So if you don't want me I promise not to linger
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.

And so the rent became whiskey
And then my life became risky

In 1984 I was hospitalized fer approachin perfection

My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors and they help me see
that everything in the room right now is a part of me.

On the last day of your life, don't forget to die!

In 27 years I've drunk 50,000 beers..
and they just wash against me like the sea into a pier.

I have not avoided certainty
It has always just eluded me

How can I love you
if you won't lie down?

Sentimental as a cat's grave
Her fucking body broke my mind.
And she said "I'm gonna love, the hell out of you"

I remember me

I've got two tickets to a midnight execution.
We'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston
and when they turn on the chair
something's added to the air forever

So you've got no friends and
You wander through the night
And now you watch the sunrise through a rifle-sight

I asked a painter why the roads are coloured black
He said "Steve, it's because people leave and no highway can bring them back"

We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career
Out of writing sad songs and getting paid by the tear.

I'd rather live in a trash can
than see you happy with another man.

And I wanna be like water if I can
cause water doesn't give a damn

How can something so old
be so wrong