well I snuck to her window to leave her a note
will you come meet me at the back of the grove?
all the trees were in bloom that sweet smell in the air
we were trebling together we were young we were scared

true love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms
I can see her standing here
when I smell those orange blossoms then I'm there

we swam in the lake we watched fire flies by night
she was my princess and I was her Knight
but her daddy didn't like me He ain't like how I look
he said leave that boy be and that’s all that it took

true love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms
I can see her standing here
when I smell those orange blossoms
then I'm there

but I remember her vow How she wouldn't forget me
and all these years later I can't even remember her name

true love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms
I can see her standing here
when I smell those orange blossoms
then I'm there

where did she go

well don’t try to change the subject again
hide and seek with yourself it ain’t a game you can win
if ya gonna be dumb boy you got to be tough

if we changed up places you’d roll like a dime
yeah you hurt yeah you hurt yeah you know it ain’t right
I ain’t going I ain’t going to front you this time… because you…

you turned on me for the Devil you know
you turned on me for the Devil you know

well you can’t get free without some blood sweat and tears
that voice in your head has got you all balled up in fear
time to, to pack your bags and tell yourself goodbye

habit got you changed mind body and soul
and you’ll never feel free until you learn to let go of that
That bag full of bricks you been dragging around

you turned on me for the Devil you know
you turned on me for the Devil you know

seems like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good
seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good

your love is like the sweet forbidden fruit in life
i’m another woman’s man you’re another man’s wife
we both know the difference between right and wrong
life is full of temptation it’s hard to be strong

seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good
seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good

when I kissed your lips I made a big mistake
your love is like a habit a habit I can’t break
in my heart I lied cuz in my mind I know
with you I want to be with her I still belong

seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good
seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good

all the things you want to be maybe wrong to society
if there’s a choice between silk and satin they both feel good to me

seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good
seems Like everything good is bad
and everything bad is good

she believes in what I tell her she believes in what I do
many times I’ve spoke to hear my own voice
somehow she still believes

lord but she don’t know how much I love her
and she don’t know how much I need
if the morning finds her gone I don’t know that I could carry on
she don’t know

she believes in what I do she believes even if I don’t

lord but she don’t know how much I love her
and she don’t know how much I need
if the morning finds her gone I don’t know that I could carry on
she don’t know

darling wait for me I’m coming home
keep those home fires burning bright
don’t leave me alone

night becomes day
i’ll find my way
the golden moment has arrived

the bluest of blue skies
all I see when I open my eyes
heartache all that misery
can’t hold back the light of my life

night becomes day
i’ll find my way
the golden moment has arrived

one step closer to the truth – to the truth
one step closer to the truth – to the truth
one step closer to the truth – to the truth
one step closer to the truth – to the truth

no words can say No words won’t mean a thing
no answers tell what you mean what you mean to me

magnetism chemistry feel the electricity
coming off of you
there’s no need to try to hide that come hither in your eyes
I know you want it too

this is what you’re looking for
I seen it on the break
this is what you’re looking for

your fingers set a fire in my skin a deep desire
oh so naturally
don’t play shy or act afraid I fell in this trap you laid
oh so willingly
I feel it on the fly smooth as move with a velvet glide
do you want to really know the answers to
so many hard questions that you’re asking
baby how could I prove that I’m right

this is what you’re looking for
I seen it on the break
this is what you’re looking for
I know baby I know it and you know it
this is what you’re looking for

well she’s on the dance floor at your local jook
trying to sweat a bunch of fools she done already took
but when that gal gets down you can’t help but stare
cause that frames lit and smoking like a signal flare

she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire

we tried to look away we all tried to be cool
but she had an ass as thick as an army mule’s
she asked out for a drink just a batting those eyes
we all was reaching for our wallets man she’s a light

she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire

with a smooth proposition she’s got you in hand
I hear you say you don’t care boy are you a man?

