1.Sweet Louise
Did you hear about me
Me and what I've done
I wrote a letter to sweet Louise
I confessed my love
And I thought that everyone would know by now
I've been alive long enough to know how things just get around
And everybody probably thinks I'm crazy
Well I'll just tell you now
That I fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love and I couldn't help myself
'One, two, a one, two, three, four'
It was like a movie
Watching her eyes read
What I wrote made sweet Louise
Feel weak in her knees
And I thought that everyone would know by now
I've been alive long enough to know how things just get around
And everybody probably thinks I'm crazy
Well I'll just tell you now
That I fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love and I couldn't help myself
In that moment you knew from her eyes
She don't feel the same
But oh my words were not in vain
'Cause I can always say till the day I die
That I, I told her anyway
Well I'll just tell you now
That I fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love and I couldn't help myself
I just fell in love
2.Where Not To Look For Freedom
Oh where am I gonna find a free feeling
Oh the one I've always wanted to know
Where I am not afraid of revealing, oh no
I'll show whatever I want whenever I want
Well I've done an awful lot of concealing
Yeah I've spent a lot of time just sitting at home
Oh and is the only way to find a free feeling on the road
Where you go wherever you want whenever you want
When you live in the unknown it becomes your home
And when you got nowhere left to go
Then you're gonna know
Where not to look for freedom
When you're inside your prison
And you're the only warden
Tell me where to look for freedom
Well I've been looking real hard for a teacher
But they better not be looking for me
'Cause I never found one in a preacher, oh Lord
Anyone that says that they see the way I should be
When everything you know
You don't recognize at all
Well then you got nowhere left to go
Then you're gonna know
Where not to look for freedom
When you're inside your prison
And you're the only warden
Tell me where to look for freedom
Oh I been getting heavy into my reading
Oh I been listening to my favorite song
Well I could never keep down a force-feeding too long
Eat up whatever I want whenever I want
Well you're gonna meet the wall
When you think you've heard it all
And then you got nowhere left to go
Then you're gonna know
Where not to look for freedom
When you're inside your prison
And you're the only warden
Don't have to leave the country
You cannot find your wisdom
In someone else's story
But if you find your glory
Tell me where to look for freedom
Oh where am I gonna find a free feeling
Tell me where to look for freedom
Oh where am I gonna find a free feeling
Tell me where to look for freedom
Oh where am I gonna find a free feeling
Tell me where to look for freedom
3.Belt Of Orion
I find a couple of stars in the sky
The rest are all being outshined by the light of this town
So I look down at the ground and see the stars in the sidewalk
But all it does is get me down
'Cause it ain't pretty
The heart of this city
Where everyone's just trying to impress
And yeah I pity
The ones that just try to look pretty
In other words I pity myself
Oh from the valley I look to the mountain to find my only way
out
Follow the light from the Belt of Orion
And on the corner's a man with his hand out
All I have to give him is my ever-changing smile
But in the back of my head I want to sit with him and talk with
him
But that will keep me there for a while
He is a wanderer
Well so am I
I just have my place to stay
But it makes me wonder
How if everything went under
I would still be okay
Oh from the valley I look to the mountain to find my only way
out
Follow the light from the Belt of Orion
I find a couple of stars in the sky
The rest are all being outshined
I find a couple of stars in the sky
The rest are all being outshined
4.Shirt
I am dry, I'm your shirt, and I've been hung out on a line
And I have designs so if you stain me, I will still seem fine
But really, you're just wearing me out
Yeah really, you're just wearing me out
Yeah I've been told, my momma said, I wear my heart on my sleeve
But I try to hide and roll it up, but every time it comes back
creased
And no one is gonna iron me out
No, no one is gonna straighten me out
Yeah one of these days, it's coming on
I think that I might just unfold
I'll rip the seams and tear some holes
And I'll probably get sold
But no one's gonna wear me out
No, no one's gonna wanna wear me out
Yeah one of these days, you'll put me on
I might not fit you anymore
But I won't mind, I'll always find
My way into another drawer
And no one's gonna wear me out
No, no one's gonna wanna wear me out
