Unreleased Songs

Whiskeytown Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Hard Luck Story

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Well, I was thinking that I shoulda
But I didn't ever leave you but baby, I'm leavin' tonight
And theres a trucker drinking coffee in the station
Who can give me a ride

Well, I was thinking about a heading down to
Mobile, Alabama and that was just last Saturday night
Well, I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight

'Cause I got a bucket full of tears and a hard luck story
Theres a bad moon rising behind
And I swore it to your daddy that I loved you
But I changed my mind

Well, I'm a fast talking, hell raising, son of a bitch
And I'm a sinner and I know how to fight
And I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight

'Cause I got a bucket full of tears and a hard luck story
And there's a bad moon rising behind
And I swore it to your daddy that I loved you
But I changed my mind

Well, I'm a fast talking, hell raising, son of a bitch
And I'm a sinner and I know how to fight
'Cause I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight

Well, I was sitting, I was drinking on a barstool
Thinking how true love becomes a lie
And I never should have left you but I had to
And I betcha there's a man there with you tonight

And I swore it to your daddy
That I missed you, but I didn't
If I came back it wouldn't be right
'Cause I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight


2.Wither, I'm A Flower

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower

So city is my sister
And country is your brother
Learn to lose your battles
Cryin' on a shoulder

Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
It's so small against the years

Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower

Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower


3.To Be Evil

To be evil is to be scared
Withholding all the things to sacred to be shared
Too many vultures and things to keep alive
Holding ransom on my piece of mind
That God is gonna give to me, in time

To be evil is to be blessed
With the sweet sin, self-duress
That only love can quarantine
Too many vultures and songs I got to sing
To keep me locked into a prayer
That God is gonna take us there
While I'm waiting here online
Feeling evil
All the while

1-2-3-4 everything is beautiful
5-6-7-8 gotta love to learn to hate
A-B-C-D I'm a little old machine
L-O-V-Es gonna be the death of me

I'm not evil
I'm just scared


4.Paper Moon

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

I go walking under a paper moon
All the birds are singing
Singing you a pretty tune
All the constellations and all the stars above
They all start to whistling
They start singing along

The world is not a monster
And I'm not scared at all
Floating through your heavens
The world is in my arms

Oh, rainy day
Don't follow me
â~Cause I'm her baby doll
And she's my cup of tea

I go walking under a paper moon
And my eyes are made of crystals
Plastic flowers bloom
All the leaves are changing
And the skies are blue
All the seasons of distraction
Can't take the smile god's given you

The world is but a monster
And I'm not scared at all
I'm floating through the heavens
The world is in my arms

Oh, rainy day
Don't follow me
â~Cause I'm her baby doll
She's my cup of tea

Love takes care of love
Hate just burns you out


5.16 Days

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Got sixteen days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
Should have wore my wedding ring

Got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side

Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away

Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away

Got sixteen days
Got a bottle and a rosary
God, I wish that you were close to me
I guess I owe you an apology

Got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side

Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away

Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away

Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up in ribbons bows and hearts
Old tin cups and little paper dolls
All wrapped up in the ribbons of your heart

I got sixteen days
Sixteen days
I got sixteen days
It's like a fool I am


6.Houses on the Hill

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Well, I found a bunch of letters
They were written for the fellow
Who broke your momma's heart
And the envelope folds
Smelled of her ancient perfume

I'll bet she didn't know
How to respond to forty blankets of snow
Caught him out wandering alone
With no place to go

There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
There were bottles and pills
That were easy to buy
To keep her warm
From the oncoming storm

Well, I found them in the
North-west corner of the attic
In a box labeled 'Tinsel and Lights'
Didn't know what I was looking for
Maybe just a blanket or artifacts

Eisenhower sent him to war
He kept her picture in his pocket
That was closest to his heart
And when he hit shore
It must have been a target
For the gunner-men