she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire
she’s on fire

come on baby come on yeah
come on whisper in my ear
if you ain’t going to make your intentions sugar
make ‘em crystal clear
cause every second is another golden opportunity
slipping on by
another chance Lord another chance baby
for me to make it make it alright

so we
move it on over move it on
move it o over to the high side
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side

it’s a sticky situation Lord yes
when you don’t give a damn
and if you ain’t been taught some manners boy
then she’s bound to smack your hand

so you got to
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side

it’s a hard nose world that we live in
and we know life is full of pain
it’s a hard nose world that we live in
and its only love between us woman
keep us both from going insane

move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side
move it on over move it on
move it on over to the high side

sook operator since the day you was born
flash a little money from some rock you sold
well they say the higher you climb further you fall
then you’d leave your young’ns with nothing at all

spend the grocery money trying to make you a name
while your kids can’t read or write I guess you ain’t going change
and now you say they got you pimping for the DEA
rolling on your boys cause you say you getting paid

the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall

the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall
the higher you climb the further you fall

mama don’t you know how much I miss you
but I am stronger, stronger now
all these children cold faces Lord they followed me some how
I got to get away right now

mama ain’t a day goes by I don’t think about him
well I can see his face still
dull grey eyes burnt out to ash Lord to hell and gone again
I got to get away from him

i’m walking on moonlight
walking in the starlight place in my mind
walking on moonlight in the day
sipping on dew drops
float above the green treetops and it all
walking on moonlight in the day

i’m walking on moonlight
walking in the starlight place in my mind
walking on moonlight in the day
sipping on dew drops
float above the green treetops and it all
walking on moonlight in the day

the night is cold here on this ground
I hear that dog a howling makes me want to smile - cause
I know a rowdy place where
the whiskeys warm and women are too
when I get to Ybor City
all them women going to love me through and through

the tensions mounting boy them bullets fly
roll over on my back and stare into the sky
them stars look cold and lonesome
but I know where the ladies are sweet as wine
when I get to Ybor City
all the women going to love me out my mind

give me a minute boys
I ain’t dead yet
it’s just I’m tired of fighting
let me catch my breath - cause
I know a place that smells of
cigars and sweet, sweet perfume
when I get to Ybor City
all them women going to treat me like a king
when I get to Ybor City
all them women going to treat me like a king

all you women going to treat me like a king

all you women going to treat me like a king

fighting for my life said around midnight
all you women going to treat me like a king
all you women going to treat me like a king

I believe in everything
from a river running backwards
to a bee when it stings
and I believe
in the voices out here
telling me to hold on
but let go of my fear

a childhood imagination
has been my salvation
one cloud at a time
lord I’m dreaming
let me look upon her
one more time
this beauty that I love – she’s why

I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer

I believe in what I can’t change
in a hard lesson learned
and the strength from my pain
and I believe
in what I can’t prove
in the joy of not knowing
and the misunderstood

let go of my past
let go of my future
one cloud at a time
yes I’m dreaming
let me look upon her
one more time
this beauty that I love
before she’s gone, before she’s gone

I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer
I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer

the memory of one moment
is the beginning and the end of who I am

I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer
I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer
I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer
I believe in everything, in everything I’m a believer

tell me about something tell me about something you believe in
tell me about something tell me about something you believe in
tell me about something tell me about something you believe in

There's a war going on ⁄ And the ones about to die are safe at home ⁄ There's a war going on ⁄ And your world stops feeling now ⁄ ⁄ No it ain't about the same ⁄ I know your mama and your daddy didn't tell you a thing ⁄ About the price of fame ⁄ And your world she's so deep Lord she's deep in shame ⁄ ⁄ Ain't but one thing that's for sure ⁄ Everybody want some more ⁄ No one gonna do what's "right" ⁄ All we'll do is fight ⁄ ⁄ There's a war going on ⁄ And the ones about to die are safe at home ⁄ There's a war going on ⁄ And the world stops feeling now ⁄ ⁄ Way down deep in your soul ⁄ In that dark place you don't want to talk about ⁄ Why did you break the mold? ⁄ And your world she's so deep Lord she's deep in doubt ⁄ ⁄ Ain't but one thing that's for sure ⁄ Everybody want some more ⁄ No one gonna do what's "right" ⁄ All we do is fight

Some say that I wronged you but I don't know how ⁄ If I could make it right you know I would, you know I would ⁄ ⁄ So please forgive me for what some other man did too you ⁄ Before I came along ⁄ Cuz I don't want to go on fighting and fussing over something ⁄ I can't change at all ⁄ ⁄ There's no way I can change the past or your pain ⁄ I don't want to fight walking in circles ⁄ I'm not the one who hurt you so deep down ⁄ Let's start a new now walking in circles ⁄ ⁄ If time heals all wounds then change comes slow - so slow ⁄ But if I see a smile on your face the sun may yet Lord shine on us ⁄ ⁄ There's no way I can change the past or your pain ⁄ I don't want to fight walking in circles ⁄ I'm not the one who hurt you so deep down ⁄ Let's start a new now walking in circles ⁄ ⁄ I'm not the one who hurt you so deep down ⁄ Let's start a new now walking in circles ⁄ There's no way I can change the past or your pain ⁄ I don't want to fight walking in circles ⁄ I'm not the one who hurt you so deep down ⁄ Let's start a new now walking in circles

