Thank You For Loving Me

It's hard for me to say the things
I want to say sometimes
There's no one here but you and me
And that broken old street light
Lock the doors
We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you
Are these five words when I

Chorus:
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
For parting my lips
When I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me

I never knew I had a dream
Until that dream was you
When I look into your eyes
The sky's a different blue
Cross my heart
I wear no disguise
If I tried, you'd make believe
That you believed my lies

Chorus:
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
For parting my lips
When I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me

You pick me up when I fall down
You ring the bell before they count me out
If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me

Solo

Lock the doors
We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you
Are these five words when I

Chorus:
Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
You parted my lips
When I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me

When I couldn't fly
Oh, you gave me wings
You parted my lips
When I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me

It's My Life

This ain't a song for the broken hearted
No silent prayer for the faith departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks

It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive

It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

Queen Of New Orleans

She said baby our love's just like your songs
The beat ain't bad but the words are all wrong
It's time to pack my bags, it's time to just move on
She sang, Johnny, I'm gone, gone, gone
And she was gone

Me and Leigh met summer of '95
In a burgundy dress lookin' finer than a French wine
A Cajun queen with another side
She was a schoolboy's dream, I was out my mind
She was lookin' fine
She said "You want to drive me home
But what I didn't know...

Chorus:
Ooh, Ooh-I was dancing with the
Queen of New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing in the streets of New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing cheek to cheek in New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh- it was almost like a dream

That night I madew a move, man fell I hard
When I put my hands in her cookie jar
She was more than a girl, she was a cabaret star
I was a deer in the lights of a speeding car
Nothings what it seems

She was a Venus de Milo in her sister's jeans
Chorus:
Ooh, Ooh-I was dancing with the Queen of
New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing in the streets of New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh- Dancing cheek to cheek in New Orleans
Ooh-Ooh-it was almost like a dream

Chorus:
Ooh, Ooh- I was dancing with the Queen of
New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing in the streets of New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing cheek to cheek in New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing with the Queen down Bourbon St.

Chorus:
Ooh, Ooh-I was dancing with the Queen of
New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing in the streets of New Orleans
Ooh, Ooh-Nothing's what it seems in new Orleasns
Ooh, Ooh-Dancing with the Queen down Bourbon St.

Ooh, Ooh-I was dancing with the Queen of
New Orleans

Janie, Don't Take Your Love To Town

Sitting here just watching you sleep
Wish I could slip inside and be
In some Technicolor dream
But the air's too thick for one of us to breathe
I'm not fool enough to think
You couldn't live without me

I didn't come this far to throw the towel in
I didn't fight this hard to walk away
If I ain't smart enough to say I'm sorry
It's just because the words got in the way

I remember how it used to be
I was you and you were me
We were more than just the same
Now these shoes don't fit, my skin's too tight
When you want a kiss, I take as bite
Let your heart caal up the cops, read me my rights
Last night I drank enough to drown
Raise a toast to your good looks an to my health
Look we both know How much i've let you down
Janie, don't you take your love to town

Chorus:
Janie, don't you take your love to town
janie, don't you take your love to town
If I've got to beg, I'll beg, just don't walk away
Janie, don't you take your love to town

You deserve a shooter, a saint
Someone to give it to you straight
To find the soul through flesh and bone
My life's a treasure, full of sunny weather
But it's left me feeling cold
Now all you want to do is take me home
I hated you, the night you said you loved
I hated you, 'cause I couldn't love myself
I'm begging you now, baby please just hold me
I've got one foot in and one foot off the ground

Chorus:
Janie, don't you take your love to town
janie, don't you take your love to town
If I've got to beg, I'll beg, just don't walk away
Janie, don't you take your love to town

Sitting here while you're fast asleep
In the bathroom by the sink
Trying to write the right words down
I turn out the lights, close my eyes
There ain't no prayers or kiss goodnight
What i'll forget to say tomorrow, I'll say now
Janie, don'tr you take your love to town

Chorus:
Janie, don't you take your love to town
janie, don't you take your love to town
If I've got to beg, I'll beg, just don't walk away
Janie, don't you take your love to town

Midnight In Chelsea

The kids 'round here look just like sticks
They trade old licks with a beat up six
I just smile and catch the groove

Gothic girls all dress in black
Serious as heart attacks
It takes a little bit of getting used to

The old man with the whiskey stains
Lost the nigt forgot his name
his poor wife will sleep alone again
And it ain't hard to understand
Why she's holding on to her own hand

Chorus:
It's midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No one's asking me for favors
No one's looking for a savior
They're too busy saving me

I've seen a lone, sloane ranger drive
Seems her chauffeur took a dive
And sold her secrets to the sun
And later in a magazine
I finally figured what it means
to be a saint, not a queen

Two lustfull lovers catch a spark
And chase their shadows in the dark
Someone's getting off tonight
Of a big red bus that's packed so tight
It disappears in a trail of light
Somewhere someone's dreaming baby it's all right...

