Lucero (band) Album

You said you're tired of this goddamn town.
You said you're gonna burn it all down.
Drive your car to the end of the bridge.
Sit and watch the smoke rise.
Lay on your hood at the top of the ridge.
Gonna watch it all burn tonight...
Well alright.

You said you fell for a boy at the bar.
Only thing burning was the flame in your heart.
Drive your car to the end of the bridge.
Sit and watch the sun rise.
Lay on your hood at the top of the ridge.
Gonna fall in love tonight ...
Well alright.

You said you're tired of this goddamned town.
You said you're gonna burn it all down.
You said you fell for a boy at the bar.
Only thing burning was the love in your heart.
C'mon baby lets watch it all burn.
C'mon baby lets watch it all burn.
C'mon baby lets watch it all burn.
C'mon baby lets watch it all burn.

I'll be leaving with the morning light.
Dont know when I'll be back this way.
For proper farewells I aint got the time.
I's never good at saying goodbye anyway.
Watch over my family for me.
Tell 'em I cant stop to rest.
Don't tell 'em bout how I'm lonely.
Tell my Anjalee i love her best.

When i get home I will make things right.
Gonna make it work somehow.
Right now its outta reach but it ain't outta sight.
Each step away brings it that much closer now.
Dont let 'em know that im tired.
Don't tell 'em this is all thats left.
Say soon i'll be back beside her.
Tell my Anjalee I love her best.

Further down the road my fortune lies.
Though thats never how I planned it.
So I leave my home with the morning light.
Won't come back here empty handed.

Watch over my family for me.
Tell 'em I cant stop to rest.
Don't tell 'em bout how I'm lonely.
Tell my Anjalee i love her best.

kathy met a girlfriend at a place over on grand. she swore if she got out alive she'd not go back again.
the fellas didnt know her and they scared her half to death.
hand prints on her jeans, she woulda just got up and left.
but thats when she saw benny standing over by the bar.
she sat back down and waited til he came over to talk.
later on that night she was walking out the door.
benny starting up his bike the boys came out for more.
they picked her up and put her on the back of benny's bike.
now kathy's been with benny bauer ever since that night. she's tried to leave him many times but cant quite get away.
she's seen more jails and courts and lawyers than she'd like to say.
but benny's always been a fighter that'll never change.
kathy takes him home and heals him up all the same.
he'd made it from the clubroom all the way out to the street.
they'd beat him with the barstools but he made it on his feet.

kathy's running to her boy, picks him up and takes him home,
benny's saying girl im sorry. baby you dont know.

at a bar they call the stoplight the fellas drink their beer.
the women with their hair done up they make it very clear
which one of the fellas is all theirs and cant be touched,
but that dont mean the motorcycle riders just give up
on talking to the pretty ladies every one they can.
never seen the trouble caused all by just one dance.
if benny dont get himself shot tonight he'll wish that he had when he gets home.

so kathy's dating benny and he keeps her by his side.
kathy's still the cutest girl these boys'll ever find.
riders line up bsas out on the scramblers track.
levis jeans and leather jackets number their backs.
benny's bike's too big big to race in the two-fifty class.
they make him start way up on the hill out by the railroad tracks.
tomorrow they'll all ride across the illinois state line
to the motorcycle blessing at the st. christopher shrine.

kathy's walking out the door.
leaving benny all alone.
benny's crying kathy please
baby dont you go.
kathy do you mean it this time?
just leave him in the middle of the night?
his wallet's on your table,
his boots are on your floor,
but the car's parked right outside your back door.
just leave him asleep in your bed
and you're halfway to chicago
before goodbye is said.

You were sixteen
When you fell in love
All grown up now
Once was enough
To beat the odds one night
forty east

At the end of the bar were the boys
She orders a drink over the noise
As she pays, She sings in time
I am someone satisfied
Her lips movin' with the words
Her hips swayin' as she turns
Away from the bar, out of sight
I wish the band would play all night

You were sixteen
When you fell in love
No one told you
It won't be enough
To beat the odds one night
at twenty-two

At the end of the bar were the boys
She orders a drink over the noise
As she pays, she sings in time
I am someone satisfied.
Her lips movin' with the words,
Her hips swayin' as she turns
Away from the bar, out of sight
I wish the band would play all night.

Now shut up and play that guitar.
Just shut up and play that guitar.
We ain't nobody's darlings,
We never should've made it this far.
We aint nobody's darlings,
So shut up and play that guitar.

I settle for watching her dance.
I'm just watching her dance.
We ain't nobody's darlings,
We never stood a chance.
We aint nobody's darlings,
So i settle for watching her dance.

Now we got to the game
Just a little too late.
Spent our early days,
We spent our early days
Just fucking up.

We aint nobody's darlings,
We aint nobody's boys.

And we fell
Fell around the world.
A drunken mess
With nothing left,
But the other ones
Still holding on
To all those dreams.
We didnt know were done

And we fell
'cross the state,
Never gave 'em much
Never givin' up.
And we'd raise a glass,
And we will today
To all those times
It never went our way.