There were stars in the sky
There were bunkers on the hill
And there were caskets to fill
Where he would lie
Shrouded in the red, white
And blue with the stripes

There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
There were bottles and pills
That were easy to buy
To keep her warm
From the oncoming storm


7.Turn Around

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Want to cross
But I don't think I can
Its too weak here
Even where I stand

Come here darling
Let me see you hold my hand
So we can mend
Your broken halo

All I want from you
Well all I want from you
Is for you to turn around
Turn around

Wanted to damage
So I damaged it some
We used to have it all
Now I just got some

The silence, perfections, mysteries
All easy to fall from your lips
All the while lies were told to me
In shapeless secrets

When all I want from you
All I want from you
Is for you to turn around
Turn around, turn around, turn around

Can't you turn around?
Can't you turn around?
Can't you turn around?
Why can't you turn around?

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around


8.Avenues

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Know the cops here
They can't run down to your house
Sometimes I'll sit and wish
I were somewhere else

So let's dim the daylights for us
Sweethearts that we are
Sometimes I find myself
Still lying in your arms

All the sweethearts of the world
Are out dancing in the places
Where me and all my friends
Go to hide our faces

Avenues run one way
Streets they run the same
Something in the air here
Still keeps me away

Though the cops here
They can't take me to your house
I get directions and pretend
I was somewhere else

All the sweethearts of the world
Are out littering the bars
And I am still avenues from
Any place you are

You know avenues run one way
The streets they run the same
It's going to take a lot of shit for me
To stay away


9.Inn Town

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Parking lot, movie screen
I can't feel anything
Cigarettes, beat up TV
I can't feel anything

Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now

Hang around with the people
That I use to be
Hang around on a corner
Waiting to go, have a seat

Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now

50 cents or a dollar three
I don't owe you anything
Spent a life on a heart that would
Rather not feel anything

I can try
I can see
I can want it to be
I can laugh
(I can laugh)
I can feel
(I can feel)
I can say anything without dreaming

Now that I, I'm inn town
I, I'm inn town

Hang around with the people
We use to be
We hang around on a corner
Waiting to go, have a seat

And I can try
I can see
I can want it to be
I can laugh
(I can laugh)
I can feel
(I can feel)
I can say anything that seems real
It's just like a dream
(Like a dream)

I can feel
(I can feel)
I can laugh
I can want it to still to be real
It's a dream I have had
It's the last

Now it seems
Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now
Now that I, I'm inn town
Now that I, I'm inn town


10.Yesterday's News

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Well travellin' to the point that I, I can't stop it
Get so familiar, never get enough
Talk about it all the time, just drop it
Damage on your pretty little eyes says it all

I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
Standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time

Well, yesterday's news is what I have been readin'
See you at the Comet and I end up needin'
Know if you were thinkin' it, it could have been
If it was nothin' it's 'cause nothin's what you did

I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
Standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time

Well, I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
I'm standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I
understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time


11.Don't Be Sad

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly, James Iha

Seen a lot of things we didn't wanna see
But I'm glad we did
I know a lot of times we fell out of line
But we fell back in

I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad

It took a lot time for us
To find the words we'd mean
We spent a lot time before our dimes run out
Nickel please

I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad
Don't be sad, don't be sad

'Cause we won't have to live this way forever
It's hard to compromise the things we have
Don't be sad, don't be sad

Talk to one to have faith
Money can not erase

I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad
Don't be sad

Talk to one to have faith
Money can not erase


12.Sit & Listen to the Rain

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

Sit around, dream away the place I'm from
Used to feel so much now I just feel numb
Could go out tonight but I ain't sure what for
Call a friend or two I don't know anymore

Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain

Gonna ride down to the river where it runs
Gonna watch TV and pray for decent reruns
Sit around and dream away what I've become
Used to feel so much now I just feel dumb

Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain

I'll never understand this emptiness
I'll never really try to understand, I guess
I'll never understand this emptiness
I'll never really try and understand
Try and understand, I guess

