Pat Green

[fox69]

"Poetry"

"Poetry"


Some things I've done make my conscience burn
My very spine shutter and squirm
I only hope that I've learned from my sins
I heard a voice when I was thirteen
Got baptized and washed up clean
The world has a way if you know what I mean
Stuffing you up again and again

I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a fallen star or a feathered wing
How a man in chains has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
When the lights just right I swear I see
Man, it's poetry

Now somebody made everything
From the soul inside out to Saturn's rings
How my baby smiles and how Ray Charles sings
Of course we were created
The clouds make rain, the ocean makes sand
The earth breathes fire and lava makes land
Now that took a mighty hand a wild imagination

I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a fallen star or a feathered wing
How a man in chains has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
When the lights just right I swear I see
Man, it's poetry

The dreams I dream came back tenfold
The friends I had to the woman I hold
I look down I'm on a street of gold
After all the mud along the way
Sometimes the big old mystery just leans right in on me
Says that I am home and I am free
And I'll take that any day, any day

I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a fallen star or a feathered wing
How a man in chains has the strength to sing
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
When the lights just right I swear I see
Man, it's poetry

Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more that what appears to be
When the light's just right I swear I see
Man, it's poetry

 

[fox69]

"Rain In Lafayette"

"Rain In Lafayette"


Home from church now, so let your hair down
It’s the lord’s favorite day.
There’s a dance river tavern, where the drums and fiddles play
So wear your new shoes, your red boots, the dress I cant forget.
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.

Summers comin’, my brain is hummin’, said that only you can do
And the way your eyes are smilin’ I know mine must be shinin’ too
You’re my lovely, my only, the one my alouette
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.

So let the rain fall, cant hurt us at all, get as wet as we can get.
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.

So let the rain fall, cant hurt us at all, get as wet as we can get.
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.

 

[fox69]

"Ruby's Two Sad Daughters"

"Ruby's Two Sad Daughters"


When the sun hits it right on its way down it was the prettiest thing
in our little town. Every hour I'd
sneak a glance over at the plastic frame and cracked
glass that holds the picture of Ruby's two sad
daughters. Last mill closed when I was nine and
Daddy left and Momma cried again, I spent my
nights cleaning Ruby's floors, just another cafe on
a wind swept highway the farmers bitched, we're no
good at football anymore.

In this land that knows no laughter in this land that
holds no water, we were all in love with Ruby's two sad daughters.

One went way out west, one went way wrong,
one left at seventeen and the other couldn't wait that long.
Neither went anywhere with me,
not to the games or the Dairy Queen.
Both split with the first boy who lied sweet and looked vaguely mean.

In this land that knows no laughter in this land that
holds no water, we were all in love with Ruby's two sad daughters.

Why so pretty and forlorn why so permanently blue
I guess ours wasn't much of a kingdom to rule.
Now when the sun hits it right on its way down,
it's still the prettiest thing in our little town.
Every hour I sneak a glance over at the plastic frame
and I fix the glass that holds the picture of Ruby's two sad daughters.
Why did hope leave town with Ruby's two sad daughters?

 

[fox69]

"Run"

"Run"


Finally free
Finally gone
Finally breathing again
Finally back on my own
Well, I'm finally here in an otherwise empty room
Where there's no one here to tear me all apart

Tonight I'm going out and going to get a little wasted
I'm one of those guys, I'm one of those guys

I gotta run
I gotta be free
Don't hold me down, no baby

Speaking of faith
I finally found me some
I'm in the same old place
There's a lot less screaming and carrying on
Too much pain, too much hate
Not enough fire
Now it's way too late

Tonight I'm going out and going to get a little wasted
I'm one of those guys, I'm one of those guys

I gotta run
I gotta be free
Don't hold me down, no baby
[repeat]

You're looking back at me with your pretty little eyes
And you want so bad for me to try and change
We tried that one before
Win the battle, lose the war
Just count your losses baby, and go
Just count your losses baby, and go

I gotta run
I gotta be free
Don't hold me down, no baby
[repeat]

 

[fox69]

"Rusty Old American Dream"

"Rusty Old American Dream"


I don't look all that ragged for all the time it's been
I'm weakened underneath me where my frame is rusted thin
And this years state inspection I just barely passed
Won't you drive me cross the country boy this year could be my last

And I'm a tail fin road locomotive
From the days of cheap gasoline
For sale on the side of the road goin' nowhere
A rusty old American dream

I rolled off of the line in Detroit back in 1968
Spent two days on the showroom thats all I had to wait
I've been good to all who've owned me so have no fear
Come on boy put your money down get me outta here

And I'm a tail fin road locomotive
From the days of cheap gasoline
For sale on the side of the road goin' nowhere
A rusty old American dream

This car need a young man to own him
One who will polish the chrome
I'll give you the rest of my lifetime
Just don't let me die here alone