I see the look in your eyes I know I'm simple and plain ⁄ A country boy can't survive too many ways in your game ⁄ So you can say what you will about your helping hand ⁄ I know I'll never be more than just your dumb white trash ⁄ ⁄ Life in a country ghetto ⁄ ⁄ Love touches us all yes we're black and we're white ⁄ Out here in the cut still living side by side ⁄ So never mind what you've seen and just forget what you've heard ⁄ Another ignorant redneck just some Hollywood words ⁄ ⁄ Life in a country ghetto ⁄ ⁄ No I'm not tame ⁄ The only voice that speaks for me speaks from this clay ⁄ Little boy you ain't never take a dime from the man ⁄ Starve to death before you live by a government handout ⁄ They call us poverty ⁄ ⁄ Life in a country ghetto

For his pleasure he sits sweating ⁄ The ghost of a man who now haunts himself ⁄ Hear the steady tick of time like a levee ⁄ Holding in his troubled mind ⁄ He was proud he was strong ⁄ Now he's counting back the days to what went wrong ⁄ A pipe a dream a fearful scream ⁄ All these FBI agents hiding in your pine trees ⁄ ⁄ Lord it is tragic ⁄ ⁄ Burning faster than a fuse lit from both ends ⁄ He spirals down ⁄ At the ready with a list of excuses ⁄ Most of his friends they don't know him now ⁄ The family's tired and confused ⁄ He's still trying to make an offer they can't refuse ⁄ Is he clean is he free ⁄ Are those FBI agents still hiding in his pine trees? ⁄ ⁄ Lord it is tragic

There, there's a time ⁄ and a place for everything ⁄ Hear these fools tell you who you are ⁄ but you don't hear a doggone thing ⁄ And maybe that's why, why I love you ⁄ Maybe that's how I feel your pain ⁄ Cuz we're both falling down ⁄ and there ain't nobody to blame ⁄ ⁄ I ain't going nowhere ⁄ I ain't gonna hide ⁄ I ain't going nowhere ⁄ with you by my side ⁄ ⁄ There, there's a road ⁄ that we walk but cannot see ⁄ Feel its spirit come and go ⁄ make me whole shape me out of clay ⁄ Now you know just how feeble ⁄ and how weak a man can be ⁄ And still you're pleased, ⁄ pleased to be with me anyway ⁄ ⁄ I ain't going nowhere ⁄ I ain't gonna hide ⁄ I ain't going nowhere ⁄ with you by my side

That stormy morning ⁄ felt like a dream ⁄ he told me then ⁄ of what he'd seen ⁄ ⁄ A child a man ⁄ in times gone bad ⁄ faces of stone ⁄ lined hard and sad ⁄ ⁄ One Sunday day ⁄ they all came home ⁄ all that they had ⁄ was burned and gone ⁄ ⁄ The timber men ⁄ their pistols gleamed ⁄ a lifetime lost ⁄ on Palastine ⁄ ⁄ He made a stand ⁄ he would not run ⁄ he dropped the hoe ⁄ and picked up the gun ⁄ ⁄ And then one night ⁄ he disappeared ⁄ it fed the worst ⁄ of all their fears ⁄ ⁄ They found him quiet ⁄ high in a tree ⁄ he flew away ⁄ from Palastine ⁄ ⁄ Then came the day ⁄ they moved away ⁄ more gunmen came ⁄ they could not stay ⁄ ⁄ To Glen St. Mary ⁄ to Olustee ⁄ but we still dream ⁄ of Palastine

Don't you ⁄ Don't you hear ⁄ Footsteps a coming?