I am dry, I'm your shirt, and I've been hung out on a line
5.Lucky Guy
I been thinking 'bout what happened back in eighty-nine
When I was born my momma she almost died
Seem like a hell of a way to start out for me
Walk right in and cause such misery
Oh, but now everything's all right
Even though I think about dying
But, when I forget about all the things I fear
I'm a pretty lucky guy
Today I really realize
Spending most of my time hitting parties at night
Getting high climbing trees in broad daylight
I ain't never broken a bone in my life
Sticks and stones and low-pitched groans
Buddy I can tell when you're not being nice
But, when I forget about all the things I fear
I'm a pretty lucky guy
Today I really realize
Hey hey you get under my skin sometimes
When you come-a on come-a on come on and pretend to be a friend
of mine
Hey hey whenever you roll those eyes
It gets me low sometimes
When I forget about all the shit you deal
I'm a pretty lucky guy
Today I really realize
Going fifty-nine up the ninety-five
Feel the heat of the city in the summertime
I ain't never lifted a finger in my life
Sweating hard out in Liberty Park
Pay me today so that I can be free at night
But, when I forget about all the things I fear
I'm a pretty lucky guy
Lucky to be alive
Hey hey you get under my skin sometimes
When you come-a come-a come on and pretend to be a friend of
mine
Hey hey whenever you roll those eyes
It gets me low sometimes
But you know I know
I'm a pretty lucky guy
6.Lonely Lonely
I got a friend, doesn't talk to me
He doesn't tell me what is going on
He doesn't like it when I open up
Oh and I got a friend who's a lot like me
I never tell her what is going on
She's always asking me to open up
I guess I never really have the guts
Why does it get so hard sometimes
I know you wanna get high at night
Why does it get so hard why does it get so
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Remember when we were younger and
All we thought about was growing up
But we could never really grow enough
Oh and you blink an eye and you're looking back
Now what you had then is what you lack
And all you're saying is remember when
You're always trying to get back again
Why does it get so hard sometimes
I know you wanna get high at night
Why does it get so hard why does it get so
Hard sometimes I really wanna get high tonight
Why does it get so hard why does it get so
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Lonely lonely, oh it gets so
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Why does it get so hard sometimes
I know you wanna get high at night
Why does it get so hard why does it get so
Hard sometimes I really wanna get high tonight
Why does it get so hard why does it get so
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
Lonely lonely, lonely lonely
7.Punchline
A long winter and a red hot summer
I don't remember very much about that year
What I recall is a fear of falling in love
While I was
I gave everything I had to my lover
It's no wonder people felt that I disappeared
And at the end of the day all I had for myself
Was my own lonesome tears
But I made her happy
And did that gladly
But oh it don't mean a thing
Yeah all that's over now
Me and my sister went to Arizona
Seeing our mom while she was fighting her disease
And doing what everybody said she needed
So she could come home
And it was late in the night when I called you
One in the morning right outside of a motel
Just checking in to tell you I was scared
And that I felt
You didn't love me
You said you love me honey
Oh it don't mean a thing
Yeah all that's over
Now when I dream all I see
Is you being untrue to me
Telling lies, shaking hands
Having laughs over and over again
The punchline of a joke I am
Oh it don't mean a thing
Yeah all that's over
But it don't mean a thing
Yeah all that's over
But it don't mean a thing
8.Rusted Wheel
If you wanna derail this train
Bend away the track, say you love me back
The way I love you
No whistle blows
And the rhythm slows down
A train without a will, happy standing still
A rusted wheel
So come on come on come on and
Go away, take away from me your love
Because because because
It's everything I could ever need
My love it's true
'Cause I don't I don't I don't want you
To be just waiting at the station at my destination looking for
me
What keeps me rolling rolling in locomotion
Is chasing a dream blowing out steam to look for you
So come on come on come on and
Go away, take away from me your love
Because because because
It's everything I could ever need
Come on come on come on and
Go away, take away from me your love
Because because because
It's everything I could ever need
My love you see
'Cause I never never wanted to be
A rusted wheel
A rusted wheel
Covered in grass