Sit around, dream away the place I'm from
Used to feel so much now I just feel dumb
Could go out tonight but I ain't sure what for
Call a friend or two I don't know anymore

Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain


13.Under Your Breath

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly

Hangin' in the underground
Before a train back out of town, away from you
All the lights disappear
In the tunnels way down here, it's quite a view

Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
Then I wouldn't hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath

Locked away in your room
On the phone with someone who, she thinks out loud
Thought she found the right to leave
Think of the things you used to need and I'd run out

Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
But I hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath

Anything that you put on me
All the things your head needs, you believe
Read my mind 'cause I can't say anything
The sick heart potion, two parts pain one part true again

Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
But I hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath


14.Ballad of Carol Lynn

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly

Lovin' you has gotten weird
You'll see the sun hanging low down by your window
And all the rain left in the world
Won't bring you home again
Oh, Carol Lynn

Trusting you has gotten strange
You'll close the door when the cold has gotten in
And all the love left in the world
Won't keep you warm again
Oh, Carol Lynn

When you need a friend to be there for you
I won't be one who will help you out
And when you need someone who can let you in
You can count me out
Oh, Carol Lynn

When your life has worn you out
You'll have the past left for you to think about
And all the money in the world
Can't take you back again
Oh, Carol Lynn
Oh, Carol Lynn


15.Jacksonville Skyline

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

The banks of the river run through my hometown
As a boy I ran the dirt roads and I scraped my knees
Well, they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners

The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town

Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well, I floated down main street, pools of car lights
Overcame me wishing, I was still back home

The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town

Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky, if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime

I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was unable to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it, seem like stars


16.16 Days (Baseball Park Sessions)

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

I got sixteen days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
You should have wore my wedding ring

I got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side

The ghost has got me running
The ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
The ghost has got me running
The ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you

I got sixteen days
Got a Bible and a Rosary
God I wish that you were close to me
I guess I owe you an apology

I got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side

The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away

Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up in ribbons bows and hearts
Old tin cups and little paper dolls
All wrapped up in the ribbons of your heart

The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you, yeah
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Yeah away from you, away from you, away

I got sixteen days
I got sixteen days
Oh I got


17.Crazy About You

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

Trust is a weird thing
Make you crazy
Make you jealous
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing

And I guess I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
'Cause you won't even let me through

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you

And love is a wonderful thing
Make you wanna
Make you need to
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing

Baby, I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
'Cause you won't even let me through

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you

Baby, I want you
Honey, I need you
I know you want to
I can feel you

And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you


18.Easy Hearts

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary

Put the houses in a row
On the streets we used to know
And all the things out in the yard
Beckoning there to and fro

And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've an easy heart

And from the windows of your house
Reflects back on yourself
And it gets you wonderin'
If it means anything

And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've had a pretty hard life
I've had a pretty hard life for such an easy heart

You move away when you're young
They take away where you're from
And all the things out in the trees
Fall away into the breeze

And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've had a pretty hard life
I've had a pretty hard life for such an easy heart

Easy heart
Easy heart
Easy heart
...


19.If He Can't Have You

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Hang a picture up on your wall
Tighten all the nails so it don't fall
In this picture, could have been a picture of my face
Something painful, went and took its place

If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown

Drink your coffee in the morning
And at night, go and drink your beer
All along you don't feel so welcome here
And I walk by and you steer clear
You always said it'd come passionate here
Don't like what you see, you don't like what you hear

If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown


20.Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary

Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank

I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then

Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank

I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then

Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank

I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then


21.Silver Wings

Lyricist:Merle Haggard

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight

Don't leave me I cry
Don't take that airplane ride
But you lock me outta your mind
Left me standing here behind

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight

Slowly fading out of sight
Slowly fading out of sight


22.Tennessee Square

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Red ribbons hang in a Tennessee square
Old people laughing and singing and dancing down there

