Tales Facing Up Lyrics

Well, they caught you smoking grass and the judge threw the book I can see a little opportunism in your look You can take it from me, boy You can take it from a crook I got friends...Read Full Lyrics

Now Sheriff Buford Pusser's gotten too big for his britches With his book reviews and movie deals Down at the car lot making public appearances For breaking up our homes and stills...Read Full Lyrics

My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck You're dumber than dogshit is what my Daddy said I was just thirteen when they showed me the door I keep their picture but don't look at ...Read Full Lyrics

I watched the rain; it settled in. We disappeared for days again. Most of us were staying in, lazy like the sky. The letters flew across the wire filtered through a million liars. ...Read Full Lyrics

By the time you were born there were four other siblings With your momma awaiting your daddy in jail And your oldest brother was away at a home And you didn't meet him til you were...Read Full Lyrics

The Reverend had his wife done in by a guy I knew in High School He and a friend should do her in and make it look like a robbery "Here's money son, go buy a gun and shoot her in...Read Full Lyrics

And they fell from the skies with the greatest of ease And they landed on the ground under tents and trapeze And they were told that they fell with such beauty and grace That th...Read Full Lyrics

The hours creep across the face As she paces across the floor She can't even get to sleep since Tony went to war She feels bitch-slapped and abandoned By a world she thought sh...Read Full Lyrics

I wake up tired and I wake up pissed Wonder how I ended up like this I wonder why things happen like they do But I don't wonder long 'cause I got a show to do I'm sick at my stoma...Read Full Lyrics

It's all about where you put the horizon Said the Great John Ford to the young man rising You got to frame it just right and have some luck of course And it helps to have a tall...Read Full Lyrics