Just jump me some juice to my battery
And give that old starter a spin
Here me roar, a spuuter, back fire to the carburetor
And roar into life once again

And I'm a tail fin road locomotive
From the days of cheap gasoline
For sale on the side of the road goin' nowhere
A rusty old American dream

 

[fox69]

"Sing 'Til I Stop Crying"

"Sing 'Til I Stop Crying"


Pouring rain, cracked front window
I turned off my radio and reached for my boot
For my favorite sterling horseshoe flask
To take a drink of what it holds

She was looking at her feet
When i saw her on the street
She was holding tight to someone else's hand
So I kept on rolling and now here I am
And I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying

The earth is slow out west of llano
Better pull this car of mine off-road awhile
And reached to the back for my daddy's old martin
Hold it oh so close to me
I'd sing me some Jones or sad Newberry song
I'm Gonna Sing 'til I stop crying

Pull out my smokes, I pull out my Zippo
And fire it up cause there's nothing left to do
Well, the morning sun its a coming on
Guess its safe to say that I won't make work today
But a Roger Miller song sure sounds fine to me
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying

Conway run to FIND Miss Tammy
Willie would you CALL Miss Emmy Lou
Cause I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying

 

[fox69]

"Sleeping With The Lights On"

"Sleeping With The Lights On"


Well, I can't believe how much I think about you
I don't know why
How'd I ever even get along without you
Through the long night
Days are so long when you're not around
But I only know one thing

I'm tired of sleeping with the lights on
Writing all these sad songs
I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms
So tell me that you're all right
You're missing me tonight
You can't wait till I come home

And I wonder if you're staring out the window
Watching cars go by
And I wonder if it ever really gets to you
With no one by your side
Walking through this lonely space
I need you so much every day
This is the life I know

I'm tired of sleeping with the lights on
Writing all these sad songs
I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms
So tell me that you're all right
Missing me tonight
You can't wait till I come home

It's getting closer every day
Just thinking about it makes me shake
But I know I need you now

I'm tired of sleeping with the lights on
Writing all these sad songs
I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms
So tell me that you're all right
Missing me tonight
You can't wait till I come home

Tell me that you're all right
Missing me tonight
You can't wait till I come home

 

[fox69]

"Snowing On Raton"

"Snowing On Raton"


Well when the wind don't blow in Amarillo, and the moon along to Gunnison don't rise,
shall I cast my dreams upon your love babe, and lie beneath the laughter of your eyes.

Snowing on Raton, come morning I'll be through the hills and gone.

Mother thinks the road is long lonely, little brother thinks the road is straight and fine,
will little darlin' thinks the road is soft and lovely, I'm thankful that old road is a friend of mine.

Snowing on Raton, come morning I'll be through the hills and gone.

Bid the years good-bye you cannot still them, you cannot turn the circles of the sun,
you cannot count the miles until you fell them, you cannot hold a lover that is gone.

Snowing on Raton, come morning I'll be through the hills and gone.

Tomorrow the mountains will be sleeping, silently the blanket green and blue,
but I shall hear the silence they are keeping, I'll bring all their promises to you.

Snowing on Raton, come morning I'll be through the hills and gone. [x3]

 

[fox69]

"Somewhere Between Texas And Mexico"

"Somewhere Between Texas And Mexico"


You say you love me but you love me not
Something about true love that you must have forgot
To lose a memory I know just where to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

King fish are jumping – the moon is right
Full throttle captain til the we're out of sight
Stars on the ocean will find me I know
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

South Padre Island to the Brownsville Bay
My heart is healing with each breaking way
But I got some real friends and they're ready to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

King fish are jumping – the moon is right
Full throttle captain til the we're out of sight
Stars on the ocean will find me I know
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

It's gonna take just a little more time
With a little help from the salt and a limes
Something about the wind and the sea sets a broken heart free out there yeah

King fish are jumping – the moon is right
Full throttle captain til the we're out of sight
Stars on the ocean will find me I know
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

Somewhere between Texas and Mexico

 

[fox69]

"Songs About Texas"

"Songs About Texas"


I sing songs about Texas
I sing them often as if she was some old lover I used to know
I wish I could follow them back to the homeland everytime
I hear one on my radio

Twin fiddles playing in my memory
My daddy sang the wonders of old Cowtown
Silver haired and he's still there under a sky so warm and fair
I'll tell you friends there's a song in every town

So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm going on home

There's nothing short of the gospel hymns
I guess that why folks keep writin' them when I die I wanna go there too
Some day I hope to walk along heaven street
And I'll still be lookin' for my taco meat
And swear I hear steel guitars rising in the air

So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And Robert Earl Keen he can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm going on home

When the night is real real still I swear I can hear a wipporwill
She knows there's music in the dirt down there
Hill country rain its a cleansing thing
And all I have to do is see one and I'm sittin' in a shallow creek
Ain't got nothing to do ain't got nothing to do

So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And ol' Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm going on home