1.All Hail
Come on downto where those tracks cross high street
You gonna watch the whole world go insane
See the lighters hit the rocks in the bushes
Like the stars are comin down like rain
Here she comes
Just a skin and bones skeleton
She's food for the crack cocaine
She got a baby
Livin' right outside the city
Man she don't even remember his name
Well his name is Adolf Hitler Albert Einstein Jesse James
All hail
All hail
To the greatest of sales
Everything insides got to be sold
All hail
All hail
Is to work or do jail
Man they're closin them doors on the world
Laugh if you want to
Really is kinda funny
'Cause the world is a car
And you're the crash test dummy
Earth stampedin now
Fences gone
Television is always on
And it says
'Save the children, but drop the bomb'
Replace the word right now
With the word wrong
Hey there's a big sale on tuesday
Get it before it's gone
Get a picture with the four horsemen
For a nominal sum
Now that they got everything
They like to sell you some
All hail
All hail
To the greatest of sales
'Cause everything inside got to be sold
All hail
All hail
'Cause it's to work or do jail
Man they're closin' their doors on the world
Take this pill now,
Put it on your tongue
Keep you actin'
Just like everyone
Keeps you from feelin'
Good bad ugly crazy dumb
It ain't a drug god-dammit
I'd give it to my only son
Well no one's gonna get arrested
No one's havin' any fun
Doctors orders 'ya feel yer heart beatin？
Go ahead and take ya one'
Now yer dumber than a singin' saw
Playin uncomfortably numb
It's a thorazine work party
With free flouride bubble gum
Now you wander like a zombie
Out in the midday sun
All hail
All hail
To the greatest of sales
Everything you've got's got to be sold
All hail
All hail
'Cause it's to work or do jail
Man they're closin' them doors
Yea they're closin' them doors
Yea they're closin' them doors on the world
2.Do Wrong Right
I'd rather be a devil living life on a tear
Than be an angel at a church affair
Like electric sound in the deep of the night
Burnin down the house along with everything in sight
I ain't angry or a nut just to give you people some
Quiet in the head ain't no way to get it done
If you're gonna raise a ruckus, one word of advice
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
CHORUS：
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
You wanna make a little mess, you wanna make a little crime
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
Ride around the lamb to all the little towns
While my blood gets boiling when that racket buckles loud
Fire up the motors, we got all of us in
Spread the red all over town and do it all again
Well most things that I know, I didn't learn in class
The road don't go forever, so ride it while it lasts
If you're gonna raise a ruckus, one word of advice
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
(Chorus)
I'd rather be a devil in a life on a tale
Than be an angel at a church of hell
Like electric sound in the deep of the night
Burnin down the house along with everything in sight
I'm an electric demon son with a feelin and a right
We lay it down tonight, yeah, we lay it down tonight
If you're gonna raise a ruckus, one word of advise
If you're gonna do wrong better do wrong right
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
3.Gracefully Facedown
Lately things ain't been going my way
Consequently I been drinkin nearly every day
It's hard to keep your head up when they're knockin' you down
So I been makin' that old go-round
Drinkin' bottom shelf bourbon to ease my mind
Seems to work alright 'till closing time
But you know you're gonna come down every night
And there ain't know way you'll ever feel satisfied
Ain't that hard to figure where to begin
It's Friday night so I'm rushing in
Like a fool I get it anywhere I can
(Chorus)
Well I've been having a hard time
Walkin' a straight line
Seeing two of every single neon sign
Well now, you'll find me downtown
Gracefully face down
Just wishing I could feel alright
Well lately I've been walking 'round With eyes closed
It seems like I've been headed down the wrong road
Thought I'd find my way by now
But I still got lost somehow
You see, shots fall down from Heaven above
You might lose a friend, you might fall in love
But you know you're gonna come down every night
And there ain't no way you'll ever feel satisfied
Six in the morning 'till your dying day
It's straight bad news and bills to pay
But come five o'clock you're feeling good again
(Chorus)
Well I've been having a hard time
Walkin' a straight line
Seeing two of every single neon sign
Well now, you'll find me downtown
Gracefully face down
Just wishing I could feel alright
Well I been so high I hit my head on the ground
Sat up from the floor seen the room spin 'round
But when you squint real hard through the bottom of the bottle
Things really don't look so bad
You drink cheap malt liquor from a forty-ounce bottle
Fifth of bourbon, some pills if you got 'em
But you know you're gonna come down every night
And there ain't no way you'll ever feel satisfied
