Already Free

The Derek Trucks Band Already Free Lyrics
1.Down In The Flood

Lyricist:Bob Dylan

Crash on the levee, mama
Water's gonna overflow
Swamps gonna rise
And no boats gonna row

Now you can train on down
To William's Point
You can bust your feet
You can rock this joint

But mama, ain't you gonna
Miss your best friend now?
Gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow

Now don't you try and move me
You're just gonna lose
There's a crash on the levee
And mama, you've been refused

Well, it's sugar for sugar
Salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault

Oh mama, ain't you gonna
Miss your best friend now?
Gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow

Well, that high tide's risin'
Mama, don't you let me down
Pack up your suitcase
Mama, don't you make a sound

Now it's king for king
And queen for queen
Gonna be the meanest flood
That anybody's ever seen

Oh mama, ain't you gonna
Miss your best friend now?
You're just gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow


2.Something To Make You Happy

I see the people
Starvin' in rags
I see my brother
Lyin' down with a pain
I hear the babies cryin'
To their Father God
Askin' Him why you lettin' me born into this world
Goodbye sorrow's rain
I turned around
And I looked at you my darlin'
If we don't stand together they'll try to make us stand alone

Pre-chorus:
It's strange, it's a wonder but it's true
Every time I look at you
There's something I got to do

Chorus:
Something to make you happy
Come on just let me know
If there's nothing to make you happy
Just say the word and I'll go

I see the battle lines
Forming slowly
I see a silence fall
As the winners and the losers take their stand
I turned around
And I hear you call me darlin'
If we don't spread love through the land
It'll sure enough be dry

Pre-chorus/chorus


3.Maybe This Time

Lyricist:Doyle Bramhall Ii, Derek Trucks

My mind is weary and I'm losing sight
If loving you is worth the fight
Sometimes I can see it
But I don't want no one else, ooh

A lesser woman would have been long gone
You stuck around and showed me when I was wrong
You said, 'Hey, think about it, ain't no doubt about it
That it's always darker just before the dawn'

If you feel the same then don't walk away, yeah
And we'll start again maybe this time

The sun is rising and the air feels clear
It's not quite right but you know we're getting near
Keep on pushing me just might get it right

Home, home, everybody makes mistakes sometimes
Home, home, some people quit too soon
Home, home, nobody else wants to work it out
Home, home, I'm workin' out just to see you do

If you feel the same we don't walk away, yeah
It won't feel the same, same as it used to be
If you feel the same then don't walk away, yeah
And we'll start again maybe this time


4.Sweet Inspiration

Lyricist:Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn

I need your sweet inspiration
I need you here on my mind every hour of the day
Without your sweet inspiration
The lonely hours of the night just don't go my way

A man in love needs sweet inspiration
And honey that's all I ask, that's all I ask from you
I gotta have sweet inspiration
You know there's just no telling what a satisfied man might do

If I'm out in the rain baby, in a bad situation
I just reach back in my mind to find sweet, sweet inspiration

Sweet, oh what a power
And I've got the power every hour in the day
I need your sweet inspiration
To go on livin', to keep on givin' this way

Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration

Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration
Sweet, sweet inspiration


5.Don't Miss Me

She got high on lovin'
Sorry but I'm passing through
Maybe I got a toothpick
In the bottom of my walkin' shoes
This ain't a town for tear drops
Or tattoo regrets
Not yet

Sneakin' out the back way
In the middle of a starry night
Ain't gonna be remembered
For all the things that I did right
Can't say I need you, can't say I don't
But I won't

Ain't no need to miss me when I'm gone
Ain't no need to miss me when I'm gone
Ain't no need to miss me when I'm gone
Ain't no need to miss me when I'm gone
I wouldn't have very long


6.Get What You Deserve

Lyricist:Doyle Bramhall Ii, Michael Mattison, Derek Trucks

Did you drop your baby at the bottom of the blues?
Well, everybody's gotta suffer for all the things you choose
Well, I need you sweetie, I ain't got the nerve
You can do what you please but you get what you deserve

Don't know if they told ya the year that I come from
They were talkin' 'bout a revolution, talking about Vietnam
Well, you can't quite remember, baby ain't you heard?
You can do what you please but you get what you deserve

Sooner or later some kind of savior
Is gonna come down through the roof
Do me a favor let me off easy when you do

I don't need no doctor, I don't need no truth
I'm goin' to California, honey I'm bulletproof
Just a strange believer runnin' on the word
Well, do what you please but you get what you deserve, oh yeah

(Get what you deserve)
Gonna get what you deserve
(Get what you deserve)
Get what you deserve
(Get what you deserve)
Ow, gonna get what you deserve

