At General Delivery she picks up her mail Her momma says Johnny just got out of jail She hopes he don't know where she's at How could she have ever loved
The first man that you ever loved Left your mama, never said goodbye to anyone And you were raised with your head held high But any fool can see it's
I saw you talking to a friend of mine I asked him what you had to say You told him that I wasn't doin' to good I guess, I couldn't argue either way There
When the sun went down You were sitting under someone else's sunset And I wasn't around And you were wishing that I was a guy that you'd just met And
My first love was a wicked twisted road I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old I never saw the rainbow much less a pot of gold Yeah, my first
You're hiding from love You see, you don't need it But if that were true You could take it or leave it Well, you gotta learn to walk But you're afraid
Well, I got empty bottles and legal papers Wrinkled up all over the floor My pen won't write and my guitar doesn't Have a song in it anymore I can write
Lets put on the Wiggles & pop a couple Ritalin Papa dont blame mama or tell her how lazy shes been Its been prescribed by a doctor and the doctor said
Everybody held their breath when you walked in Guess no one thought to tell me you were back in town again Everyone remembers how you shut me down And
Corn don?t grow around here We ain'?t seen a drop all year But there?'s one place I know Where the grass grows free and the waters flow Just knock on
I've been looking For a girl like you And I wish You were looking for me too But you don't want me around No, you don't want me around No, you don't
So your baby got the whole town talking And they say you better open your eyes And you act as if you never saw it coming Even though you got some good
Roll on You wild western windblown band Life's waitin' up the road for you and the future's in your hands Well I don't fly no aeroplanes And I don't
How was California? Did they teach you how to surf? Was it everything they said it was? Was it all that you deserve? Or did you hate the Golden State
I don't know why you want me I just can't see If you'd done half the things I'd done to you to me, I'd walk away Leave without a trace, I couldn't stay
I had a sweet thing going On the high side of town I tried to fit in her world But it came crashing down She was mine for awhile She was so fine for
I can make you a believer in fate Divine intervention and signs of the sun You came to me not a moment too late With death at my door and time on the