Rodney Crowell

[fox69]

"Things That Go Bump In The Day"

"Things That Go Bump In The Day"


She was a prom queen taking the world by storm
I felt like James Dean with her on my arm
The night was a free ride lit by the moon
I prayed from the inside don't let it end soon
It's funny how the things we want become the things we don't
In the long run
The one that we let slip through becomes the one love true
When she's the gone one

Oh, we're never gonna get away
Yeah, yeah from the things that go bump in the day
The things that go bump in the day

I've got a good friend in love with the blues
He lives down the dark end with nothing to lose
Believing in sorrow he's making the most
Maybe tomorrow he can give up the ghost

It's funny how the things we need only make you bleed
When the chips fall
The one that made the world go round gets up and knocks you down
With a phone call
It's funny how the things we fear become the things we hear
When we're all alone
The things that we don't understand get up and bite your hand
Like a dog bone

Oh, oh we're never gonna get away
Yeah, yeah from the things that go bump in the day
Oh, oh we're never gonna get away
Yeah, yeah from the things that go bump in the day
The things that go bump in the day
The things that go bump in the day

 

[fox69]

"Thinking About Leaving"

"Thinking About Leaving"


I use to think that love was something meant to tie me down
All I ever wanted was a guitar and another town
Ten years disappear so fast when you're strung out on the highwire lines
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind

I lie here in your bed watching raindrops on your window pane
Sometimes I get to feeling like ain't nothing ever gonna change
Ramona you've been good to me you're a woman very hard to find
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind

Sometimes I miss the bright lights sometimes I miss the crowd
Sometimes I miss the women sometimes the music loud
Sometimes I miss that world out there so cold hard and unkind
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind

Sometimes I miss the bright lights sometimes I miss the noise
Sometimes I miss the women sometimes the good old boys
Sometimes I miss that world out there so cold hard and unkind
And I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
Yeah I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind

 

[fox69]

"This Too Will Pass"

"This Too Will Pass"


When the winds of change hit hard and knock you off your guard
And you find out there's a serpent in the grass
Though forked tongues might speak if truth is what you seek
This too will pass

When you're all tied up in knots and your friends are taking shots
And the sun comes up and kicks you in the ass
When your stumbling down the aisle and you feel like you're on trial
This too will pass

Sometimes you've gotta go down the middle of the road
Where compromise puts speed bumps in your path
If you know what you won't let no one say you don't
This too will pass

Sometimes you gotta crawl through the middle of it all
But don't compromise your heart for something crass
When everything you do just feels like nothing new
This too will pass

When your all locked up in shame be careful who you blame
This too will pass

Goodnight George

 

[fox69]

"Through With The Past"

"Through With The Past"


How long did I live in a dream?
How much time did I squander?
What made it all fall apart at the seams?
What was the spell that I went under?
Sometimes I was lost in a bubble
It was the cause of a whole lot of trouble
But that's all right
I feel strong about the future, baby
I'm through with the past

How deep are the scars that he gave you?
just how far can one man take it?
I'm no knight on a white horse comin' on strong just to save you
But if you take my hand I think we can make it
The proof is when I feel my arms around you
And the truth is I just can't believe I found you
Tonight's the night we get started on the future, baby
'cause I'm through with the past

It's a bitter man going backwards
On a wide road, straight and long
I don't care what we left back there
I look forward from now on

You know that I'll be anything but perfect
But I swear to you I'm gonna make it worth it
Tonight's the night we get started on the future, baby
I'm through with the past - Yes I am
So turn out the light let's get started on the future, baby
I'm through with the past

 

[fox69]

"Time To Go Inward"

"Time To Go Inward"


It's time to go inward take a look at myself
Time to make the most of the time that I've got left
Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid
To stare down the barrel of the choices that I've made
The ghost of bad decisions make mountains out of everything I feel

Outside my window the wind weaves a path through the trees
The moon takes a shine to the shadows that fall on the leaves

It's time to go inward hmmmmm
I don't know if I can do it after all that I've become
I've been a fool for money but it's vanity that always leaves me flat

It's time to go inward man I hope I have the nerve
To take an inventory of the causes that I serve
They say a man without a conscience is like a man without a country or something like that

It's time to go inward time to be still
If I don't do it now I don't believe I ever will
My mind is like a chatterbox whose noise pollutes the pathways to my soul

Time to go inward time to get a grip
Time to put an end to one long bad acid trip
I'm all out of excuses now for the way I've let my choices take a toll

Jesus and Buddah and Krishna and Minnie Pearl knew
To do unto other the things you want done unto you

It's time to go inward and take a look at me
Try to make some sense of life's illusions that I see
And try to solve the riddle of what it is I have to offer to this world

 

[fox69]

"Tobacco Road"
(originally by John D. Loudermilk)

"Tobacco Road"
(originally by John D. Loudermilk)



I was born in a trunk
Mama died and my daddy got drunk
Left me here to die or grow
In the middle of Tobacco Road

Grew up in a rusty shack
All I had was a hangin' on my back
Only you know how I loathe
This place called Tobacco Road