Deep in the piney woods ⁄ Breathe it til your head ache ⁄ Working for six dimes ⁄ breathe it til the ground shake ⁄ ⁄ Lord and that fever's high ⁄ Hard luck life ⁄ Hurry boy ⁄ The sun is going down ⁄ ⁄ Deep in the piney woods ⁄ Hell in its own place ⁄ Working that sticky gold ⁄ flowing from a cat face ⁄ ⁄ Lord and that fever's high ⁄ Hard luck life ⁄ Hurry boy ⁄ The sun is going down ⁄ ⁄ Deep in the piney woods ⁄ Hell in its own place ⁄ ⁄ Lungs can't breathe ⁄ Poisoned heat ⁄ Fever's high ⁄ Hard luck life ⁄ Heavy load ⁄ Like a stone ⁄ Hurry boy ⁄ The sun is going down

In the morning she'll show you how much she loves you ⁄ And when the night comes you need to show her too ⁄ You got to touch her in that way don't you ever stop loving her ⁄ And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄ ⁄ Now any old fool can stay through the good times ⁄ And any old fool can run out on her ⁄ So you got to buckle up and face that stormy weather together ⁄ And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄ ⁄ There's a place Lord there's a place where a man can't go ⁄ She said, "you better not put your hands on me ⁄ unless you, unless you're ready to love me" ⁄ And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄ And that's how a woman got to be loved by her man

Well I dearly love my home but ⁄ She never looked so good to me ⁄ Blue skies and dragonflies ⁄ Muddy creek Lord set me free ⁄ ⁄ Good things are going on ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ She made me feel good ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ ⁄ Folks smiling and saying hey ⁄ In my car as I'm passing by ⁄ And I can smell those barbeque grills ⁄ firing on the fourth of July ⁄ ⁄ Good things are going on ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ She made me feel good ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ ⁄ Good things are going on ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ She made me feel good ⁄ there in Mississippi ⁄ Everybody moving everybody grooving ⁄ everybody letting it all get loose ⁄ there in Mississippi

How many more days can you hold out ⁄ How much longer can you wait she asked ⁄ There was a time I thought I, I could answer ⁄ But my tongue gets tied as my thoughts drift away ⁄ ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ The sun is shining, shining down ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ I'm alive and I'm feeling, feeling fine ⁄ ⁄ All those simple thoughts all those peaceful dreams ⁄ Share the space with a hard worked, hard worked day ⁄ But it's the little things, the little things not expectation ⁄ That make life worth living, worth living ⁄ ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ The sun is shining, shining down ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ And the world Lord, world is fine ⁄ ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ The sun is shining, shining down ⁄ Glory, Glory - Hallelujah ⁄ I'm alive and I'm feeling Lord, feeling, feeling, feeling fine

No you can't break me ⁄ but I know that ain't right ⁄ No you can't break me ⁄ but I know that ain't right ⁄ ⁄ So hard to say goodbye ⁄ ⁄ They can't break me ⁄ and I know it ain't right ⁄ Well they break me ⁄ but I know it ain't right ⁄ ⁄ So hard to say goodbye ⁄ ⁄ Well they break me ⁄ but I know it ain't right ⁄ Well they break me ⁄ but I know it ain't right ⁄ ⁄ So hard to say...

Everybody's looking ⁄ You're the talk all over town ⁄ When y'all walk the street ⁄ He's got a smile you got a frown ⁄ Too many folks talking about what you ought to do ⁄ And not what you gonna do ⁄ Still ain't right for that man to get on top of you ⁄ ⁄ That Boy don't love - He's afraid of you ⁄ ⁄ We heard he slapped you around ⁄ And I know that shit ain't right ⁄ One minute y'all get along ⁄ And then the next you fuss and fight ⁄ Sugar wouldn't melt in his mouth according to you ⁄ Next day we see you girl you all black and blue ⁄ ⁄ That Boy don't love - He's afraid of you ⁄ ⁄ Now your moments come ⁄ You've got to break out on your own ⁄ Girl you can't live in fear ⁄ Inside that place you call your home ⁄ It's time to turn him out turn him loose just walk away ⁄ He's just a mama's boy let him cry girl let him cry ⁄ ⁄ That Boy don't love - He's afraid of you ⁄ That Boy don't love - He's afraid of you

Homesick but it's alright ⁄ Lochloosa is on my mind ⁄ She's on my mind ⁄ ⁄ I swear it's ten thousand degrees in the shade ⁄ Lord have mercy knows - how much I love it ⁄ ⁄ Every mosquito every rattlesnake ⁄ Every cane break - everything ⁄ ⁄ Every alligator every blackwater swamp ⁄ Every freshwater spring - everything ⁄ ⁄ All we need is one more damn developer ⁄ Tearing her heart out ⁄ ⁄ All we need is one more Mickey Mouse ⁄ Another golf course another country club ⁄ Another gated community ⁄ ⁄ Lord I need her ⁄ Lord I need her ⁄ And she's slipping away ⁄ ⁄ If my grandfather could see her now ⁄ He'd lay down and die ⁄ ⁄ Cause every minute every second every hour ⁄ Every day - Lord she's slipping away ⁄ ⁄ Homesick but it's alright ⁄ Lochloosa is on my mind ⁄ She's on my mind

