes and dreams like grains of sand I dropped from my own hand
ooohhh, hit the highway ride
ooohhh, gonna make it right
ooohhh, hit the highway tonight
ooohhh, let it ride
I'm bored as hell trapped in this cell these walls of my own mind
there's a building rage of fire and brimstone trapped in my desire
I was born on the backs of bad decisions it’s all I’ve ever been
I know it’s wrong I don’t give a damn I’m a serpent born to sin
Well the time feels right to seize the night, throw caution to the wind
no holds barred underneath the scars of road burn on my skin
a graveyard stroll in the full moon light I can see with my own eyes
no hole for me yet, so no regrets let's hit the highway ride
WHEN THE DEED IS DONE
I've beaten it down, ground it up, took a long drink from the sacred cup
I asked you why, but you just cried, another day I didn't try
to blow it up, and who cares why, I won't stand your dirty lies
so walk with me in the desert sun, I'll leave you here when the deed is done
What's wrong with you, is all they'd say, but I'd just lie and look away
and make it right out in the light, but you just couldn't get it right
so I'll take you out to the edge of town, you'll never make it back around
I'll throw you down that wishin’ well, and send your black-eyed soul to hell
I prayed to god this hell would find an end
Ain't no way I'm goin back again
Gonna face my trial of a thousand ragged miles
I can't stop now, my hand's on the plow
to dig the unmarked grave that holds the shit I never gave
Promises you gave to me - now until eternity
but you gave in and right went wrong, forever sure don't last that long
So I thought it best to bury you down, face down in no man's ground
and leave you be with your own kind, all the fools that went stone blind
I've beaten it down, ground it up, took a long drink from the sacred cup
I asked you why, but you just cried, another day I didn't try
to blow it up, and who cares why, I won't stand your dirty lies
so walk with me in the desert sun, I'll leave you here when the deed is done
SARGE
I started out a brave man, a hero to some
but I saw it as a job to be done
Served my time out on the line
Where the wells would run dry
taught my boys to fight when hell would come
I lived free in the desert sun, doin what I'm told was ight
slept out among the stars every night
I was young, bold, carefree, and a master of my soul
was a good life and a easy line to tow
I thought I'd found my way home
was free as the breeze to come and go
their walls couldn't hold me, and my angel she told me
I'm free to reap the seeds I will sow
one night we caught a boy, he's the enemy I'm told
We tied him to a board and watched him scream
the boss said he'd kill the boy, that no one would know
he wouldn't talk and he matters no more
in a white rage of fire, I beat the bossman down
made him look death right in the eye
I saved the boy but god damned myself to a hell I'd never known
a terror of the mind and of my soul
they let me go with honor and my pride I suppose
but I couldn't starve the demon in my soul
now I'm 20 years out on the street, no place to call my home
and I'll never see that boy again, I know
I'd finally found my way home
i'm free as the breeze to come and go
Their walls couldn't hold me and angel smiles upon me
I'm free to reap the seeds I have sown
HELL & HIGH WATER
Waking up to the sound of the rainfall thunder calls on the wind
a life to build, and instant to crumble and we'll never be here again
dawn is cruel, lifting the shadows and showing the light of the scene
all that's left is all you were holding falling apart at your feet
a tidal wave starts with a ripple
the surest commitment is sin
trouble turns up on two nickels
and hell and high water rush in
all we have is all we can carry and a memory of all that we built
nothing left but a few missing pieces and a hollow that cannot be filled
the road is gone, the way home is washed out there's no going back where we came
feeling blind through the fire and the fallout and looking for someone to blame
we can't deny the truth in the timbre or the tracks in the mud where we've been
but it gave us the fight, the will and the want to to tear out and build it again
So let it all burn down around me as the avalanche finally digs in
the wind will keep blowing but it can't take me lower than the dirt that my roots have been in
than the dirt that my roots have been in
LAST LEAF HAS FALLEN
I stand on the corner, With whiskey and water,
And a head full of come-what-may
On a cardboard sign, I painted a rhyme
on a brand new ordinary day
My family lies down, in the hallowed ground
In the mud of a cold winter rain
And I turn to leave, My place on the street
This dark and quiet refrain
The last leaf has fallen, My sons and my daughters
Where do we go, from here?
The moon's all alight Its mountains so bright
Where will we go, from here?
You shined like love from a million suns
You found your way down, to my place
and I lie here in rags some still with the tags
I hope this time you will stay
But before I go, I want you to know
there's always a better way
where the waters run down and the trees make the sound
Of a coming summertime rain
LEFT RIGHT LEFT
Wake up in the morning and I'm losin’ time, the ladder's gettin longer and harder to climb
Ain't never got a nickel, sure ain't got a dime, they ain't payin’ me enough to justify
This life of mine and yours and hers and his and theirs, it's
An old crime
Pickin’ up the pieces and holdin’ the slack, they'll fly you to the top but you're walkin’ back
Up high on the hog and they're having a ball, but don't you worry none they're gonna keep it all
Well this life of mine and yours and hers and his and theirs, goes
Left Right Left
Left Right Left
Left Right Left
Left Right Left
Keep it goin’ in a straight line, doubletime
Left Right Left
They'll spin it all up and knock it all down, and say the devil done it if there's no one around
Brush it off with a smile, hide the dirt on their hands, and give you all the glory just as quick as they can
Well this life of mine and yours and hers and his and theirs, goes
They're sayin’ there's a payout but they won't say when, and we're pourin’ down a double just to do it again
You try to keep it quiet but it's just no use, there ain't no way to shake it gotta cut em loose
From this life of mine and yours and hers and his and theirs, it's about
time
All the preachers and the poets got nothing to say, the money stops talking when we're walkin’ away
We're making up for time as we fall out of step, they'll finally get the message when there ain't nothing
Left Right Left
SOMEWHERE TO GO
Well the latest reports got it all figured out
and they're all saying this time it's all gonna change
but we still hate each and we don't ask what for
it's the very same shit with a different name
Well it seems like there used to be somewhere to go
Where the helpless were hopeful and the lost could be found
Where we didn't give up until after we die
But you know I can hardly remember that now
We've created a place where we're willfully blind
And the fight in the fury are lost in the sound
Where the rich just get richer
And the poor only die
And we only look up when there's no one around
Well it seems like there used to be somewhere to go
Where the helpless were hopeful and the lost could be found
Where we wouldn't be broken before being born
But I'm goddamned if I can remember that now
Well it seems like there used to be somewhere to go
Where the helpless were hopeful and the lost could be found
Where we didn't give up until after we die
But I'm goddamned if I can remember that now