Chorus:
It's midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No one's asking me for favors
No one's looking for a savior
They're too busy saving me
Midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No one's pinned their dreams on me
No one's asking me to bleed
I'm the man I want to be
When Chelsea girls sing...

It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song

Chorus:
It's midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No one's asking me for favors
No one's looking for a savior
They're too busy saving me

It's midnight in Chelsea, midnight in Chelsea
No one's pinned their dreams to me
No one's asking me to bleed
I'm the man I want to be
The man I want to be, the man I want to be
Midnight in Chelsea

Ugly

If you're ugly, I'm ugly too
In your eyes the sky's a different blue
If you could see yourself like others do
You'd wish you were as beautiful as you

And I wish I was a camera sometimes
So, I could take your picture with my mind
Put it in aframe for you to see
How beautiful you really are to me

Chorus:
Ugly, ugly
All of us just feel like that somedays
Ain't no rasinbow in the sky
When you feel U.G.L.Y.
And that's ugly, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ugly, ugly
All of us just feel like that somedays
Ain't no rainbow in the sky
When you feel U.G.L.Y.
And that's ugly, ugly
Ain't no cure that you can buy
When you feel U.G.L.Y.
And that's ugly

So, if you're ugly,I'm ugly too
If you're a nut, then I must be a screw
If you could see yourself the way I do
You'd wish you were as beautiful as you
I wish I was as beautiful as you

Staring At Your Window With A Suitcase In My Hand

You think you know me just because you know
my name
You think you see me 'cause you've seen every
line on my face
You want to want me just because I say that
I want you
But does it matter if anything I'm saying is the truth
You need somebody, somebody to hold on to
But this ain't the movies and we ain't heroes

Chorus:
Starin' at your window with a suitcase in my hand
The streetlights buzz as the cars roll by and the
moon don't give a damn
My boots just keep on walkin', but my heart don't
understand
Why I'm staring at your window with a suitcase in my hand

I said I want you, but when we woke up
one of us was crying
You rolled over and all you said was-
"Man, I think I'm dying"
Our song is over, this band of gold has been
feeling like a noose
You place your bets, 'cause no one thinks
they'll lose

Chorus:
Starin' at your window with a suitcase in my hand
The streetlights buzz as the cars roll by and the
moon don't give a damn
My boots just keep on walkin', but my heart don't
understand
Why I'm staring at your window...

The light of love can blind you 'til you cover up
your eyes
And you try to find the reason not to say goodbye
It's the curse of every sailor standing on dry land
Staring at your window with a suitcase in my hand

The nigth is fading, like my old tattoo
A heart and a dagger, that says "Forever"

Chorus:
Starin' at your window with a suitcase in my hand
The streetlights buzz as the cars roll by and the
moon don't give a damn
I'm getting tired of talkin', even I don't understand
Why I'm staring at your window with a suitcase
in my hand

Every Word Was A Piece Of My Heart

I've been staring at the page
For what seems like days
I guess I put this one off for a while
Did I see a tear fall from your eyes
Or did you laugh so hard that you cried
When I served my secrets on a silver tray to you
Hey now, I guess the night's just bringing me down

Chorus:
There's no love, there's no hate
I left them there for you to take
But know that every word was a piece of my heart

You've been the blood in my veins
The only one who knows my middle name
And the smiles they came easy 'cause of you
You know that I love you, but I hate you
'Cause I know I can never escape you
Let the choir sing for tonight I'm an easy mark
Hey now, am I acting just a little too proud

Chorus:
There's no love, there's no hate
I left them there for you to take
But know that every word was a piece of my heart

Have I said too much
Maybe I haven't said enough
But know that every word was a piece of my heart

Hush me darling, maybe I've lost my touch
Maybe I lost my guts-there, is that truth enough
Hey now, hey now
You know these love letters mix with whiskey
Just don't light a match when you kiss me
Though I'll blow away, you know I'll be back soon