Trying to grow fast
A rusted wheel
A rusted wheel
Nowhere else to go
No more steam to blow
A rusted wheel
So come on come on come on and
Go away, take away from me your love
Because because because
It's everything I could ever need
My love it's true
'Cause I never never never never never
Never never never never want you
'Cause I never never never never never
Never never never never want you
9.My Goodness
My goodness is a tumbleweed, blowing away from me
I neglected the garden, it wilted and it hardened
Like a lifeless bouquet I let it blow away
Blow away, hey yeah
And if I pass my goodness on the road, if I see it on the
blacktop
And if I recognize and ask to hold it
Would it take me back, Lord
Take me back, would it take me back
My love is a broken wing
And it doesn't beat
I neglected the arrow that tore into the marrow
In a feather cascade I let it blow away
Blow away, hey yeah
And if I pass my love beside the road, if I see it on the
blacktop
And if I recognize and ask to hold it
Would it take me back, Lord
Take me back, would it take me back
And if I pass my goodness on the road, if I see it on the
blacktop
And if I recognize and ask to hold it
Would it take me back, Lord
Take me back, would it take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Who would take me back
10.My Old Home (Demo)
My old home with flowers on all the tables
Where did all that go
I guess the flowers got old and died
Wilted and dried from the sun who was never that able
To sit with you while you cried
Now he's the one who's alone
Yeah I'm trying
Yeah I'm trying real hard
Trying to build this thing back up from nothing
But I'm shooting in the dark
Keep on missing the mark, yeah
Yeah but there's no doubt in my mind that I feel something
Deep in my heart
Hot on my head, yeah
We are growing older and bolder
Trying to find the thread that connects our hearts
Stretches so damn far
Forget we're apart
But now I got my head
Said I'm trying to correct
My growing list of wrongs
And I'm surprised how it got this long
And yeah I was a child
But that don't cut it anymore
Not like we're playing on any little swing set
Is the world that's spinning 'round
We get stuck to the ground, yeah
Remember when we said that we could go higher
Yeah I believed that
And I feel it coming on
It's why I wrote this song, yeah
11.Losers
There will always be someone better than you
Even if you're the best
So let's stop the competition now
Or we will both be losers
And I'm ashamed I ever tried to be higher than the rest
But brother I am not alone
We've all tried to be on top of the world somehow
'Cause we have all been losers
I don't wanna be laid down
No I don't wanna die knowing
That I spent so much time when I was young
Just trying to be the winner
So I wanna make it clear now
I wanna make it known
That I don't care about any of that shit no more
Don't care about being a winner
Or being smooth with women
Or going out on Fridays
Being the life of parties
No, no more, no
There will always be someone worse than you
Sister don't let it get to your head
'Cause you won't be on top of the world so long
In constant competition
This ain't about no one in particular
But I could list a few
I'm removing myself from the queue
Don't care about being a winner
Or being smooth with women
Or going out on Fridays
Being the life of parties
Don't care about being harder
Or being Daddy's favorite
Or if you think I'm a mimic
Or if I am a loser
Don't care about being a winner
Or being smooth with women
Or going out on Fridays
Being the life of parties
Don't care about being harder
Or being Daddy's favorite
Or if you think I'm a mimic
Or if I am a loser
No, no more
No more
No more
No more
No more
No more
12.Fasten You To Me
If I had to choose one
Person to keep from
Falling off the earth to
Stay here with me
I'd hold on to you my
Foot tied to a tree you'd
Bid farewell to falling friends I'd
Fasten you to me
Fasten you to me
Held down by the roots of a tree
The air would settle down
Our feet would meet the ground
You'd find that I was not so frightened
We would get along
You would sing me songs
And I would think of gentle harmonies
Carried by the breeze
We'd get mad and take it out on one another
Just 'cause there'd be no one else around
I would want to fight you even though you're much bigger
You would laugh until I settled down
I would say you're lucky I calmed down
You'd wait till my senses came around
If I had to choose one
Person to keep from
Falling off the earth to
Stay here with me
I'd hold on to you my
Foot tied to a tree you'd
Bid farewell to falling friends I'd
Fasten you to me
Fasten you to me
Fasten you to me
I'd fasten you to me
Fasten you to me
Held down by the roots of a tree
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