i don't care about any of you and i don't care about what you're going through and you don't have to tell me what you're gonna do cuz i never met a person who could help me through yeah [get off my back] alright [hit the road jack] you should stay [but anyhow] outside [dead and gone now] take me for granted, it's a beautiful day and i don't care about what you have to say cuz it's best when we shut up, it's the natural way i don't care if you go, but you're welcome to stay alright [bought the farm out] me and mine [and shot me down] you can come [broken back bends] inside [towards a dead end] my past is dead, yeah my past is gone and the wind in my hair at the crack of dawn and i shouldn't say much, and i can't stay long because after you're hurt you should be moving on oh i [ain't that right friend] gave it a try [no you didn't] you can live [you can try to] you can die [that's also true]

put a mask on it, baby if you think that they can tell put the fix on it, honey if the thing ain't working well when they lay me in my grave with a smile on my face cuz i found it sorta funny that i died while saying grace stick a knife in it, darling if you think it's gonna live tie a noose round it, sugar while it's squealing like a pig when they wake me up the day that they're gonna put me down i'll be thankful for the fact that i can stop hanging around i'll tell you a joke johnny was having a smoke it was a beautiful day the rain was going away, my baby there in the sun i watched him cleaning his gun and when i got back in bed he shot himself in the head, my baby i'll sing you a song this life's a little too long it was a real drag to clean on easter 1916, my baby what a surprise, then when he opened his eyes and can you say sister sue what peter cottontail knew

i'll be there when the drugs are gone i'll be there when they're gone as hell i'm around but it's not like that [yes it is] yeah alright well i guess you'd know dollar bill buys a penny stock rise and fall on a cold grey wind waited years just to rip you off [yes i did] you'd best believe that it's happening money changes at the standard faire brought our hammers and we broke the bank under cover of a cold grey rain [loss and gain] rode into town on a paper tank had a headache so i bought a gun cuz the store was out of medicine left a note that said i hate you still [gone and died] they buried me inside an ATM

doing better than i thought i would be right now someone hurt me so much but i'm coming around i found you before i lost what's left of my mind lead a bird to the sky, but you can't make it fly whether you lose or win you will start losing friends i'm a jerk til the last that’s a means to an end so before we begin i will fool you again but it never looked right there in my collection writing you a love song and it's coming along i fly low to the ground god, its good to be wrong good for all aches and pains good for collapsing veins good for you you’re a star at the end of my days the next album or two i will write em for you he knows not what he does he knows just what to do when you're finally through and he moves to undo half the things that were right and all the things that were true bound to lose and to win and to rise and to fall good king arthur is dead who was handsome and tall bound to stand and to sing before the lord of song take me home country roads to the place i belong into the flood again same trip it was back then nothing breaks like a heart nothing dies like a friend in the church of good cross in the bank of fair lend an angel gets its wings for each dollar i spend doing better but don’t it always seem to go the profit and the loss and it was all yellow doing better but now world is turned upside down jimmy finn took a swim in his bathtub and drowned for the bold and the true themselves the traitor crew oh, what must be at last it had better be soon how the west wasn’t won having way too much fun and the first shall be last kill two birds with one gun

daniel might be the one for me i don't know i'll just wait and see i saw him suffer and i knew he would he looks exactly like a dead man should daniel in the lions' den dead trees where his house had been when i beheld the son of man in the image of the burning hand dull ash on the burning throne daniel in his car alone he saw me walking and i knew he saw judgment written in the book of law dead weight of the broken crown dead leaves on the dying ground i saw him suffer and i saw him healed in the image of the broken shield

thinking about my best friend wondering what happened to him moving back and forward baby boys got money to spend and its a hard rain i'm falling out of my own brain but i think i like it and i can't tell the future but 10 bucks says i won't be around flying south for the winter i'm moving fast and low to the ground xxxxxx and it's a phone call and like jay said, you watch me fall it ain't gonna save me

think i'm going to powhatan cuz i lied to my therapist knew my idea was trash right from the jump but that don't mean i won't finish it think i'm going to virginia night that they drove old dixie down friday night and the band is playing have me another night on the town give that man a fake cigarette watch him talking all by himself forgive him, lord, for he knows not what he does and forgive me too i'm not feeling well think i'm going to charlottesville dreamt that i dwelt in marble halls vassals and serfs and my high school sweetheart all who assembled within those walls sing a song of the commonwealth i saw nixon in gethsemane tricky dick in the county lockup you'll never guess what he said to me not a girl and not yet a crook looking for drugs in a southern town so could you not watch with me one hour matthew said to young goodman brown tell a tale of old dominion in the winter of '65 to tell the secrets of my prison house taint not thy mind nor let soul contrive sing a song of I-64 of my dead friends and the fall of rome this is the day that the lord has made us remember me when i go back home

where are they now who were my friends on our way out something happened but you know it never really does any good got a nagging feeling that it probably should ubi sunt i have a question those i love what happened to them probably got tired of your tiresome ways the sword is hanging high above the end of your days

if there's one thing i know it's where the sound comes from and goes if i go in and i win again someone should say that i didn't really win never change [so slow] never say things that you don't already know if i fade out or i die on you 1492, he sailed the ocean blue never change [so far] saw with my own eyes the prophet in the jar

get out of this sad quiet town i am standing in line i am wandering around and you've got drugs and i've got a friend with a car and a place we can stay there with him for the night the rain falls and steams on the street i am riding the bus i am falling asleep and we look good for a couple of ghosts i am 10 bucks and a brain and some bones and that's all i am