Hey now, hey now, hey now, am I talking
just a little too loud

There's no love, there's no hate
I left them there for you to take
But know that every word weas a piece of my heart
Have I said too much
Maybe I haven't said enough
But know that every word was a piece of my heart
Hey now, am I talking just a little too proud
Hey now , the night's just bringing me down

It's just me

You know your favorite old pair of shoes
The ones with the hole in the toe you won't lose
Your favorite record that's all scratched and used
But still you love to play when you're feeling blue

That faded rose that's all dried out
Those Budowski poems we couldn't live without
Your high school picture when you had wild hair
That stormy day on the beach that got us here

Oh you better believe there's just one thing
you need
Can't you see....

Chorus:
It's just me baby
It's just me baby
If there's just one thing that you should keep
In your book of dreams
It's just me baby

Just like a shadow 10 feet tall
Standing right behind you should you fall
I'll be the one to hold you up to walk
When this wicked worldmakes us want to crawl

And if your waves should ever break at sea
I'll be there waiting, I'm that sandy beach
I'm that same old dog, scratching those same flies
I'll be by your side, you can count on me

Chorus:
It's just me baby
It's just me baby
If there's just one more thing that you should keep
In your book of dreams
It's just me baby
It's just me baby
What's it gonna take to make you see
What's it gonna take 'til you believe in me
Oh, how my smile fades and my heart just breaks
Every time you go away

Chorus:
It's just me baby
It's just me baby
If there's just one more thing that you should keep
In your book of dreams
It's just me baby
It's just me baby
What's it gonna take to make you see
What's it gonna take 'til you believe in me
And if someday some new memory comes along
Looking shiny new, feeling really strong
You can tell him that I'll tell him
He can just move on
I'm a fighter-I've been fighting for you all night long
It's just me baby

Destination Anywhere

Hey babe, it's me parked outside your house
I know that he's asleep, so listen to me
Darlin', I'm tired of just living in your dreams
I'm getting out
You know we both sold our souls
We're just growing old, in this sleepy, dead-end town

Chorus:
Destination anywhere
Name the place and I'll be there
Pack a bag and we're out of here-let's run

Baby, we both been running uphill for too long
We both settled for something, not nothing
And we both know it's wrong
Go on and admit it we lived it, I'm leaving-Get your
boots and come on
I got my coat and my keys, I need you next to me,
then I'm gone

Chorus:
Destination anywhere
Name the place and I'll be there
Pack a bag and we're out of here-let's run
Destination anywhere
Left or right, I don't care
Maybe we'll just disappear like the sun

When these wheels spin, they can all eat your dust
As far as I'm concerned, this whole town 's lost
its nuts
We won't be here when they put us down
It's your big chance and I'm calling you now
They'll never let us go unless we try
I'm tired of living just to die
We're getting out of here, destination anywhere

Chorus :
Destination anywhere
Name the place and I'll be there
Pack a bag and we're out of here-let's run
Destination anywhere
Left or right, I don't care
Maybe we'll just disappear like the sun,
come on, come on, come on

Learning How To Fall

I was walking on a wire
Looking down, there was no net
Now, I'm standing at your door
Me and my last cigarette

Yeah we've been through this before
Toolate to cover up my tracks
Damn the fool how begs for more
I'll take my past and paint it black
Now this circus has left town
This clown has got to get his feet back on the ground

Chorus:
I'm learning how to fall
Learning how to take a hit
Had to walk before I crawled
It was winner take it all
Now I'm learning how to fall
Yeah I got the hang of it
I was standing in the light
There were faces all around
I put my gloves up for a fight
One sucker punch and I was down

Chorus:
I'm learning how to fall
I'm learning how to take a hit
Had to walk before I crawled
It was winner take it all
I'm learning how to fall
Yeah I got the hang of it
I was flying through the clouds
Pucker up, it's time to kiss the ground

Chorus:
I'm learning how to fall
I'm learning how to take a hit
Had to walk before I crawled
It was winner take it all
I'm learning how to fall
Yeah I got the hang of it