Looking for something to prove ⁄ Looking for something to say ⁄ We eat our grits and we don't mind sweet in our tea ⁄ ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Their TV taught them ⁄ Mercy for the Wise ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Call me dirt floor cracker ⁄ But them words just feel me with pride ⁄ ⁄ You seem so pleasant ⁄ You've got something to say ⁄ But them words you speak deep down ⁄ Loving to irritate ⁄ We're not that fooled by ya ⁄ This hard head ya see ⁄ You keep your money coming ⁄ We'll feed ya cheap cornbread and ⁄ Them grits keep flowing baby ⁄ Psy-collard greens and ⁄ My mama said hey boy ⁄ Listen to what they mean ⁄ ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Their TV taught them ⁄ Mercy for the Wise ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Call me dirt floor cracker ⁄ But them words just feel me with pride ⁄ ⁄ We got the soul but you ⁄ Don't want the feeling - ain't right ⁄ We go them moves but you ⁄ Decide to pull it tight ⁄ You think you got - but it ⁄ Its like the road you say ⁄ You about to move it 40 ⁄ We got the record playing ⁄ ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Their TV taught them ⁄ Mercy for the wise ⁄ All they've ever known ⁄ Call me dirt floor cracker ⁄ But them words just feel me with pride

When we were youngin's ⁄ We used to play all day ⁄ Lord and when the night came ⁄ Oh them lights would dance away ⁄ Oh so good so warm it felt to play ⁄ Like being in your mama's arms ⁄ so safe ⁄ ⁄ Where did all the fireflies go? ⁄ Hold your breath no more movement in the night ⁄ Where did all the fireflies go? ⁄ I heard someone say ⁄ they ain't never coming back ⁄ ⁄ Running wild feeling oh so free ⁄ Trying to light the night up ⁄ With the fire inside of me ⁄ Oh them lights Lord they let me be me ⁄ Where did all the fireflies go where did they go? ⁄ ⁄ Where did all the fireflies go? ⁄ Hold your breath no more movement in the night ⁄ Where did all the fireflies go? ⁄ I heard someone say ⁄ they ain't never coming back

In the deepest hour ⁄ No man can say for sure ⁄ When them hard times fall on you ⁄ Where you gonna run boy where you gonna go ⁄ Running hard running fast running low to the ground ⁄ Boy keep you head down ⁄ Cause when that devil sneaks up behind you ⁄ He'll never make a sound ⁄ Lord evils here you know it well ⁄ ⁄ In the deepest hour ⁄ Lord I feel it coming down ⁄ Tide rolling in black as blood in the mangroves ⁄ A lonely life ⁄ No one sees no one hears ⁄ But a foot waving by and by ⁄ From the other side of hell ⁄ But when them cold steel blue eyes fall on you ⁄ Yeah you feel it now ⁄ Lord evils here you know it well ⁄ ⁄ In the deepest hour ⁄ Lord times have changed ⁄ On that black Monday Lord 1910 ⁄ When that hurricane rolled in on us ⁄ Now all these boys walking around ⁄ All these boys talking big just like they was men ⁄ But it's easy to talk so loud ⁄ Now that Mr. Watson's gone from Chatham Bend

Six ways I've been pulled ⁄ Six ways to lose my mind ⁄ They'll turn your pockets out ⁄ Boy leave you dead or dying ⁄ Tough love can get to rough ⁄ When the good times start to slide ⁄ Them words ringing in my head ⁄ Watch the hair go with the hide ⁄ Hollering ⁄ ⁄ Six ways from Sunday ⁄ Mama let me be ⁄ Six ways from Sunday ⁄ Darling let me be ⁄ Tomorrows a new day dawning ⁄ Might be for you ⁄ Six ways from Sunday - Hollering ⁄ ⁄ Broke down and tied to the ground ⁄ Like a mule on the down side ⁄ Yelling gee and yelling haw loud ⁄ In my ears till I want to cry ⁄ But that whip don't mean too much ⁄ When a mule ain't got a chance ⁄ Let 'em roll watch how they fold ⁄ Victims of their circumstance ⁄ Hollering ⁄ ⁄ Six ways from Sunday ⁄ Mama let me be ⁄ Six ways from Sunday ⁄ Darling let me be ⁄ Tomorrows a new day dawning ⁄ Might be for you ⁄ Six ways from Sunday - Hollering