There's years of my life I don't remember at all
Like one bright evening I can barely recall
there was a sick situation in a bar-room bathroom stall
(Chorus)
Well I've been having a hard time
Walkin' a straight line
Seeing two of every single neon sign
Well now, you'll find me downtown
Gracefully face down
Just wishing I could feel alright
4.For Good Again
Gather around you people now to the tale that I tell
About the last time my friend moved he decided to move to hell
They call it Creslawn California down there USA
For God and his wisdom burned it down one beautiful day
He could not sleep for restlessness, downtown he went
Where he ran into some rednecks looking to sexually experiment
Me and this man had a band once and we were called The Shapes
You probably never heard of us and that really is okay
We drank and we threw up sometimes we practiced and played
Our drummer couldn't figure out whether he was straight or he
was gay
We went on tour within walking distance of our house
Maybe that is why no one knew what our sound was all about
Thats why I say gather around you people now
Get your money out to lend
We're all leaving town for good again
For good again
We drink up at the high school by the stairs on the hill
Everything looked beautiful with enough booze and pills
It was nice to know that no one in their right mind would drop
by
Just bitch about some bull now and the lights lit up the sky
You'd never understand the things my friend Eric put us through
He had this Powepoint presentation about this girl he want to do
Well now we were all such assholes but who was keeping score
Most the people who still hate us they don't live here anymore
Thank God I don't live here anymore
Thats why I say gather around you people now
Get your money out to lend
We're all leaving town for good again
For good again
We lived in the house and it was down on Lincoln street
We payed the bills now and they turned out the heat
I lived up in the attic right above the bathroom
When I could pay my rent-man illegal drugs thats exactly what I
do
We barbecued in that alley until pa poisoned me with raw meat
Sometimes I come home at 4 AM and go face down in the streets
It was a low level existence thats what you proper people'd say
But I wrote songs in that attic that I now get paid to play
So if you don't like people who live in attics now might be the
time to say
Cuz' everybody who is anybody, in my opinion,
at one time lived in somebody's hallway
Thats why I say gather around you people now
Get your money out to lend
We're all leaving town for good again
For good again
Thats why I say gather around you people now
Get your money out to lend
We're all leaving town for good again
For good again (3x)
5.Statesboro Blues
Wake up, Mama,turn your lamp down low
Won't you wake up, Mama, turn your lamp down low
Do you have the nerve to drive me from your door？
I said that gate left Savannah, Lord, it could not stop
You should have seen that colored fireman when he got that
boiler hot
Reach over in the corner mama, won't you hand me my travelling
shoes？
Well lord, my god, I got me them Statesboro blues.
Well my mama died and left me reckless
Said my papa died and left me wild, wild, wild
Well my mama died and left me reckless
Papa died and left me wild
see I ain't good-lookin' but I'm someone's angel child
I said mama tell your papa,
Papa tell your sister,
Sister tell your uncle
We're goin' up the country
Wouldn't you like to go？
We're gonna do one for background
then do two or three more.
I said that gate left Savannah, lord it could not stop
You should have seen that colored fireman when he got that
boiler hot
reach over in the corner mama, won't you hand me my travelling
shoes？
Well lord, my god, I got me them Statesboro blues.
Yeah lord, my god, I got me them Statesboro blues.
6.Johnson Family
Born to a good father I have no excuse
I could say I blame someone but what would be the use
When I learn to travel now is when I learn to steal
To ride without a ticket now along the lines of steel
Oh you don't know the things I have seen
Twenty years out on the road with the Johnson Family
Oh you don't know the cages I have seen
Twenty years in and out of the Johnson Family
I'd harnessed stones and took them to the fence
I found my heart by moved the shop and always made the rent
When I met old George now he showed me to the box
Fresh out the night oh from the day now the money never stops
Oh you can't know the cages I have seen
In and out over the years of the Johnson Family
Oh you can't know the troubles I have seen
Twenty years out on the road with the Johnson Family
Call me a thief and a liar now you know you would be right
Straight as an arrow I sit here tonight
All my debts too heavy boys I cannot pay them down
I pawn my watch and take a walk down to the sea to drown
Oh you can't know the things I have seen
Twenty years out on the road with the Johnson Family
Oh you can't know the cages I have seen
Twenty years out on the road with the Johnson Family
7.Poison Trees
The roots of the matter run miles deep＊
This is the era of eternal sleep.