I'd like to join 'em, I got no money to spare
So I sit here and watch from the porch
Drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair

Ferris wheel lights look like pictures I'd seen in a book
somewhere
Vacant parking lots across the street remind me I'm going
nowhere

I'd like to join 'em, I got no money to spare
So I sit here and I watch from the porch
Drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair

It's difficult to go on knowing you're out there somewhere
Vacant parking lots across the street remind me I'm going
nowhere


23.Revenge

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Whatever happened to you, you've changed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'm still alone

There were no secrets, there were no stories
There was no one around
There were no reasons, there was no questions
There is no point now

Whatever happened to you, you've changed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'm goin' on

So tell me your secret
Did you wanna see me pull my guns?
So tell me your secret
There were no stories, nobody won

I'll give you a reason and I'll wage a war with a punch from
your face
I'll stand my guard, I'll give you a reason
You might see it, you might hate it
You might never know your name

So tell me a secret
Did you wanna see me pull my guns?
Tell me a secret
You gotta look me in the eye

Tell me a secret
And tell me a secret
How does it feel to be so lone?

How does it feel to be so lone?
Just say or cry


24.Waiting to Derail

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

They say that all the time
And they mean it only sometimes
Are you out in all that sunshine
Waiting to derail?

Wanting, needing, fighting, feeling
Waiting to derail
Needing, wanting, feeling, fighting
Waiting to derail

Yeah, you say that only sometimes
But you mean it all the same
Are you out in all that sunshine
Just waiting to derail?

Wanting, needing, feeling, wanting
Waiting to derail
Wanting, changing
Do you feel it, do you feel it?

Are you waiting to derail, to derail?
Waiting to derail, waiting to derail
Waiting to derail
Are you waiting waiting?

Yeah you say that all the time
But you mean it only sometimes
Are you out in all that sunshine?
Are you feeling better now
That you're waiting to derail?

Wanting, feeling, trying, embracing
But you're waiting to derail
Waiting, yeah, waiting to derail
You're waiting to derail
Yes you're waiting to derail


25.What May Seem Like Love

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

To, one, two, three, four

What may seem like love may soon fall apart
You don't practice what you preach
You don't finish what you start
Your lies have got me tryin' to mend a broken heart
Please don't speak to me again

You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'

What may seem like love may soon fall apart
The student shouldn't speak and interrupt his teacher's thought
There's a lesson to be learned about bein' true to heart
Please don't speak to me again

You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'

What may seem like love may soon fall apart
You don't practice what you preach
You don't finish what you start
Your lies have got me tryin', mend a broken heart
Please don't speak to me again

You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'

I'm never gonna listen to a single word that you've been sayin'


26.Somebody Remembers the Rose

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Somebody remembers the dress
How it was hand-sewn, beautifully pressed
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Honey, I'm out of service for a while
Damaged heart's been manufactured
And every day this one never works anyway

Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Honey, I know you
Baby, I know you
Yeah, I know you


27.16Days

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

I got 16 days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
You should have worn my wedding ring

I got 16 days
15 of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side

Ghost has got me running
Ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you

Ghost has got me running
Ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you

I got 16 days
Got a bible and a rosary
God, I wish that You were close to me
Guess I owe You an apology

I got 16 days
15 of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side

Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you

Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away

Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up, in ribbons, bowed with hearts
Old tin cups, and little paper dolls
All wrapped up, in the ribbons of your heart

Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you

Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you, yeah

16 days
I gotta 16 days
Before I hang


28.Losering

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Losering, losering
Patiently
Losering, losering

I can tell
She could tell everything
Losering patiently

Losering, losering
Losering, losering patiently
Losering

Well I can tell
She can tell everything
See what you have been losing

Losering patiently
See what you have been losing
Losering, losering
See what you have been losing
Losering, losering

See what you have been losing
Losering, losering
See what you have been losing, see what you have been
Losering