Out in the garden ⁄ Till the sun goes down ⁄ Work the handle till my fingers bleed ⁄ Made you the big man in town ⁄ ⁄ While my child hood was a wasting ⁄ While my child hood slipped away ⁄ ⁄ I was born on the wrong side of the tracks ⁄ So I left but I'm still looking back ⁄ Everybody's got a tell of sorrow ⁄ Try to forget it ⁄ But I can't let go ⁄ ⁄ I used to watch the hobos ⁄ With a jealous eye ⁄ Cause for me there's no rails to ride ⁄ Just the pain to survive ⁄ ⁄ All this time I've been a wasting ⁄ All this time done slipped away ⁄ ⁄ I was born on the wrong side of the tracks ⁄ So I left but I'm still looking back ⁄ Everybody's got a tell of sorrow ⁄ Try to forget it ⁄ But I can't let go ⁄ ⁄ Time ain't standing still ⁄ And there ain't no way to get it back ⁄ All this looking over my shoulder ⁄ A bad habit ⁄ ⁄ All my life I've been a wasting ⁄ All my life done slipped away ⁄ ⁄ I was born on the wrong side of the tracks ⁄ So I left but I'm still looking back ⁄ Everybody's got a tell of sorrow ⁄ Try to forget it ⁄ But I can't let go

So precious and fleeting ⁄ I loved them all ⁄ Time to go ⁄ ⁄ Down the street ⁄ I watch you go ⁄ Like there's no tomorrow ⁄ Where we know ⁄ ⁄ Cause Everybody's is gone ⁄ And all the old lamps are burning out ⁄ And all those voices of joy and laughter ⁄ Well them new folks done moved them out ⁄ But if I listen close I can hear them ⁄ Lord they're calling me to come on ⁄ It's just a matter of time ⁄ Cause I got nowhere left to call home ⁄ ⁄ I see you waiting ⁄ But I know you won't understand ⁄ Sand falling on through - through my hands ⁄ ⁄ Cause Everybody's is gone ⁄ And all the old lamps are burning out ⁄ And all those voices of joy and laughter ⁄ Well them new folks done moved them out ⁄ But if I listen close I can hear them ⁄ Lord they're calling me to come on ⁄ It's just a matter of time ⁄ Cause I got nowhere left to call home

The rattlesnake lift his head ⁄ The horse he rolled to the ground ⁄ The rattlesnake lift his head ⁄ The horse he rolled to the ground ⁄ Busted daddy into - you know it brung him down ⁄ ⁄ Picking tobacco ⁄ Out in the Georgia sun ⁄ Picking tobacco ⁄ Out in the Georgia sun ⁄ Gal youngin' I'll whup ya - if you afraid of worms ⁄ ⁄ The man in the big house ⁄ Lord you know he always frowned ⁄ The man in the big house ⁄ Lord you know he always frowned ⁄ Hit them fields - until the sun goes down ⁄ ⁄ Come on in gal ⁄ Get up off your knees ⁄ Come on in gal ⁄ Get up off your knees ⁄ All we got - cornbread and black-eyed peas ⁄ ⁄ If it don't kill you ⁄ Lord it will make you strong ⁄ If it don't kill you ⁄ Lord it will make you strong ⁄ No way to right - a world that was never wrong

Me and my friends out late one night ⁄ 4 drunk sailors looking' for a fight ⁄ One pulls a pistol and he sticks it to my head ⁄ A voice in my mind says, "Son you are dead" ⁄ ⁄ Just another scrape but we make it out alive ⁄ Some make a living' tryin' to steal your pride ⁄ Others talk color but I know it's all the same ⁄ Never saw a bullet that didn't know a name ⁄ ⁄ Young jitterbug tryin' to play that game ⁄ Always showing' out as if it was a game ⁄ Bragging 'bout jacking people every chance he gets ⁄ Young jitterbug best watch your step ⁄ ⁄ Jits with his girl out dancing' on a wire ⁄ Car pulls up and opens fire ⁄ Pull up to the scene there's a whole lot of cryin' ⁄ Young jitterbug girlfriend lay dyin' ⁄ ⁄ Just 2 stories how things go down ⁄ On any given day in this little Southern town ⁄ There's a lot of slow walking' and a lot a sad singin' ⁄ All throughout the memories the gun shots ringin'