But it's home
The only life I've ever known
Only you know how I loathe
Tobacco Road

Gonna leave, get a job
With help and grace from above
Save my money, grow rich and old
And bring it back to Tobacco Road

Bring dynamite and a crane
Blow it up and start all over again
And build a town we'd be proud to show
And give the name of Tobacco Road

But it's home
The only life I've ever known
Only you know how I loathe
Tobacco Road

I was born in a trunk
My mama died and my daddy got drunk
Left me here to die or grow
In the middle of Tobacco Road

But it's home
The only life I've ever known
Only you know how I loathe
Tobacco Road

 

[fox69]

"Topsy Turvy"

"Topsy Turvy"


Daddy's in the kitchen fryin' sauerkraut
Momma's in the bedroom nearly all cried out
Daddy thinks that whiskey makes him big and smart
Momma thinks that daddy's got a concrete heart
I wish I had a brother or a sister whom to I could turn

Bustin' out the windows with a baseball bat
Daddy's gone crazy as a bunkhouse rat
Momma's on the sofa with a big black eye
I cross my heart and tell myself I hope they die
I wish I had a nickel now for every time a cuss word flew

Mad house all topsy turvy
A ship of fools with scurvy
I don't like a thing about the way we live

Momma's on the pavement with a broken arm
Tellin' everybody that he meant no harm
Talk about denial with a great big D
You can try to fool the neighbors but you can't fool me
I wish some kind of millionaire would come adopt me on the spot

Mad house all topsy turvy
A ship of fools with scurvy
I don't like a thing about the way we live

Police knock on our door
They've seen it all before
Why don't you use restraint
We've had a few complaints

Now all the other women up and down the block
Are tuning out the static with a front door lock
They greet us in the morning with a wave and grin
But you know they're only waiting til the roof caves in
I don't even know if we can make it through another day

Mad house all topsy turvy
A ship of fools with scurvy
I don't like a thing about the way we live
I don't like a thing about the way we live
I don't like a thing about the way we live
I don't like nothing
I don't like a thing about the way we live
I don't like nothing
I don't like a thing about the way we live
I don't like nothing

 

[fox69]

"Truth Decay"

"Truth Decay"


You've got me worried now
It makes me feel somehow
As if the world is gonna break
Oh, c'mon, short on breath
It's like I'm scared to death
That I might make a bold mistake

I'd grown accustomed to the comfort
Nothing heavy on my plate
I've come to see myself as free at last
But now I just don't feel that great

I can't love you like I want to
When it depends on what I don't do
And every chance to see the real you
Oughta feel you slip away, is truth decay?

It throws me off my game
And nothing feels the same
I get so dizzy I can't think
I dig down deep in down
Until there's no way out
I'm just so busy on the brink

I'd like to think I make a difference
As if indeed I ever could
It was always up to you, girl
And this I never understood

I can't love you like I want to
If it comes down to what I don't do
And every chance to see the real you
Oughta feel you slip away, is truth decay?

I can't love you with my hands tied
Walking barefoot down the landslide
If I can't be there when you need me
Do you read me when I say 'it's a truth decay'?

 

[fox69]

"U Don't Know How Much I Hate U"

"U Don't Know How Much I Hate U"


Night after night, day after day
I pass by the house that once was my home
I'm lookin' for something to knock out the lights till the sun comes up shining like new
The chill in my bones just reminds me that life isn't fair and nobody cares
About lost souls surviving on hard knocks and vice
In a world just as nasty as your world is nice... baby blue

You don't know how much I hate everything about you
Your honey red lips and your eyes big and sparkling blue
The curve of your hips and your black Irish hair sends a shiver that runs through me too
You don't know how much I hate you... I wish it was true

You were kind to my mother you were good to my friends you were passionate, faithful and strong
I must have been sleeping it feels like a dream and I can't say just where I went wrong

Like a dog in the garbage with rocks in my head
I'm strung out and crazy I can't find the thread runnin' through

You don't know how much I hate everything about you
Your voice like good bourbon so elegant, tasteful and smooth
With a flick of a match I could burn down this house takin' every last memory of you
You don't know how much I hate you...
You don't know how much I hate you...
You don't know how much I hate you...I wish it was true

 

[fox69]

"Victim Or A Fool"

"Victim Or A Fool"


Two words, you're gone
You don't say nothing else and that's what's so wrong
Am I a victim or a fool

Two hearts, keeps so close
One said forever baby, one just almost
Am I a victim or a fool

If it was something I did
Why did you keep it all hid
How could you rate me as the last in your line

How could you stop on a dime
You must have known all the time
The trouble waiting at the end of your ride

Two words, so strong
All of a sudden baby you say so long
Am I your victim or a fool

If it was something I said
You kept it all in your head
You kept your feelings hidden safely from view

And now you're not coming home
And I must face time alone
You're gone it's so wrong but all coming true

Two words, hit me so strong
All of a sudden baby you say so long
Am I your victim or a fool
Am I your victim or a fool