Please everybody but, please be advised, nothings'..going away
Because you're closing your eyes
This is the harvest of some rotten seas.
This surely isn't any mystery.
This is the fruit off of the poison trees
You better ask yourself what you believe.
I see a Storm it is coming down and I can feel my bones creak.
I know you can feel it to, but your just too scared,
Are you just too scared to speak
The wire is tapped now and crackling hot.
Words from a burning screen will make your stomach knot.
Feel the hopelessness and lock the door.
Sweet safety praise the lord.
The loud voices got the signals locked.
All the past heroes now outlined in chalk.
Well that'll teach the world to not walk the walk.
Show your face out in the light and hear the.. pistols pop,
Well..
This is the harvest of some rotten seas.
This surely isn't any mystery.
This is the fruit off of the poison trees
You better ask yourself what you believe.
I see a Storm is coming now and I can feel it in my bones
I know you can feel it to, you think that your,
You think that your all alone
Old Jackets leave you face down on the bricks,
This new dog knows some terrible tricks.
Turn the cameras off and it doesn't exist,
That's that's a lesson well learned back in 1966
This is the harvest of some rotten seas.
This surely isn't any mystery.
This is the fruit off of the poison trees
You better ask yourself what you believe.
I see a Storm it is coming down and I can feel it in my bones.
I know you can feel it to, are you just too scared,
are you just too scared to speak.
8.Help Yourself
Even the devil was an angel before he tried to rush the throne
Lord, they threw him down in Hell there all alone
Now he builds a castle made out of the sinners bones
You'd be angry too if you could never go home
I ain't no preacher man, no preacher man's son
I've done some bad things but I like to have my fun
There's a thousand ways to heaven, a thousand ways to hell, but
they do say the good lord helps those that help themselves, so
help yourself
Old man Nicodemus could not make his heart believe But he could
see that Jesus had some tricks up his sleeve
He said 'oh man, Jesus, I can't do things your way, but i can
see you work for somebody big, so I'm backing your play'
Old man Nicodemus, they say his pockets were deep, so on the day
the romans decided to put Jesus to sleep, Jesus could not care
for money now or any such thing, But old man Nicodemus paid to
have Jesus buried like a king
Now, I ain't no preacher, no preacher man's son. I've done some
bad things but i like to have my fun, There's a thousand ways to
heaven, a thousand ways to hell, but they do say the good lord
helps those that help themselves, so help yourself
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, Old Noah
built a boat on the driest of days and everybody in the old
neighborhood said Noah was insane, I guess when the waters
receded now the truth was laid
I ain't no preacher man, No preacher man's son. I've done some
bad things, but i like to have my fun, there's a thousand ways
to heaven, a thousand ways to hell, but I do say the good lord
helps those that help themselves, so help yourself
Moses was a great man, he parted the waters of the red sea, Down
the road to Egypt, made sure the slaves were free.
Well, he could speak to god they say, yes indeed, but the sound
of his voice would have made our poor ears bleed
Moses, he had an army, I tell ya, all his own, they stood in
circles outside his very home and when the Pharohs got to
killing they left old Moses alone, But the romans drove the
nails through old Jesus' bones
Well, now I ain't no preacher man, No preacher man's son. I've
done some bad things, but i like to have my fun, why they got
Jesus now, and not Moses, None can tell. But they say the good
lord helps those who help themselves, so help yourself now.