Ain't much changed around here since the beginning of time ⁄ People born, people live, people kill, people dieing ⁄ In a vague memory of the time I was born ⁄ Flash of light thunder rolled now I'm here now I'm gone ⁄ ⁄ But do you, do you, do you know where your goin' ⁄ ⁄ No effort, no gain ⁄ No effort, stay the same ⁄ No don't you ever try to live a lie ⁄ ⁄ Bittersweet memories of the road to my regret ⁄ Tryin' to change the whole world ain't nobody did it yet ⁄ Yeah this life can be cruel yeah this life ain't always fair ⁄ Yet we hope to ascend to the place we send our prayers ⁄ ⁄ But do you, do you, do you know where your goin'

Well the sky is ashy white ⁄ And the fields are burning bright ⁄ When all we love fades out of sight ⁄ Pray for rain ⁄ ⁄ The lake is going down ⁄ Lord to make a greener ground ⁄ For all the folks who live in town ⁄ Pray for rain ⁄ ⁄ Pray Lord pray for rain ⁄ Pray pray for rain ⁄ ⁄ Well the creek is going dry ⁄ And the towers are built so high ⁄ There the devil sits on high ⁄ Pray for rain ⁄ ⁄ The lake is going down ⁄ To make a greener ground ⁄ For the folks who live in town ⁄ Pray for rain ⁄ ⁄ Pray Lord pray for rain ⁄ Pray pray for rain

Been doin' a lot of hidin' ⁄ Tryin' to get away from myself - granny say ⁄ How you gonna live come tomorrow ⁄ Roll black water roll ⁄ Roll black water roll ⁄ ⁄ I left home for the good life ⁄ But man I felt alone - daddy say ⁄ How you gonna live if you don't know which way up or down is ⁄ Roll black water roll ⁄ Roll black water roll ⁄ ⁄ I woke up in a city ⁄ And I ain't know which way was home ⁄ Guess I'm gonna leave come tomorrow ⁄ Roll black water roll ⁄ Roll black water roll

My Granny makes the best cracklin' ho cake ⁄ It tastes so good I can't wait to dip my plate ⁄ She's cookin' ham hocks in some white-acre peas ⁄ She's cookin' turnip greens and macaroni and cheese ⁄ Get on out my way I got to ease up to that pot ⁄ I like my cornbread while it's still piping hot ⁄ I love this food Lord I can't get enough ⁄ Stick ya hands near my plate, you'll draw back a nub ⁄ ⁄ I 'member it happened back in 1978 ⁄ Daddy caught me tryin' to steal a pork chop off his plate ⁄ He snatched it back and I gave him a little sass ⁄ He quick whupped off the belt 'n started whuppin' on my ass ⁄ I learned a lesson 'bout what this food can do ⁄ It can talk yo ass in to turning black-and-blue ⁄ So all you kids keep yo hands to yo on supper ⁄ Cuz if you let that food do the talkin' yo tail might suffer ⁄ ⁄ I love smoke mullet, hush puppies and grits ⁄ I love them catfish and I love them popcorn shrimp ⁄ I love fried chicken and I love them collard greens ⁄ I love them black eye peas and them lima beans ⁄ I love that ox-tail soup with a little rice ⁄ I love them candied yams and sweet potato pies ⁄ I love it all Lord I just got to holler ⁄ Tastes so dad-blame good I can't even swallow

This is the world in which we live ⁄ This is all take and no give ⁄ Every comfort for you, you , you ⁄ Only gonna do you blind a whole lotta people can't see that high ⁄ ⁄ This is the house that which we built ⁄ This is the place where we found guilt ⁄ Break a bad habit let it go ⁄ It's harder still you know ⁄ ⁄ Want a little peace of mind? ⁄ Then grab the lowest branch and start to climb ⁄ ⁄ We've been walking on air y'all, we've been walking on air ⁄ ⁄ The invitation's in ⁄ If it beats all git out then do it again ⁄ Less than pleasant then put it to shame ⁄ Only gonna do you blind ⁄ A whole lotta folks can't see that high ⁄ ⁄ We've been walking on air y'all, we've been walking on air

Down at the jookhouse baby - Down at the house ⁄ ⁄ I done been around the world ⁄ I done seen people everywhere ⁄ But they ain't nobody that can move ⁄ move ya ass like these people down here ⁄ You got the soul we got the slip ⁄ we gonna go barefottin' with the Southern trip ⁄ leave the fools with fools a kickin' that leash ⁄ but throw off that leash and get with the grease ⁄ ⁄ We got D over here ⁄ We got Robbie over there ⁄ We got Chris over there ⁄ We got Amy and Turtle and Mike and Jeanie ⁄ What's yo name, I don't know? What's yo name? ⁄ Jim Mao ⁄ My Bad. What's yo name? Jim Mao ⁄ There we go. ⁄ Get up and dance around ⁄ Git into the greasy of the soul funk sound ⁄ we got no time for people who slip ⁄ we go - we got to kick it on down ⁄ kick ya shoes off and jump around ⁄ and act like a fool to the sound ⁄ of the funky little jookhouse groove we got ⁄ and if you don't git it ⁄ hmm...I don't know why.

