Beautiful Despair (For James) Lyrics

Oh, darlin', you say that I blew your life away But I can tell you, you're gonna get it back someday I've got a brand new rag, it ain't the same old rag I've got it in the bag, I'l...Read Full Lyrics

[Spoken Introduction: Steve Earle] In the 1950s, Brown and Root was the largest construction company in the world. A lot of poor sharecrop farm people running from the Great Depre...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] Heckle and Jeckle built a barbed wire nest In a windmill derrick way out west Scooping up scraps down the long fence line It was a work of art, the only one of its ki...Read Full Lyrics

The sun is coming up and I'm just going down Everywhere I look the world keeps turning 'round Though I said I never would be satisfied Baby I lied I couldn't leave you if I tried ...Read Full Lyrics

I don't like humus, I hate long lines Nosy neighbors and the nation blind Chirpy news anchors alter my mood I'm offended by buss words like awesome men do I look like a train wrec...Read Full Lyrics

I don't want to wind up bitter lost inside a silent rage Or become like Rilke's panther out here locked up in a cage The old man I've been talkin' to has cotton in his ears But the...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1: Rodney Crowell] The crickets are singing, the blue gills are biting The fireflies are flashing with all of their might Just forty-odd miles from the Rio Palm Isle The...Read Full Lyrics

I could she'd my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly fly fly Tie my dreams up in a sack and lay my head down on the track and die die die My life's been so sweet I just can...Read Full Lyrics

Well, tonight I'm gonna meet her At the Hungry House Cafe And I'm gonna give her all the lovin' I can She's gonna jump and holler 'Cause I saved up two dollars And we're gonna sea...Read Full Lyrics

Cool as a rule you don't learn in no school You can't brown nose the teacher from a dunce hat stool It's the hum and the rhythm of the birds and the bees The momma's and the poppa'...Read Full Lyrics