Naked

My friend has a girlfriend
She liked her drink
Sucked the head off her lager
Threw me a wink
And she said to me "Buddy, what's your sign?"
I was off I was runnin'
Knocked me clean off my feet
Her tongue kept on selling
What any blind man could see
I just kept on stumbling through the stop signs
She said "What you hiding underneath that shirt?"
Right behind the buttons there's a heart that hurts
Adam's evening left the curse
Take it off make it work
Naked - Naked - Just get back to basics
Naked - Face it- you can't fake it when you're
Naked - Face it
The tail you been chasing
Put the K back in kink
Threw a coin in her hukebox
I started to think
She just smiled and offered me a peace sign

How far you gonna run in those designer shoes
The soul with holesain't gonna be the one you lose
I don't know which one is worse
Adam, me or you

Naked - Naked - Just get back to basics
Naked - Face it - you can't fake it when you're
Naked - Face it
All I'm saying

Take it, embrace it
Baby, here we are
Can't you almost.....taste it

Naked - Naked - Just get back to basics
Naked - Face it - you can't fake it when you're
Naked - Naked - Naked - Naked

Little City

I got my call light on
Gimme one more fare tonight
Just get me over the bridge
I can seen those shiny bay lights
You know I'm never alone
But I'm feeling lonely tonight
Damn, I got my last cigarette
But I ain't got no light
God let these wheels roll
To where the girls are pretty
Where the nights explode
And life is still living
Down this open road
The arms of pity
Wait to greet me tonight in little city

In my rear view mirror
I see someone else's hairline
I hear that fire in your eyes
Is on the rock and doing hard time
And the grapes of wrath, yhey're on the vine
There's wine in this dirt
Here love ain't love
It's just another four letter word
Chorus:
God let these wheels roll
To where the girls are pretty
Where the nights explode
And life is still living
Down this open road
The arms of pity
Wait to greet me tonight in little city

Now that cold gray fog's
Just a rolling down from the highway
He's come to carry me home
It's put a little smile on my face

August 7, 4:15

This song is dedicated to the memory of Katerine
Korzilius. Sometimes God calls His angels...too soon

It was another day
A perfect Texas afternoon
A mother and two children play
The way they always do
As they raced home from the mailbox
A mother and a son
Against a little girl of 6 years old
The independent one

The deputies went door to door
Through all the neighborhood
They said I got some news to tell you folks
I'm afraid it ain't so good
Somehow something happened
Someone got away
Someone got the answers for what happened
here today
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, no, no, no

Tell me it was just a dream - August 7 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7 4:15
Now the people from the papers
and the local TV news
Tried to find the reason
Cop dogs sniffed around for clues
Someone shouted "Hit and Run"
The coroner cried "Foul"
Her blue dress was what she wore
The day they laid her body down
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, no, no, no

Tell me it was just a dream - August 7 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7 4:15

I know tonight that there's an angel
Up on heaven's highest hill
And no one there can hurt you baby
No one ever will
Somewhere someone's conscience
is like a burning bed
The flames are all around you
How you gonna sleep again

Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, no, no, no

Tell me it was just a dream - August 7 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7 4:15

Cold Hard Heart

You loved to watch me sleep
You put your head down on my chest
To hear me breathe

Go on, take my last breath from me
I don't want to live mo more
And cut my eyes so I can't see
I can't see you looking back as you walk ou the door

Chorus:
Cold, hard heart
Cold, cruel heart
What's it gonna take
To break your cold, hard heart

I was a lover lost at sea
You found me washed up on the beach
You took me home, you gave me breakast
I said I'd offer you protection, but you didn't charge free

Chorus:
Cold, hard heart
Cold, cruel heart
What's it gonna take
To break your cold, hard heart

Cold, hard heart
Cold, cruel heart
What's it gonna take
To break your cold, hard heart

What are you hiding underneath that shirt
If you're the one to run baby
Then you don't feel the hurt

Her hair so brown, and eyes so green
You used to say I made good company
She'd bring me wine and sip her tea
Then you'd give yourself what you could give to me

Chorus:
Cold, hard heart
Cold, cruel heart
What's it gonna take
To break your cold, hard heart
Cold, cold heart
Your cold, cruel heart
What's it gonna take
To break your cold, hard heart
What's it gonna take

Bed Of Roses

Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment this morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think she's still in my bed
As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps its own beat in my head
While we're talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and what you mean to me
And the truth is baby you're all that I need

I want to lay you on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I'm so far away
That each step that I take is on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd given each night
Just to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time
Or it's hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I'll just close my eyes and whisper, baby blind love is true

