Justin Townes Earle Album

I come home and you can't give me a smile
I don't know, maybe you think that I'm
bound to you baby, or maybe you're a fool
but you gotta treat me better than you do
'cause it's hard livin'
lovin' you

Every move you make is cold as ice
oh, and every word you say is just "I'm right"
I'm calling for you baby, low and cruel
well come on honey don't you make me choose
'cause it's hard livin'
lovin' you

Oh, now roses are red and violets are little babe
why do you always gotta speak in riddles?
Give it to me straight if I refuse
Come on mama, make your move
Well I can find somebody treats me better than you
'cause it's hard livin'
lovin' you

Oh, now roses are red and violets are little babe
why do you always gotta speak in riddles?
Give it to me straight if I refuse
Come on mama, make your move
Well I can find somebody treats me better than you
'cause it's hard livin'
lovin' you

Oh it's hard livin'
lovin' you

Well since you've left I've had no place to be
I'll spend most everyday doing as I please
I've got pockets full of money; hear a jingle when I walk
Yeah it's a good life from now on

Now if I walk down the street everybody knows my name
They all step aside and let me go my way
They all smile and snicker and some won't talk at all
Yeah it's a good life from now on

Oh and all the fancy restaurants won't let me wait inside
They serve me out the backdoor and never ask for a dime
So you tell me what I'm missing and I'll tell you where you're wrong
Yeah it's a good life from now on

Well now I could go anywhere and live this way
I could catch a first class trip on a mountain bound train
Yeah 'cause I've got nothing left here to keep me hanging on
Yeah it's a good life from now on
Yeah it's a good life for me from now on

Well now who am I to say?
If all I know is what I heard
With the things some people say
You can never be to sure
But who cares where you find comfort
I'm no one to deny
Anybody what they need to take them through a night

Because who am I to say
What you should do behind close doors

Well now who am I to say?
I've been trouble almost all my life
I took pleasure in such things most wouldn't entertain not at the darkest of times
So you take your pills and poison
Drink yourself to death
Give yourself away until you ain't got nothing left
Because who am I to say that there's anything wrong with that

Yeah but why do you call at such hours every time
Saying I don't need no money, I've just been thinking of you tonight
Oh, but who am I to say?
Maybe you had good intentions at heart
Maybe you took truer aim and it was me who missed my mark
But for every word of anger, left unexplained, for every time that I turned you away
Who am I to say that it wasn't for the better, girl?

Who am I to say?

I swear I see her in my dreams sometimes
Held up in the middle of the night
Shakin like a pistol in a young mans hand
There in the pale moonlight

Standin up the top of that lonely hill
Spared by the company mines
Is my blue eyed baby with her best dress on
In the shadow of a lonely pine

It was back before the war
When the company came
These hills grew wild and free
Me and baby we'd hide in the hollers low
Away from the cruel sun's heat
But then they knocked down the timber
And burned off the brush
To get to the riches below
And when they pulled out
They left a cold black ground
And one pine standing lone

So take me home...
Lone pine hill

I signed up back in '61
I'm an army of Virginia man
I've been from Mannasas to Mackonackey
All the way to Sailors Creek fighting
For my home land

After 4 years gone and all hope lost
And Richmond under seige
And we're diggin out Five Forks
And waitin in the rain
For Sheridan to bring us to our knees

So take me home...
Lone pine hill

There's a strange moon hangin' overhead tonight
And if the rain keeps comin then the creek's gonna rise
With the good lord's grace
I'll make it outta this place
I'll be in her arms come the morning light I swear...

So god grant me speed and grant me forgiveness
And carry me on through the night
Take me through the hills and over your rivers
Away from this awful fight

Cause I ain't never known a man that's ever owned another
Ain't never owned nothin' of my own
And after 4 long years I just can't tell you
What the hell I've been fighting for...

So take me home...
Lone pine hill
Take me home...
Lone pine hill

Well, now I been alone for such a long while now
But I won’t be tonight, no
Cause I’m bound for south Georgia to find my sugar babe
She gonna do me right
Now, I don’t know somethin’ about the way she do
That just drive me outta mind
So, I’m bound to south Georgia to find my sugar babe
She gonna do me right

Well, now I’m just outta Macon off of highway 16
So, I should be in Savannah by night
Well, then me and my baby, we’ll go out on that town
Hell, it should be quite a site!
Lord, because my baby, she’s half as crazy as me
And like I said it’s been some time
So, I’m bound for sound Georgia to find my sugar babe
She gonna do me right.