29.Don't Wanna Know Why

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Mike Daly

Don't wanna know why you like me, I don't care
Don't wanna know why I walk by, and you stare
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why

When I breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to drive through your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to never say goodbye

Don't wanna know how you're feeling, I don't care
Don't wanna know when you'll meet me, I'm not there
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why

When I breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to drive through your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to never say goodbye

I wish I knew
How to tell you
How to tell me why


30.Factory Girl (Baseball Park Sessions)

Lyricist:David Ryan Adams, Phil Wandscher

So, the factory girl she listens
For the sound of her daddy's engine
'Til the work bell sounds and she leaves town

Oh, the summer's here are hot
All she seems to do is work and sleep
I wish that she was still with you

Now you don't know where she is
Lyin' in her mother's bed
Or who she's sleepin' with

Oh, the kids will laugh at her
'Cause she seems so sweet and pure
Oh, I took this shift because of her

Oh, I've never said a word
I once smiled and looked at her
'Til the shift-boss said, 'Get back to work'

Now you don't know where she is
Or who's bed she's sleepin' in
What man she's sleepin' with


31.What the Devil Wanted

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly

I sleep a sleep
Of wounded sheep
That jump the fence
But are too weak

It's what the devil wanted
It's what the devil wanted from me

Put your lover to your chest
Put all your fears to rest
Forever baby, ah, ah
Forever baby

All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
Ah, ah, ah, baby

My idle hands
They are but tools
Apply them well
And you will loose

It's what the devil wanted
What the devil wanted from me

Put your lover to your chest
Put all your fears to rest
Forever baby, ah, ah
Forever baby

All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
Ah, ah, ah, baby
Ah, ah, baby
Ah, baby, baby


32.My Hometown

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

On back down in my hometown
Everybody's feelin' it bad
No new breaks, whatever it takes
Not to have to sway it on a classified ad

Hey there Ma and Pa, here I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again

Up real late in New York state
Talkin' to my baby at night
She keeps me warm and protects me from harm
Love just keeps on rollin' when the money gets tight

Hey there Ma and Pa, where I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again

Oh, Mrs. Memory just take me on down
Back to the shanties and the cars by the lake
Oh, Mrs. Memory just take me on back
Back to my baby and make it okay
Yeah, just make it okay

On back down in my hometown
Everybody's feelin' the same
Good money spent, on keepin' the rent
Sent in to the man under a week late

Hey there Ma and Pa, where I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again


33.Choked Up

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

I don't know why we can't talk
Every time we try we get choked up
Running with the feelings that get caught in our head
'Til I can't remember what it was we said

All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?

I don't know why we can't win
Every time we lose we just pretend
Running out of money at the end of the month
Not able to buy the things I want

All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
Count my friends on my left hand
I don't even know they wouldn't understand

Taint myself with thoughts of leaving
Running out of things left to believe in
Running out of money and time
Running out of money and time

You won't be mine
I don't know why we can't win
Every time we lose we just pretend
Running out of money at the ned of the month
Not able to buy the things I want

All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
Count my friends on my left hand
I don't even know they wouldn't understand

All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?

All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?


34.Reasons to Lie

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly

I get so tired of missing you
I get so tired of wanting to
Compare the things that are easy to do
Like the reasons you lie to me
The reasons I lie to you

And I wish it was some kinda explosive device
That only you could diffuse
Reasons you lie to me
Reasons I lie to you

Wanna live in a beautiful house
Somewhere up in the hills
With some people making fun of us
You refer to us as your two kids

Then it wouldn't be somebody else
That you'd grow accustomed to
Reasons to lie to me
Is a reason to lie to you

I get so tired of missing you
I get so tired of wanting to
Compare the things that are easy to do
Like the reasons you lie to me
Reasons I lie to you


35.Mining Town

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Said you came from a mining town
They closed the mining down
Said your daddy was a drinker
He had a picture of Jesus on his sinker

Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight

This town's only five miles wide
Look everywhere there's a road sign
On tops and places to hide
And cops sit around hungry
Waitin' to dine

Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight

Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight

Said you came from a mining town
They closed the mining down
Said your momma was a drinker
She had a picture of Jesus on her sink and

Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight

Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight

Maybe I
Baby, I'm coming for you tonight


36.Midway Park

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Ride with you tonight, I'll ride forever
There's no way to predict this kind of weather
Ashes fall to earth, words are severed
Feathers turn to weighted iron pillars

Midway Park
Streetlights shine on a hood that is dark
Down on the graves
Where we'll lie, we'll lie, we'll lie

I think of you tonight, I'll think forever
There's no way to predict this kind of weather
Ashes fall to earth, words are severed
Feathers turn to broken beads and pillars

Midway Park
Streetlights shine on a hood that is dark
Down on the graves
We'll lie, where we'll lie, we'll lie

Don't tell the truth, we'll lie, just lie
Don't tell the truth, just lie
Close your eyes, don't tell the truth
Just lie, lie, just lie


37.Desperate Ain't Lonely

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary

I try not to drink 'cause if I sit and think, I'll go crazy
Desperate ain't lonely
Know I've been high, pockets are empty
In daytime I'm lonesome, in the nightime I'm sad

The letter I wrote took words from my throat I was saving
Lay on the roadside
I guess the mailman was drunk, the message was urgent
How lazy a state where you don't live no one

So I try not to drink 'cause if I sit and think, I'll go crazy
Desperate ain't lonely
Know I've been high, pockets are empty
In daytime I'm lonesome, in the nightime I'm sad


38.Too Drunk to Dream

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Can you hear that lonesome moanin'
Is that you or is that me?
My broken heart ain't aching for nothing
That I can't touch or I can't see

And do you hear that lonesome cryin'
Thought I made it stop it's singin'
But my hands lay there on the bottle
And I just drank until my heart would be too drunk to dream

So baby, you can leave if you wanna
There ain't no drinkin' when the bottle is dry
Sugar, you can leave if you wanna
I got no more tears to cry

Do you hear that lonesome shuffle
Of my feet walking out of the bar
And I stumble down the same damn streets
My daddy done stumbled before

So baby, you can leave if you wanna
All the flowers in your garden have died
Baby, I'm gonna have to warn you
I ain't got no more tears to cry

Well sugar, you can leave if you want to
There ain't no drinkin' when the bottle is dry
Baby, I'm gonna have to warn you
I ain't got no more tears to cry


39.Somebody Remembers the Rose (Out of Service)

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Somebody remembers the dress
How it was hand-sewn, beautifully pressed
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Honey, I'm out of service for a while
Damaged heart's been manufactured
And every day this one never works anyway

Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger

Honey, I know you
Baby, I know you
Yeah, I know you


40.Faithless Street

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Angels are messengers from God
Please send one down to me
Angels are messengers from God
Wrote a letter He should read

Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed His peace on this land
So I started this damn country band

Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed His peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing


41.Empty Baseball Park (Baseball Park Sessions)

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

Why should I hate you?
After all, it's been so long
Since I've lived in town
Let it go for now

Have a drink at your favorite bar till dark
Stumble into empty baseball park
Strike one and strike two
I guess we're both out

Stumble past the record store
End up at the movies
Try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me

Stumble past the record store
And end up at the movies
Just try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me

You do this to me
You do this
And I oblige
And I fight it

Why should I miss you?
After all, it's been so long
Since I felt your kiss
Did it come to this?

Stumble past the record store
End up at the movies
Try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me

Stumble past the record store
And end up at the movies
Just try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me

I let you do this to me
I must be crazy, I must be crazy
I must be crazy, I must be
I must be, I must be


42.Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Throwing rocks at a window
Stumble into a telephone pole
While the light shines down on your person
Filtering through all your aversions

Love will not find you tonight
When you're preaching love, thinking love, holding back
What were you thinking
When black arrows
Shot at your bleeding heart?

