Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee
Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee
Any old place I hang my hat is home sweet home to me

I went down to the depot and I looked up on the board
I went down to the depot and I looked up on the board
It said it'

Dead leaves and the dirty ground when i know
You're not around shiny tops and soda pops when i
Hear your lips make a sound when i hear your lips make a sound

Thirty notes in the mailbox will tell you that i'm coming home and i think i'd better sick around for a while so you're not<

I envy the quiet lives that for all I know don't exist
Outside of a lazy book that won a Pulitzer Prize
I picked up 'cause you said it opened up your eyes.

I'm wired now and will be 'til I find a person who could eat at the Empire Grill
Who's seen a black mercedes at the textil

Well I don't feel better
When I'm fucking around
And I don't write better
When I'm stuck in the ground
So don't teach me a lesson
Cause I've already learned
Yeah the sun will be shining
And my children will burn

the heart beats in its cage

I don't want wha

I caught a string full of fish down by the damn
I'll drag them back to the field they should be dead by then
Wipe the sweat off my neck and tally ho the plow
I'm gonna grow a woman from the ground

The night was a chalkboard with a fingernail moon
If the fish ain't dead yet

I'm yours if you want me
And I'm sorry if you do
'Cause I don't have that much to offer
A girl who knows as much as you

I'm scared of your body
and I'm scared of your sould
But I'd rather be letdown
Than let being with you go

I'm yours if you want me
you c

If the sea was whiskey and I was a diving duck
If the sea was whiskey and I was a diving duck
I'd swim to the bottom and I don't know if I'd come up

I'm just here wondering will a matchbox hold my clohtes
I'm just here wondering will a matchbox hold my clohtes
If things don

Locking doors, spotless pores, finding comfort in a total bore, the number four,
Genealogical lore, nothing feels good unless I've felt it before.

The neighbor's gay, he shouldn't be that way,
I'm gonna treat him like a person but not today, when I'm old and grey, and
he's dyin

Just for a moment, the moment I met her, I lost my breath but my lips whispered "she is the one"
Forgot who I was and who I was fooling, didn't remember she could be my first cue to run

We moved so fast
Never thought twice
Mind came at last
Put us on ice

We stayed in

You are the devil
Stay away from me
Stay away from me
Stay away
I am in trouble

But you're not what I need
You're not what I need
Even if I'm all alone
? For her
Keep yours to yourself
Cause I'm trying to hold on
To her as long as she can stand it to

You can point and laugh
I'm sure he's used to that
Using faith like an acrobat 'til the net breaks
He won't get upset
That though we've never met

I know everything he's said 'cause a friend once told me:
He's got hellfire in his eyes
There is madness behind the lies

I don't want to introduce you to my friends, 'cause I think they'll get the wrong idea.
You're so fetching in that dress - They'll think we have messed around
And though I'll tell them otherwise, I was gone all night with you.
What most people do will be running through their heads.<

Standing on a corner with a nickel or a dime
There used to be a railcar to take you down the line
Too much beer and whiskey to ever be employed
and when I got to nashville it was too much soldier's joy
wasted on the wayside wasted on the way if I
don't go tomorrow you know I'

What do you see that's so beautiful
It always reflects in your eyes
The world casts no shadows across your sweet face
You're an angel and I'm gonna cry

When I used to see you I'd smile
Just a pretty girl up on a sign
Then I'd thank god for mine now she's leaving
And