(Instrumental Break)

Now, I said come one baby, oh, I won’t be long, no
So, get your dancing shoes ready girl
Put your best dress on, now
Well, cause I’ve been alone for such a long while now
But I won’t be tonight, no
Cause I’m bound for south Georgia to find my sugar babe
She gonna do me right

Oh, well I’m bound for south Georgia to find my sugar babe
She gonna do me right

Now what do you do when you're lonesome?
Where do you go when you're blue?
And how do you deal with such emotion?
When you're just an ordinary fool?

Do you hang your head and walk the streets hoping no one sees your face?
Wishing you were someone else someplace far away?
Do you stay out late nights drinking trying to smile through?
A pain that everybody knows is tearing you in two?

Now what do you do when you're lonesome?
Where do you go when you're blue?
And how do you deal with such emotion?
When you're just an ordinary fool?

Now some have tried changes of geography and such
Others have locked their hearts away for fear that they'll fall in love
Oh, but still there's still some far too dumb to know there's something wrong
And they waste their lives wondering why they're waking up alone

Now what do you do when you're lonesome?
Where do you go when you're blue?
And how do you deal with such emotion?
When you're just an ordinary fool?

Now what do you do when you're lonesome?
Where do you go when you're blue?
And how do you deal with such emotion?
When you're just an ordinary fool?

Same old blues comin' 'round again
Every night about this time
And it's callin' me like a long lost friend
When I turn out my lights

I can see you in my dreams
Every time I close my eyes
And just like I knew you'd be to
Get me through the night

I can feel the darkness fall
Like the rain against the wind blows
And I can hear your memory like a
Dream outside my window babe

Even though I know you're gone
I don't have to be alone now
You're here with me every night
When I turn out my lights

When I turn out my lights tonight
And look into your eyes
I know it's gonna be alright
When I turn out my lights

it's them same old blues comin' 'round again
Every night about this time
And it's callin' me like a long lost friend
When I turn out my lights, turn out my lights

If you don't want me like I want you
Well, come on honey why don't you
Give me some kind of due as to what I should do

Well, you keep acting like you love me
But all I want is for you to show me
How much you really care if you even do

So I don't know what I should do
Seems like either way I lose
Between lonesome and you

Now every time I, I try and kiss you
You turn your cheek and oh how I miss you
Why do you have to be so cruel?

I used to think that you were so
Sweet and loving but now I know
What I just would be thinking can't do

So I don't know what I should do
Seems like either way I lose
Between lonesome and you

Between lonesome and you
Ain't where I wanna be
But it seems I love you more the less you love me

So I don't know what I should do
Seems like either way I lose
Between lonesome and you

So I don't know what I should do
Seems like either way I lose
Between lonesome and you

Well I take my time a-comin’, take my time a-leavin’
If you ask me why I’m goin’, tell you when it’s needed
More than you know I could never be what you need

If you ain’t glad I’m leaving, girl you know you oughta be
‘Cause I lie I cheat I gamble, and I steal from many men
Where from Georgia to Los Angelos, Texas up to Maine
I’m a wanted man
Is that the kind of life you want to live (wanna live), baby?
(Life you wanna live)
If you ain’t glad I’m leaving, well you know you oughta be

So what’s a girl like you, want a man like me (like me, man like me)
Never know what I’m gonna do, if you never know where I’ll be (I’ll be, where I’ll be)
Now I know right now, baby, though it might seem wrong (seem wrong), yeah (might seem wrong)
But you don’t wake up in the morning, thanking to your Heavens that I’m gone

Well I’m so good, don’t take it too bad, ain’t nothing you could do
Well I ever fall in love and, keep it on the move
It’s just my way. I ain’t trying to be mean (mean), baby (tryin’ to be mean)

If you ain’t glad I’m leaving, girl you know you oughta be (oughta be, girl you oughta be)
Well if you ain’t glad I’m leaving, girl you know you oughta be (oughta be, girl you oughta be)

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