Promised Lyrics

I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want. A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon. Down here only rich men lose their shirts. And Jo...Read Full Lyrics

Maybe you should disappear, And now I've warned you so. Bury your clothes out in the woods, And hide your letters 'neath the stove. There's a big house down in Wilkeson, where you...Read Full Lyrics

Come back in the winter, Won't steal away too long. And when I'm back I'll set it all ablaze. Got Jesus in my pocket And matches in my coat. I won't have to work alone this time. ...Read Full Lyrics

Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first place. You can call in sick,...Read Full Lyrics

Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse. He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst. Nobody knew where he came from, And nobody cared to ask...Read Full Lyrics

Got an earthquake shack near Elbe. Got a garden of dyin' cars. Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road. And at night I can hear the lockjaw, And the swagger of the de...Read Full Lyrics

The sky is always heavy here, And the mules they roam in packs. And the skulls we dragged from waterholes, By the woodshed in a stack. And fear don't ever come out alone. And...Read Full Lyrics

Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but they do not seem close. Take...Read Full Lyrics

Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything. We lit this valley with atomic power, But the lights went down in the closin...Read Full Lyrics

Lead you over to the water, Said "Hold it down until it does not breathe." Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to be. This recklessness might ki...Read Full Lyrics