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They Call Me Crazy
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They Call Me Crazy
Can't change what I've done, babe
But I'm gonna change them all around
They just want to waste their time away
Badmouthing me down to the ground
I don't care what you say, babe
I'm gonna stand up for what I found
(C) I've been burned and cheated, ignored and mistreated
Treated like the fool in the crowd.
They say they know me - but they don't know me.
I hear them laughing out loud.
They call me crazy. I wasn't crazy then but I think I'm going crazy now.
I can't keep up with all the in-jokes
I can't stand the talk much at all.
I figure they're just asking me questions
Just to see me fall off the ball
I'll be the butt of their jokes anytime
but don't be calling me your friend at all.
Chorus
I don't know the sound of my telephone ring
I got the sound of my radio on
I can pick up on all kinds of things
and put all these friendships down in pawn.
I been alone my whole life
Never had much fun yet at all
Mama used to call me her sunshine
but the darkness ain't paid me at all
I tell you all because you been shattered
don't you go throwing me against your wall.
Chorus.
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Break From The Blues
03:29
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Break From The Blues
You say that I been crazy - ain't been pulling my weight
I been picking the blues hauling on the interstate
You say the choice is up to me, babe
it's any old road that I choose.
But can I count on you to give me a break from the blues.
You want me cooking, cleaning - taking out your trash.
Don't wanna be no mama in no pad I can't crash.
I look forward to you, baby, each and every night
but all you want to do is sit and nitpick and fight.
You want me to promise to every plan that you make -
but I spent all my money on every chance that I take.
All that I want is for my baby to chill -
but she can't kiss when she's running lord she'll never stand still.
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Good Time Charlie Blues
04:21
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Good Time Charlie Blues
I'm just a good time Charlie - I don't want no blues
don't spoil my party - I won't have to walk in your shoes
Don't need no bad luck - don't play me for no fool
I've learned too many lessons maybe i got a lesson for you
Some people say hard times is just the way it goes
you hang out with trash -smelling everytime the hot air blows.
Got no use for no doctor - I'm as clean as can be
don't mess with my prognosis you're messing with the likes of me
Good time Charlie - he's a man with a smile
He's got just one woman and she never drives him out of his mind.
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Deal With It Tomorrow
02:42
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Deal With It Tomorrow
I'm homing in on a scrap seems all my patience is gone.
She's gonna let me go and I'm tying one on.
Everyday I see her and she sings me the blues.
I can't stand to imagine anyone in my shoes.
If she's driving, I'm drinking - turn out the light.
Deal with it tomorrow like we did last night.
She's hell bound to perfection getting low on my cash.
She knows how to style me when I'm letting her crash.
Lights go red and I run right through.
She's drunk on my rye and I'm singing the blues.
I think she assumes I ain't burning to bright.
Deal with it tomorrow like we did last night.
Sometimes I wonder if I've had enough
whipped in a world of her conditional love.
She lives on a treadmill of thrills and chills.
Adds fun to the mix of my world of ills -
nothing like living on the edge of a fight.
Deal with It Tomorrow like we did last night.
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City Blues
05:29
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City Blues
Woke up this morning - alarm clock where my rooster should go
Can't take these city blues - always around my steel door
I used to care more for people - these days it's hard to anymore
you could be dying and lonely and they'd rather talk to their cell phone
I'm a train rider baby - don't know when my train is going to go
they don't make rails to ride these trains on no more
nothing is sacred - but won't you buy my masterpiece?
it's hard to tell a lifer in this world full of wannabes.
Things have changed around us but we don't have to go that way.
We'll be up on the mountain
while they're putting chips in their kids brains.
Woke up this morning - alarm clock where my rooster should go
Can't take these city blues - always around my steel door.
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Internet County Jail.
I never meant to be drifting like a ship out on the sea.
Watching through the tears while my baby packs to leave.
I used to sit and blog - never had no time -
to hang out with my baby - because I was doing time
I did 8 years in the internet county jail -
it was a hard drive crash and the sunshine paid my bail
ain't nobody taking any time to wonder why
the less outside you live - the more inside you die
I was sold to the devil - before I came out for some air
my eyes were going blind on me and i didn't even care
They can have their computers - I'm all roped in
and going down to the country to get myself some real friends
I did 8 years - I didn't know where the road went wrong
But my face was a spacebook and I was youtubing all night long.
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Hell In a Handbasket Blues
Better have fun while it lasts - 'cause we'll be living in our pasts
and the sun will burn the brains we'll never use
and the corporations will smile while we bathe in their greedy bile.
We've got the going to hell in a handbasket blues.
The tycoons think it's some joke - they say it don't matter how we'll croak.
If there's distinctions from born to win and born to lose.
While this whole world is filling up - with those who can never win enough.
we got the going to hell in a handbasket blues.
The politicians scoff and the scientists cough - and the world at large
remains deluded and confused
while this whole world turns to sports - big box teen pop and porn
we've got the going to hell in a handbasket blues.
These days we'll buy the toys - corporate time killing ploys -
so few see that they are still being lied to
every dollar that we'll spend - to send this little world to it's end
we've got the going to hell in a handbasket blues.
Some folks say I'm kind - some folks say I'm blind
when I sing about where we're heading to -
I could say we're propogated - until we're annhilated.
got the going to hell in a handbasket blues.
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They Call Me Mr. Wrong
04:08
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They Call Me Mr. Wrong
They call me mr. wrong - I can't be happy when she's down
I sing myself this song - everytime she ain't around
When she's happy I'm happy
Can't even remember how she cried
suddenly her mood is crappy - and for myself I'm terrified.
The only good times - are the ones for which I've paid
I can count on piece of mind - as long as she gets her way
Don't mean to paint no picture - but what else could I do?
My life would be so much richer - if I could only talk to you.
Someday i'll have a mind - and out the back door I will go.
And you will all call me so unkind - but I can't take it anymore.
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Nothing To Lose But The Blues
I want to sing until the blues come out no more
a song that nobody can ignore
we used to rock and roll -we used to get along
you made my life into some old country song.
I tried to love but trying never wins
the more you want seems the less you gonna get
so keep the hard times coming - I'm paying all my dues
and I've got nothing to lose but the blues
I want to lose the blues that nobody can find
i'm sadhearted and losing all the time
I had a lot to laugh about but now the joke's on me
yesterday made a big fool out of me.
tomorrow's bound to be another day
another layer to cover up the wound.
if I could only build me a time machine
that machine would have steered clear of you.
Now your pride is sinking so fast -
and your happy faces make my sad face last
so keep the hard times coming - I'm paying all my dues
and now I've got nothing to lose but the blues.
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Hard Times You Must've Had
Hard times you must've had
I can see how hard you're worn
you worked from town to town
long before i was born.
Chasing down your highway
all your life in your sack
down to your next dirty job
a life you don't want back
Damn making a living
how did you leave your home?
were you tired of being told what to do?
or did you have itchy heels to roam
how did you wind up my father?
how did you even survive?
sleeping in the cold cold ditches
hard times you must have had.
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Paternity Blues
03:10
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