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My Country
02:45
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This is my country, my damn country
Gimme my country, you can keep the rest
This is my country, my damn country
And it don’t mean a thing if it don’t pass the test
If you ain’t never cheated or been cheated on
Then take off your boots, you rhinestone fraud
Gimme cheating, drinking, and outlaw songs
Hard times, foolish pride, done me wrong
Flirting with the devil, get right with the man
Amen, pain songs, one night stands
You can keep your picket fence fantasies
And put a cork in your high school memories
This is my country, my damn country
Gimme my country, you can keep the rest
This is my country, my damn country
And it don’t mean a thing if it don’t pass the test
If you ain’t never spent a single night in jail
Then get another job and I’ll see you in hell
I’m drawn like a moth to the neon lights
I need a bucket of beer and someone to fight
Don’t call yourself country if your music is shitty
Or this Carolina boy’ll take you down to Fist City
You know who you are, I ain’t gonna name names
Just keep your hands off my country and go back from where ya came
My country, my damn country
Gimme my country, you can keep the rest
This is my country, my damn country
And it don’t mean a thing if it don’t pass the test
If you ain’t never done something you regret
Well, then I’m proud of ya, now git
Get this pussified, polished, pop song piece of
Glorified nursery rhyme outta my face
Wintertime, springtime, summertime, autumn
Show me to the jukebox and Yoakam if you got ‘em
I want country like Johnny, country like Merle
Country like Loretta, that honky tonk girl
Country like Townes, country like Travis
I’m a country-fried junkie with a bad habit
Country like Kris, country like Gretchen
If you ain’t cooking country then get out of the kitchen
I want country like Hank one, two, and three
Dropping like peaches from the family tree
Country like women, whiskey, and wheels
Yeah I know if it’s country cuz I know how it feels
Country like Waylon, country like Willie
Country like lightning in a hillbilly
This is my country, my damn country
Gimme my country, you can keep the rest
This is my country, my damn country
And it don’t mean a thing if it don’t pass the test
If you can’t sing along to Tear in my Beer
Then don’t forget your coat and get the fuck out here
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Sweet Maria
03:03
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If I had a car, we’d drive down to the ocean
You’d call it el mar, and we’d lay out in the sand
And if the sun was shining, I’d cover you with lotion
Talk about the fine things and forget the second hand
Oh Maria, dance a little closer
Close your eyes and don’t say anything
Don’t believe the sirens on Figueroa
Just listen to Carmelita sing Las Mañanitas
Sweet Maria
And if I had a plane, we’d fly to Costa Rica
Land atop a mountain and look down on the world
I’d learn to speak Spanish, we’d eat comida rica
And everything would vanish that we didn’t want in our world
Oh Maria, dance a little closer
Close your eyes and don’t say anything
Don’t believe the sirens on Figueroa
Just listen to Carmelita sing Las Mañanitas
Sweet Maria
And if I wasn’t me, I wouldn’t blow my money
On cocaine mariachi, and we could do all that kind of stuff
And maybe I’d never worry that you weren’t gonna love me
That I’d wake up and find you burned me cuz I didn’t have enough for you
Maria, dance a little closer
Close your eyes and don’t say anything
Don’t believe the sirens on Figueroa
Just listen to Carmelita sing Las Mañanitas
Sweet Maria
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Running on Fuel
04:19
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I wrote this song for all my no good friends who’s just getting by, just like me
Leaving the bar, my breath’s as hard as regular gasoline
Fire up a bone while I’m swerving home, blowing smoke like a Model T
Wake up to a cup as black as tar, go to work and get beat like a mule
I’m just as empty as I am poor, so I’m running on fuel
I’m running on fuel, it’s all I can do
To get up and make it through
Coffee in the morning, whiskey in the evening
Cigarettes all day long
I’m running low on faith and lower on pride
I’m out of love, but I still gotta drive
I feel like a fool, but it’s all I can do
I’m running on fuel
I ain’t lazy, and I ain’t no martyr, I ain’t leaning on Uncle Sam
I just drink coffee like crazy, whiskey like water, and smoke like a power plant
I’m running on fuel, it’s all I can do
To get up and make it through
Coffee in the morning, whiskey in the evening
Cigarettes all day long
I’m running low on faith and lower on pride
I’m out of love, but I still gotta drive
I feel like a fool, but it’s all I can do
I’m running on fuel
Sometimes getting by seems harder than dying
But something in a man just makes him keep on trying
Ain’t got no wife, ain’t got no kids that I know of, it’s hard enough as it is
To work all day then make it to that barstool, I’m running on fuel
I’m running on fuel, it’s all I can do
To get up and make it through
Coffee in the morning, whiskey in the evening
Cigarettes all day long
I’m running low on faith and lower on pride
I’m out of love, but I still gotta drive
I feel like a fool, but it’s all I can do
I’m running on fuel
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Fade to Blue
04:31
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I could fight like a wounded soldier
And allow the war to rage
I could work like a slave, enduring everyday
Although Master wields no chains
I could take a knife and cut ties
And leave you without a clue
But I knew when I saw your green eyes like mine
We could only fade to blue
No fighting now
Tie on down
Lover, light the spoon
Fix enough for two
Stick a needle in
Feel it flowing through
And fade to blue
By a trick of magic light
Our sunset lights the view
I could make myself believe it for a time
But it’d only fade to blue
No fighting now
Tie on down
And light the spoon
Lover, be a friend
Stick a needle in
Feel it flowing through
And fade to blue
No fighting now
Tie on down
Lover, light the spoon
Fix enough for two, my friend
Stick a needle in
Feel it flowing through
And fade to blue
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Wait for Me
04:36
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I know it’s been awhile since we’ve kissed or even since I’ve seen you
And once again we went too long without talking
So I hope I didn’t disturb you, but it’s Sunday and I’m lonely
And I know 7:15’s too early to be calling
But this ain’t gonna take long, I’ll let you fall back asleep soon
I was hoping maybe you could ease my worried mind
Now there ain’t no damn way I can love someone else like I loved you
And I know that it might be a long time
But could you wait for me
And stay true for me
Save your lips for me
Sleep alone for me
Could you wait for me
You told me on multiple occasions you weren’t gonna love no one like you loved me
We’ll never be that innocent again
I gave you everything I had till I didn’t have myself
I lost myself in you and I’d do it all over again
And I will wait for you
And stay true for you
Save my lips for you
Sleep alone for you
I will wait for you
Now it won’t be too long till I’m coming back to visit
But it could be a year till I’m back for good
Now I’m asking you a question, but if you don’t wanna, then don’t tell me
But if the answer’s yes, I really wish you would
Can you wait for me
And stay true for me
Save your lips for me
Sleep alone for me
Cuz I will wait for you
And be good for you
Save my heart for you
Buy a ring for you
I will wait for you
If you wait for me
I will wait for you
If you wait for me
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