(Get what you deserve)
Yeah, get what you, oh get what you
(Get what you deserve)
Get what you deserve
(Get what you deserve)


7.Our Love

Lyricist:Doyle Bramhall Ii, Derek Trucks

I know, know what it's like on my own
Things have been wrong but I don't want to be alone again
Sometimes time ain't always on our side
You can't let fate pass you by but if you want me to wait for
you

You know our love is crazy
Crazy is beautiful
I know our love is crazy
Nowhere I'd rather be

I won't let our world slip away
If you can be strong for a day we both know I've been guilty
before
You give more than you maybe should
While I sit and I hope you could take a breath that's for
yourself

We know our love is crazy
It's what we do it for
I know your love is crazy
Know where you get it from

Crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful
Crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful
Crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful, crazy is beautiful

We know our love is crazy
And what we do it for
I know your love is crazy
I know where you get it from, crazy


8.Down Don't Bother Me

You send up the ladder
Down without a rope
Was the only time it mattered
Ow, when I was broke

Then you're my second nature
A-coming over me
And though I might be shakin'
I'm standing on my feet

Goin' 'round in circles
Pickin' out a cue
Travelin' with no memory
Ow, in my shoe

Down don't bother me
If the music say
You can take a picture baby
Time won't care
And you're my second nature
A-coming over me
And though I might be shakin'

Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more


9.Days Is Almost Gone

Was a time when I was younger
I saw things get out of hand
Now I'm older in the story
I realize where I been
It's time I finally said

These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
Don't be late, 'cause the sun won't wait

Takin' time and patience
To turn ourselves around
And baby it's just learning
To live with what we found
I love to hear the sound

When you wait too long
To get it right
Life can pass you by
The second chance
Could be your last
I'm reaching for the light
Yes I am

These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
Don't be late, 'cause the sun won't wait


10.Back Where I Started

Lyricist:Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks

Dancing backwards wound up in another place and time
No way of knowing where I was headed to
Maybe I was running away like always
Sure wasn't ready for something new

How did I wander back where I started?
I'm so glad I found you there

Time was wasting away like water through my hands
And blood was dripping from my stone
Caught up in the motion, motion that is every man
Spinning out of control

How did I wander back to where I started?
I'm so glad I found you there
Yes, I'm so glad I found you there

Seems like I've known you for a thousand years
Seems like I've watched you grow from a child
It's hard to remember the first time I saw your face
With the moonlight in your smile

How did I wander back where I started?
And I'm so glad I found you there
I'm so glad I found you there
Oh, I'm so glad I found you there
And I'm so glad I found you there


11.I Know

I wanna know how it feels to be kissed
Cold chills running up and down my spine
I wanna know how it feels to be talked to
Until words drive me stoned out my mind

I know how it feels to be lonely
I know how it feels to be blue
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I spend my time loving you

I wanna know how it feels to be needed
I wanna know by the end of the night
I wanna know how it feels to have a girl
Who loves me and treats me just right

I know how it feels to be cheated on
I know how it feels to be blue
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I spend my time loving you

Well I know there's pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
That was such a long time ago
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I won't be blue anymore

Hold on, baby hold on.
Love me, try love me
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know how it feels
To be loved


12.Already Free

I am my father's child
Am my father's child
Train that's bound for nowhere
Runnin' free and wild
I am my father's child

The world has passed me by
World has passed me by
See the comin' shadows
Ain't got time to cry
The world has passed me by

I am already free
Am already free
Goin' be like Christmas
When the devil come for me
Am already free


13.Ballad Of The Chicken Robber

Pistol's in the piss pot
Rooster's in the pie
All I need you to do for me
Is remember this alibi
Just remember

Sixty-nine in Chino
I didn't mean to shoot no dog
I worked alone, I'm a broken soul
Come down-state for a job
For a job

Come on Miss Lorena
I love to hear you sing
Pass me a wing

Run from Sacramento
Run from all I got
So we were drunk on 'bama Curtis
When they rolled that chicken lot
When they rolled that lot


14.Swamp Raga


15.Long Time Man

Make a long time man feel bad
Make a long time man feel bad
Yes the worst old feeling that I ever had
When I can't get a letter from home

My mother won't write for me
My mother won't write for me
Won't write no letter, won't send a word
Make a long time man fee bad

Yeah Berta, d'you cry 'bout a dime
Berta, would you cry 'bout a dime
If you cry 'bout a nickel, you die 'bout a dime
Make a long time man feel bad

Make a long time man feel bad
Make a long time man feel bad
It's the worst old feeling that I ever had
Make a long time man feel bad

Make a long time man feel bad
It makes a long time man feel bad
So bad, so bad, so bad, so bad
Oh, so bad
Mmm, so bad