Shiner

One winged angels can’t fly
So she spins around wondering why
Everything hit the skids
Was it something she did
He’s a one woman man
With a glass of beer in his hand
There’s a phone in the hall
Ringing right off the wall

When she still lived at home
He’d say honey I’m dry as a bone
Every time he got parched
She’d grab that jar and dart
Across the hot blacktop
To a faucet of cold Shiner Bock
It don’t work anymore
Now he goes to the store

Chorus:
She’s a red headed master plan
Wasting her time on a wasted man
He’s running from the mess he made
She’s wondering if she should’ve stayed

Old men do love their booze
It must give them something they can use
To see things their own way
I’m OK, you’re OK
She believed it for a time
Now she knows it’s just a drunkard’s line
So she turned a deaf ear
Hears what she wants to hear

Chorus:
She’s a red headed master plan
Wasting her time on a wasted man
He’s running from the mess he made
She’s wondering if she should’ve stayed

Bridge:
Memories make good drinking companions
They know all your secrets
They’ve heard all your lies
Yesterday’s your friend when the bed is empty
It feels like a lover
Who sleeps on your side

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She’s Like a Plane

You better buckle up
Before we take off
Cause sometimes the landings
Are not all that soft
One day she crashed into
The house where I live
I’m too young to forget
Too old to forgive

I’ve heard it all before
She smiles and says welcome aboard

Chorus:
I call her jet cause she’s like a plane
She takes me so high
And brings me down again
To hell and back you gets lots of miles
Coupons for free drinks
And dangerous smiles

There’s oxygen up there
It will make you high
So when you’re going down
You won’t wonder why
When you’re moving that fast
It’s all so unreal
So just take a deep breath
I know how you feel

I’ve felt the engines’ roar
She smiles and says welcome aboard
Chorus:
I call her jet cause she’s like a plane
She takes me so high
And brings me down again
To hell and back you gets lots of miles
Coupons for free drinks
And dangerous smiles

There’s no need to worry
It’s just turbulence
After you’ve flown enough
You’ll get used to it
She always looks so calm
While I hold on tight
She winks at me and says
Everything’s all right

I fall for it once more
She smiles and says welcome aboard

Chorus:
I call her jet cause she’s like a plane
She takes me so high
And brings me down again
To hell and back you gets lots of miles
Coupons for free drinks
And dangerous smiles

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She Don’t Want to Talk About Love

A penny for her thoughts
Sounds like robbery
And if it ain’t stealing
It must be charity

She said don’t ask me
If I love you or not
With these fiber optics
You can hear a pin drop

Chorus:
She don’t want to talk about love
She’s not much for all that mushy stuff
She don’t want to talk about love
Her heart’s been broken enough

She said I’d learn to miss
All the things that you lose
When we trade in your wants
For a big list of have-tos

So my fingers take that walk
From the Lone Star State
I guess it’s a bad connection
That got me to this place

Chorus:
She don’t want to talk about love
She’s not much for all that mushy stuff
She don’t want to talk about love
Her heart’s been broken enough

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Second Chance City

Johnny G. got his papers today
He said he was expecting the call
He got the word at six from T.K.
But the writing has been on the wall

Management has itself a new plan
Take a package or they’ll lay you off
They’ve got no love for the working man
And the union’s really getting soft

Chorus:
The verses keep changing
But the song remains the same
It’s not what you do, it’s who you know
And how you play the game
Take me where the ground is flat
And the girls are all pretty
Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

Ever since the con man got the shift
Things around here have been pretty rough
He rides the backs of the working stiffs
Playing the numbers from dawn to dusk

T.K. tried to do what he could do
But the suits all hide behind closed door
They’re too busy trying to cut costs
To notice all the blood on the floor

Chorus:
The verses keep changing
But the song remains the same
It’s not what you do, it’s who you know
And how you play the game
Take me where the ground is flat
And the girls are all pretty
Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

Bridge:
I’ve got twenty dollars for the fare
Take me where you will, I don’t care
I just want to feel like I’m going somewhere
Someplace other than here
I just want to disappear…

Because

Chorus:
The verses keep changing
But the song remains the same
It’s not what you do, it’s who you know
And how you play the game
Take me where the ground is flat
And the girls are all pretty
Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

It’s down to me, G-man and the Stain
And all three of us feel like marked men
We need these jobs too bad to complain
So each day we punch the clock again

Sometimes I think about walking out
But nothing’s as simple as it seems
I’ve got a family to think about
I need that check more than I need dreams

Chorus:
The verses keep changing
But the song remains the same
It’s not what you do, it’s who you know
And how you play the game
Take me where the ground is flat
And the girls are all pretty
Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

Mister can you take me
To Second Chance City

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Sanitarium

I dream of a figure in the rain
Like a nightmare in a bad thunderstorm
I see shadows in a bedroom window
Moving in a ghostly form

If heaven is an old love letter
Hell must be a sad and tormented mind
How can she still haunt me like a graveyard
Even after all this time

Chorus:
Oh mama are you coming
To see me today
I have some bad recollections
But I’ll be OK
Memories can’t chase you
Once you have buried them
Mama I’ve been digging holes
In this sanitarium

Her love was a field of betrayal
And my trust was as fertile as good earth
When I tried to take those crops to market
I found out what they were worth

They say what goes around comes around
I guess all my sorrow came around good
But you know I wouldn’t change a damn thing
Even if somehow I could

Chorus:
Oh mama are you coming
To see me today
I have some bad recollections
But I’ll be OK
Memories can’t chase you
Once you have buried them
Mama I’ve been digging holes
In this sanitarium

Bridge:
And all the holes I dig
Turn up so empty
Nothing in and nothing out
And these walls are so high
Mama please don’t cry

Chorus:
Oh mama are you coming
To see me today
I have some bad recollections
But I’ll be OK
Memories can’t chase you
Once you have buried them
Mama I’ve been digging holes
In this sanitarium

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Room 119

I’m stuck here in 119
The lights are off and I’m lying here alone
I’m tired, but I cannot sleep
Maybe it’s time to be moving on

We drove down to the river
The rain was falling, but the water was low
She talked about the future
I just stood there and watched it flow

Chorus:
I can hardly see you at all
And I can’t catch my breath
Tell me what do you call it
When this is all that’s left

Some cowboy from down the hall
Keeps coming round tryin’ to give me somethin’
I don’t need what he’s bringing
I just want this nightmare to end

She’s gone back to the city
There’s a plane coming and she wants to be there
She swears that it won’t hurt her
I don’t know and I don’t care

Chorus:
I can hardly see you at all
And I can’t catch my breath
Tell me what do you call it
When this is all that’s left

Bridge:
Maybe I’ll pull myself together
Maybe everything will be OK
Here’s to you my old smoky friend
Here’s to better days

Chorus:
I can hardly see you at all
And I can’t catch my breath
Tell me what do you call it
When this is all that’s left

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Rock Bottom

It was a little hard to believe
When she said she was gonna leave
Because she didn’t love me anymore

I didn’t really think she’d go
But she did and now I know
A kind of hurt I’ve never felt before

Chorus:
If this is what they call…rock bottom
Maybe there’s nowhere left to go but up
Ever since our love
Has been forgotten
I’ve been headed straight for rock bottom

It was two weeks ago today
That my sweet baby moved away
My friends say I’ll start feeling better soon

But I feel worse and worse each time
I think of how she left me behind
I’m not sure time is gonna heal this wound

Chorus:
If this is what they call…rock bottom
I hope there’s nowhere left to go but up
Ever since our love
Has been forgotten
I’ve been headed straight for rock bottom

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