9.Working Mans Blues
They say times are gettin' hard on a workin' man
Well they say times are gettin' hard on a workin' man
I don't care what time it is
I want what's mine and not what's his
I wanna pull my wagon with my own two hands
They say there's not near enough here to go around
They say there's not near enough here to go around
I don't mind sharin' bread and supper
But when it comes to tobacco it's each man's own
And if you brought your own bottle,
Come on and sit right down
Sometimes it seems like everybody wants to bring you down
Yeah sometimes it seems like everybody wants to bring you down
Don't go home and slash your wrists
Come out fightin' with both your fists
I know you don't believe me,
But things sure could turn around
Seems like I've been down this lonesome road before
Seems like I've been down this lonesome road before
Sometimes I get to movin' and I fall down flat
You know you I took a beatin' but I ain't dyin' yet
Something keeps me gettin' up and coming back for more
Well they say times are gettin' hard on a workin' man
Yeah they say times are gettin' hard on a workin' man
I don't care what time it is
I want what's mine and not what's his
I wanna pull my wagon with my own two hands
I wanna pull my wagon with my own two hands
10.Aces And Twos
Verse
In my dreams I laugh and smoke
Everybody screams when I tell them jokes
Well now I like to gamble but I sure don't ever lose
Got a closet full of pin striped three piece suits
Chorus
I tell ya now, I pull aces
You pull twos
Come on now, when I wake up I don't know what to do
Verse
I battle demons in the dead of the night
I don't come home until the sun shines bright
Well now I walk with Jesus
Is he walking with me？
So hard to tell when everybody's on the same streets
Chorus
I tell ya now, I pull aces
He pulls twos
Come on now, when I wake up I don't know what to do
Verse
I drive a Cadillac a million miles long
In the back you can't hear my radio on
I only woke up to give a spoonful to you
But in my dreams a spoonful sure won't do
Chorus
I tell ya now, I pull aces
He does too
Come on now, when I wake up I don't know what to do
Verse
I battle demons in the dead of the night
I don't come home until the sun shines bright
I walk with Jesus
Is he walking with me？
It's so hard to tell when everybody's on the same streets
Chorus
I tell ya now, I pull aces
He does too
Come on now, when I wake up I don't know what to do
11.Cheap Reward
Feel so loose tonight, I might fall to pieces
Be prepared to sweep me out the door
Now I might be horizontal by time the music ceases
Yes, I get acquainted with the floor
Well, I been trying to get away from things I always do
Hello, floorboard, once again and how are you
Lip service, that's all you'll ever get from me
How could you believe I'd take you seriously
Your cheap reward, your blackmail, your comical rage
Just remember, you'll only be the boss as long as you pay my
wage
Lip service, that's all you'll ever get from me
How could you believe I'd take you seriously
Your cheap reward, your blackmail, your comical rage
Just remember, you'll only be the boss as long as you pay my
wage
All the signs point on this road, they point one way
Don't act like you're above me, just look at your shoes
Now I'll turn the light out, 'cause there's nothing to see
It's all been lost before, so there's nothing to lose
Oh, but you could say that you love me so painlessly
I woulda done the same for you, but you said to me
Lip service, that's all you'll ever get from me
How could you believe I'd take you seriously
Your cheap reward, your blackmail, your comical rage
Just remember, you'll only be the boss as long as you pay my
wage
12.Car Wreck
He grew up in a one horse town＊
Wasn't much to do since all the bars had closed down.
He'd stare up to the stars sometimes when no one was around,
And he'd dream of getting out.
So he bought himself a pickup truck that was covered up in rust,
He found a buddy to fill the shotgun seat that was someone he
could trust,
And they hit the gas and headed west out to the setting sun,
When the dust had cleared, they was gone.
Well leavin' just came natural,
That's the way it seemed to him.
He'd been doing it so long that's the way he'd always been,
And you can find him in some hotel room with the television on.
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on.
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the
dawn,
But in the morning, in the morning when you wake up he'll be
gone.
So he met a girl in a town along the way,
She had beautiful brown eyes and a place that he could stay.
So he fell in love and she fell in love in kind,
It was so perfect that of course he lost his mind.
He snuck out of the kitchen one day before the dawn,
She called out after him and ran across the lawn,
And he said some things that he didn't mean,
That he'd best be travelin' on,
She shed some tears and he was gone.
Well leavin' just came natural,
That's the way it seemed to him.
He'd been doing it so long that's the way he'd always been,
And you can find him in some hotel room with the television on.
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on.
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the
dawn,
But in the morning, in the morning when you wake up he'll be
gone.
Eighteen years later and fifteen-hundred miles from home,
He can't shake her from his mind though the whiskey soaks his
bones.
He heads out on a back road in the middle of the night,
Pedal to the metal, you know he timed that curve just right.
But some bridges you cross over but the rest you've got to burn,
He may have lost the road but I know he made his turn,
And as we pulled him from the wreckage I promised him a song,
'cause it was clear that he was gone.
Well leavin' just came natural,
That's the way it seemed to him.
He'd been doing it so long that's the way he'd always been,
And you can find him in some hotel with the television on,
He might be high and he'll probably ramble on.
You can laugh beneath fluorescent lights and drink until the
dawn,
But in the morning, in the morning when you wake up he'll be
gone.
In the morning, in the morning when you wake up he'll be gone.
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