And we fell through the town,
Held each other up,
Never staying down,
And we'd take a drink
When it got too much.
And im still not sure
Just what became of us.

left a draling down in georgia
lost a girl to tennessee
now i'm goin' out to california
where somebody cares for me

hey there - hey there darlin'
don't break too many hearts
keep 'em at a distance
and you keep 'em all guessing
you got a nice hand
but never show your cards

double bourbon on the rocks on the weekend
four or five on saturday night
you better watch it with the looks you're stealing
them boys can't treat you right

hey there - hey there darlin'
don't break too many hearts
keep 'em at a distance
and you keep 'em all guessing
you got a nice hand
but never show your cards

when i get to california
kiss goodbye this southern heat
the california stars are my girls
for all the night, for all the night

drank away my girl in texas
ended up in new orleans
all the women down there knew better
than to mess around with me

hey there - hey there darlin'
don't break too many hearts
keep 'em at a distance
and you keep 'em all guessing
you got a nice hand
but never show your cards

when i get to california
kiss goodbye this southern heat
the california stars are my girls
for all the night, for all the night

hey there - hey there darlin'
don't break too many hearts
keep 'em at a distance
and you keep 'em all guessing
you got a nice hand
but never show your cards

hey there - hey there darlin'
don't break too many hearts
keep 'em at a distance
and you keep 'em all guessing
you got a nice hand
but never show your cards

don't break too many hearts
don't break too many hearts
don't break too many hearts

runnin' from the truth for all my life
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'
no i'm too tired to tell more lies
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'

i never lied to you and i never laid blame
it was my own fault for what I became
the flies on the ceiling and the dogs in the cane
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'

noon as dark as midnight
the judge is down the road
now walk with me
just a little while
i'm too weak on my own

how long have i been this way
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'
always said i'd trade the rest of my days
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'
can't take you with me when I leave here
one more time i need you here
one more walk through the pines my dear
wake up darlin', wake up darlin'

noon as dark as midnight
the judge is down the road
now walk with me
just a little while
i'm just too weak on my own

I was drunk by noon on new years day
In the hills outside of town some place
With the smoke and the wine
And a stranger's eyes

Smoke and the wine and the whiskey don't mix
Shakin' so bad, think I'm gonna be sick
Buy 'nother scotch as I head to the door
Now it won't make me better
But i wanna make sure

Now hold, me close,
I love you more than you know
And I step outside

Now I drank away all of my fears and my doubts
Stole away hearts from town to town
Now the things I fear
Come back here

I feel the cold ground underneath my boots
For no good reason it reminds me of you
Never made good, though I tried and I tried
So I turn back around...
And I walk inside

Now hold, me close
I love you more than you know
Now hold, me close
I love you more than you know
And that won't make things right

Bloody knuckles and a broken nose
oh, that's why i never left home
i've faught in bars
and i've faught in the streets
four more years of fightin'
'til they're done with me

leave it 'til tomorrow 'til you say good bye
aint in the mood to watch no one cry
tonights its whiskey, so buy another round
drink it up boys its my last night in town

momma i aint you're only son
aint no favorites here, its just how its done
drink it up boys its my last night in town
its too late to turn back now, oh

in the mornin' its the wide open road
take it far enough it'll bring you back home
she said "i watched them carry you to the back
couldnt say good by to you like that"

i can always say, "I'm sorry i's drunk"
so many times 'til it doesnt mean much
when i get home the first rounds on me
raise up that glass - good bye tennessee

momma i aint you're only son
aint no favorites here, its just how its done
drink it up boys its my last night in town
its too late to turn back now, oh

i can always say, "I'm sorry i's drunk"
so many times 'til it doesnt mean much
when i get home the first rounds on me
drink it up boys - good bye tennessee

momma i aint you're only son
aint no favorites here, its just how its done
drink it up boys its my last night in town
its too late to turn back now, oh

well i know
it won't last long
it's all the same to me
'cause when you try and make it stay
that's when it surely slips away
from the start
it came from my heart
it's all the same to me
from the start
it fell apart
it's all the same to me
'cause when you try and make it stay
that's when it surely slips away

I got drafted at 19
Me and a bunch of boys from home
January '43, drove out to Pine Bluff and signed on
Went to basic south of Birmingham
Put me on west coast bound train
Spent three days out in San Diego
And they shipped me back east again
Left a port out of New York
Slept for months in british rain
Tore it up down in London town
And they shipped me back out again

The preacher said âЂŒBoys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in ParadiseâЂќ
One boy spoke up, said âЂŒpreacher come on, eat your supper with us

Never talk about those first days
Lots of friends left behind
But I made it all the way across France
And I fought at the Maginot line
Road a tank into Belgium
Like them better than the French
Like my daddy, thirty years before
I did my time in a trench
Lots of days there's no water
But the liquor kept me warm
The cellars were stocked to the ceiling with booze
So I carried a bottle with my gun

The preacher said âЂŒBoys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in ParadiseâЂќ
One boy spoke up, said âЂŒpreacher come on, eat your supper with usâЂќ

Three times I made sergeant
I'm not that kind of man
And pretty much just as quick as I could
I get busted back to private again
Cause takin' orders never suited me
Giving them out was much worse
I could not stand to get my friends killed
So I took care of myself first
Now I know that don't sound right
Don't think too bad of me
Now it keeps me up nights
What I could have done differently

The preacher said âЂŒBoys he who is killed tonight will dine with the Lord in Paradise.âЂќ
One boy spoke up, said âЂŒpreacher come on, eat your supper with usâЂќ

I'd be no guest at the table of the Lord
His food was not to be mine
âЂ?Cause I cursed His name every chance that I could
And I recon that's why I'm still alive