Looking into the mirror
Don't like what I see ain't looking like me
I want to be near her
There's no way in hell and there's no time to tell

Love will not find you tonight
When you're preaching love, thinking love, holding back
What were you thinking
When black arrows
Shot at your bleeding heart?


43.Drank Like a River

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come
from
He's brown bagging it tonight behind some tavern
Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'
Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'

So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face

Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come
from
He's hanging out drinking beer with his brother-in-law
He was a drinker at night and in the morning he was unnerving
He was a drinker full time, the day that he lost his darlin'

So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face

So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face


44.Here's to the Rest of the World (Baseball Park Sessions)

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

I know the world is a mess
I like the patterns on your dress
Would you have a drink with me please
Have a couple or three

I see you walk by, I don't speak but try
Have a drink with me please don't say anything
I look like a mess
The patterns of your dress, they blind me

Here's to the rest of the world
I guess that you deserve something you work so hard
At trying to be just like everyone else
Except people like me

Well, the lights shining down onto the street
The city lingers as it overheats
I'm on idle right now, don't feel so proud
Wait for the others to join the crowd

And they come, ones, threes

Here's to the rest of the world, oh, I don't know
Here's something that you deserve, a drink or two
Come on and sit down with me and we'll pretend everything
We'll pretend everything, it's easy


45.Top Dollar

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Well, I tried to find something, something to hold on to
I thought it was you 'cause I'm sick and tired
Of trying to make something, something out of nothing
I guess since you were bluffing, now I think I'm losing my mind

The pain in my heart, was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart, was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues

And I gave you it all, all, all that I could give you
You've taken what I've given and thrown it all away
Like it's nothing, never meant nothing
Now I'm left with nothing what an awful price I've paid

The pain in my heart, was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart, was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues

I've bet all my money and that's how it goes
You ran a good race
But you lost just by a nose
It's true
Baby, you're giving me the top dollar blues

The top dollar blues
I gave you it all, all, all that I could give you
And the top dollar blues
Top dollar blues


46.Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

Well, excuse me if I break my own heart
It was mine from the finish I guess, it's mine from the start
The situation just don't seem so goddamned smart
The situation is tearing me apart

So you'll have to excuse me if I break my own heart

Well, excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Some things are born too strong, have to learn how to fight
The situation keeps me drinking every goddamned day and night
The situation don't seem so right

So excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well, excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well after all it was mine

If the rain falls down on a trailer park town
Let your eyes slip easy into mine
If the rain falls down on a trailer park town
Let your eyes slip easy into mine

You run the road but your diary entry reads blank
Is this some sort of joke to you?
Is this some sort of joke to you?

Well excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
After all it was mine, it was mine
After all it was mine


47.Everything I Do (Miss You)

Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher

She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
She's got rings wrapped around her precious things
And what the day brings, oh it's no surprise

Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do says, 'I, I miss you'

She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
And she's got rings wrapped around her precious things
What the day brings, oh it's no surprise

Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'

She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
She's got rings wrapped around her precious things
And what the day brings, oh it's no surprise

Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do


48.Angels are messengers from God

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Ernest Gilmore, Steven William
Grothmann, Philip John Wandscher

If angels are messengers from God
Please send one down to me
If angels are messengers from God
I wrote a letter he should read

Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band

Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man

He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing

Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man

He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing


49.Matrimony

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher

Well, I'm savin' this dress for my wedding day
Momma wouldn't have it any other way
She says, when she married, her waist was twenty three
I guess, I'll never wear it anyway

I don't believe I care to marry
Though I cannot explain exactly why
It somehow seems to me, matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die

I'm savin' all my money for my wedding day
You know, my momma wouldn't have it any other way
She says, when she married, she didn't' have a dime
I guess, I'll spend that money some other way