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry
The barkeeper's wig's crooked
And she's giving me the eye
I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonite I won't be alone
But you know that don't
Mean I'm not lonely I've got nothing to prove
For it's you that I'd die to defend

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

These Days

I was walking around, just a face in the crowd
Trying to keep myself out of the rain
Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
Wondered if I might end up the same
There's a man out on the corner, singing old songs about change
Everybody got their cross to bare, these days

She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreams
To a motel room on the boulevard
I guess she's trying to be James Dean
She's seen all the disciples and all the wanna be's
No one wants to be themselves these days
Still there's nothing to hold on to but these days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
These days - are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
There ain't anybody left but but us these days

Jimmy shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to fly
From a second story window, he just jumped and closed his eyes
His mamma said he was crazy - he said mamma "I've got to try"
Don't you know that all my heroes died
And I guess I'd rather die than fade away

These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't anybody left but but us these days

I know Rome's still burning
Though the times have changed
This world keeps turning round and round and round and round
These days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't anybody left but but us these days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
There ain't no time to waste
There ain't anybody left to take the blame
And there ain't anybody left but but us these days
There ain't anybody left but but us these days

Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

Hey, man I'm alive I'm takin' each day and night at a time
I'm feelin' like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night

Hey, my name is Jim, where did I go wrong
My life's a bargain basement, all the good shit's gone
I just can't hold a job, where do I belong
I'm sleeping in my car, my dreams move on

My name is Billy Jean, my love was bought and sold
I'm only sixteen, I feel a hundred years old
My foster daddy went, took my innocence away
The street life aint much better, but at least I get paid

And Tuesday just might go my way
It can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind
But somehow I'll survive

Hey man I'm alive I'm takin' each day and night at a time
Yeah I'm down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man I gotta live my life
Like I ain't got nothin' but this roll of the dice
I'm feelin' like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night

Now I can't say my name, and tell you where I am
I want to roll myself away, don't know if I can
I wish that I could be in some other time and place
With someone elses soul, someone elses face

Oh, Tuesday just might go my way
It can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain't been kind
But somehow I'll survive

Hey, man I'm alive I'm takin' each day and night at a time
Yeah I'm down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man I gotta live my life
I'm gonna pick up all the pieces and what's left of my pride
I'm feelin' like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night

Saturday night Here we go

Some day I'll be Saturday night
I'll be back on my feet, I'll be doin' alright
It may not be tomorrow baby, that's OK
I ain't goin' down, gonna find a way, hey hey hey

Hey man I'm alive I'm takin' each day and night at a time
Yeah, I'm down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man, I gotta live my life
Like I ain't got nothin' but this roll of the dice
I'm feelin' like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
I'm feelin' like a Monday, but someday I'll be Saturday night
Saturday night, all right, all right
Saturday night

Wanted Dead Or Alive

It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night
Just to get back home

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it's not for days
And people I meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you're all alone all you do is think

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, still I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces
And I've rocked them all

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

Hey God

Hey God, I'm just a little man got a wife and family
But I almost lost the house, Yeah I bought into the dream
We're barely holding on when I'm in way too deep
We're two paychecks away from living out on the streets

She's a workin' single mom, like a Saint she don't complain
She never says a word, but she thinks that she's to blame
Her son just got convicted, he blew some punk away
She did her best to raise him, but the world got in the way

Hey God - Tell me what the hell is going on
Seems like all the good shit's gone
It keeps on getting harder hanging on
Hey God, there's nights you know I want to scream
These days you're even harder to believe
I know how busy you must be, but Hey God....
Do you ever think about me

Born into ghetto in 1991, just a happy child
Playing beneath the summer sun
A vacant lots' his playground, by 12 he's got a gun
The odds are bet against him, junior don't make 21

Hey God - Tell me what the hell is going on
Seems like all the good shit's gone
It keeps on getting harder hanging on
Hey God, there's nights you know I want to scream
These days you're even harder to believe
I know how busy you must be, but Hey God....
Do you ever think about me

I'd get down on my knees, I'm going to try this thing your way
Seen a dying man too proud to beg spit on his own grave
Was he too gone to save?
Did you even know his name?
Are you the one to blame, I got something to say

Hey God - Tell me what the hell is going on
Seems like all the good shit's gone
It keeps on getting harder hanging on
Hey God, there's nights you know I want to scream
These days you're even harder to believe
I know how busy you must be, but Hey God....
Do you ever think about me