Lone Star State of Mind Lyrics

I am a backseat driver from AmericaThey drive to the left on Falls RoadThe man at the wheel's name is SeamusWe pass a child on the corner he knowsAnd Seamus says, "Now, what chance...Read Full Lyrics

Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fieldsWhen the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yieldThe trains roll by our silos, silver in the rainThey leave our po...Read Full Lyrics

In 1914, this ball was at warIt went from Belgium on through IrelandThe Congo, then back homeThis big blue ball of war spun on it's ownSpinning history in lines of bloodWhen many s...Read Full Lyrics

You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moonAnd we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrueYou can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for youAnd ev...Read Full Lyrics

Gulf Coast HighwayHe worked the railsHe worked the rice fieldsWith their cool dark wellsHe worked the oil rigs in theGulf of MexicoThe only thing we've ever ownedIs this old house ...Read Full Lyrics

So much silence to my hometown streets, gonna put my cheek to the window and watch it sleep Where the shadows fall from sycamore trees, fight off this north wind and I'll be headin...Read Full Lyrics

They were the loving kindShe was black and he was whiteIn Virginia nineteen fifty-eightThey found love amongst the hateWell the law said they could not wedThey married anywayThe sh...Read Full Lyrics

I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but hereI'm watching this evening fire burn away my tearsAll my life I've left my troubles by the door'Cause leaving is all I've ever kn...Read Full Lyrics

I saw you on the avenueYou looked so tired and a little blueYou were in your Sunday bestWith your father's tie upon your chest[Chorus:]Hey, you always stood me stillHey, you always...Read Full Lyrics

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of MemphisWhere the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen skyShe sings like the waves in the cool MississippiThat brought her from St. Paul in '75An...Read Full Lyrics