Because I don't believe I care to marry
Although I cannot say exactly why
It somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die

Well, I'm savin' my best thing for my wedding day
Because my poppa wouldn't have it any other way
He says, if I lose it early, I'll have thrown my life away
But I swear, I'll use my cherry my own way

I don't believe I care to marry
Though I cannot explain exactly why
It somehow seems to me, matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die


50.Mirror Mirror

Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly

Mirror, mirror, up on the wall in the back of the room
As I walk down the hall in the house where I stayed
Tell me something about what I saw in the face of a man
Who once felt it all but feels nothing today

Knock, knock, â½Who's thereâ
I don't know, I can't say
Ask me tomorrow
I'll tell you the same

But ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)

Trouble, trouble, down in my hood where it's well understood
They love when you're bad and they hate when you're good
Tell me something about who we are at the end of our days
When our souls become one but our lives separate

Knock, knock, â½Who's thereâ
I don't know, I can't say
Ask me tomorrow
I'll tell you the same

But ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh

Well, ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)

Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)

It's bound to make you smile


51.Pawn Shop Ain't No Place For A Wedding Ring

Lyricist:Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Phil Wandscher, Ryan Adams,
Steven Grothmann

Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories

Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen

Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories

Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen

Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories

Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen


52.Theme for a Trucker

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr. King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She had only ever known

Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
Just a memory you know
You can't dilute it or see to it
Roll through it, you head home

There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
You could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were

So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr. King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She was all he'd ever known

Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
It's just a memory you know
You can't see through an old tune
Roll through it and head home

There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
But you could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were

So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr, King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She was all he'd ever known

Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
It's just a memory you know
You can't dilute it or see to it
Roll through it, head home

There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
You could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were


53.Bottom of the Glass

Lyricist:Dick Flood, Eddie Hill

You think that you have found a way to ease your troubled mind
You fill a glass then drink it down a
But for a while you're in another world and you wake up in the
past

You'll never find the answer in the bottom of the glass You'll
never find the answer in the bottom o

That bottle there is not your friend when it's gone it leaves
you cold The strength it gives you sli

But you'll never find the answer in the bottom of the glass
You'll never find the answer in the bott


54.Dancing with the Women at the Bar

Lyricist:Ryan Adams

When I see the moon I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name, just calling my name
When I see the moon I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name yeah it's calling my name

Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere

My daddy saw the moon, heard the sound of the strip
It called out his name, it called out his name
My daddy saw the moon and heard the sound of the strip
It called out his name and it called his son's name too

Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere, close somewhere

When you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah call out my name, yeah call out my name
And if you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah call out my name, yeah call my friend's names too

Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere, close somewhere


55.A Song For You

Lyricist:Gram Parsons

Oh, my land is like a wild goose
Wanders all around everywhere
Trembles and it shakes 'til every tree is loose
It rolls the meadows and it rolls the nails

So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to
It sails the rivers and it sails the tide
Some of my friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside

So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there

I loved you darlin' and now I'm leaving
And I can see the sorrow in your eyes
I hope you know a lot more than you believe in
I hope the sun don't hurt you when you cry

So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow, we will still be there
And tomorrow, we will still be there


56.Not Home Anymore

I slept in our room, nice wall
I slept with our ghosts painting the walls
Now our happiness hung there like a stake or a light
Truly you are gone wandering helplessly now
We are, we are

You, you are gone
You, you are gone
You, you're gone
You, you're gone, you're gone

I left all the lights on in our old room
To pretend that you and I were home
(Waiting up somewhere for me, I'm not home anymore)
(You are still waiting up for me in our old room)

You, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you're gone
You're gone

No love in the ghosts that we are
No love ever lost where we are
Still waiting up somewhere
You are, you are

You, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone

Now it doesn't mean a thing
It used to mean a lot, mean a lot to me
Now it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean a thing
But it never meant a thing to you