If this a big party then everybody dance ⁄ got a little idea what ya gonna ⁄ People wanna try to play me ⁄ like I don't know what I'm talkin about ⁄ cuz I'm a fool, but I figured it out. ⁄ ⁄ Mama gonna tell me what I don't wanna ⁄ she keep tryin' to - tryin' to play me ⁄ Woman don't leave me for another man ⁄ cuz if you do... I don't even wanna be around ⁄ ⁄ My baby's coming home ⁄ but I ain't gon' get nare sugar tonight

Some people think they're free ⁄ if they get to do just what they want to do ⁄ and do nothing, nothing else ⁄ ⁄ Some people want to lead their life ⁄ others want to follow but it's ok ⁄ cuz every man got to walk his own way ⁄ ⁄ Don't be hesitating ⁄ there's no contemplating ⁄ no there is no waiting - you got to live free ⁄ Wealth ain't necessary ⁄ some think it's to scary ⁄ quite the contrary - you got to live free ⁄ ⁄ Some people complicate their lives ⁄ others keep it simple ⁄ and that's a little bit closer to the truth ⁄ that we all seek ⁄ ⁄ We pledge allegiance to anything ⁄ that takes our mind away ⁄ Freedom ain't cheap, naw freedom ain't easy to get ⁄ ⁄ Don't let go ⁄ some let go ⁄ ⁄ Don't be hesitating ⁄ there's no contemplating ⁄ no there is no waiting you got to live free ⁄ Wealth ain't necessary ⁄ some think it's to scary ⁄ quite the contrary you got to live free ⁄ ⁄ All them things you say ⁄ all them things you do ⁄ they won't mean a thing if you don't live free ⁄ All them things we say ⁄ all them things we do ⁄ they won't mean a thing if we don't live free

I remember my granpa tellin' me ⁄ about the early days of Florida ⁄ Born a swamp cracka' 2 miles from Grannies Bay ⁄ comin' up the way of the wilderness ⁄ ⁄ No car phone or electric light ⁄ just livin' life one day at a time ⁄ No newspaper no war and no stife ⁄ just the elemental keys that provide for life ⁄ ⁄ Florida I know you're out ther hidin' from me ⁄ you get harder and harder to find ⁄ Everyday she keeps slippin' away ⁄ Florida please don't fade on me now ⁄ ⁄ Autumn sun set mornin' skies ablaze ⁄ the oaks and the pines turn their palms up to the sun ⁄ the kind of beauty that hits down in the soul ⁄ and still we're hell bent to destroy it all ⁄ ⁄ With concrete and steal we pave ⁄ a road to hell on a land we've killed ⁄ so take a good look and remember it now ⁄ cuz one day ya gonna wake up and find it gone ⁄ ⁄ Now skyscrapers and superhighways ⁄ are carved through the heart of Florida ⁄ Building sub-divisions while the swamps are drained ⁄ makin' room for people and amusement parks ⁄ ⁄ It's like watchin' someone you love die slow ⁄ Yeah they're killin' her one piece at a time ⁄ I know some fools who think I should let go ⁄ but they never seen Florida through my eyes ⁄ ⁄ Florida I know you're out ther hidin' from me ⁄ you get harder and harder to find ⁄ Everyday she keeps slippin' away ⁄ Florida please don't fade on me now

It's ok daddy wanna play ⁄ Have you been wantin' some of the same? ⁄ Sho' do wanna get with you ⁄ Fe Fi, baby wanna ride ⁄ Kisses are right on time ⁄ Let's get back in that groove - yeah yeah ⁄ ⁄ It's a slow, lazy summer ⁄ Yeah the perfect time to hook up with you ⁄ For some old fashioned lovin' ⁄ In the middle of the heat of June ⁄ ⁄ Circle fly, I wanna sail I wanna stretch across the sky ⁄ Deep in the heart of blue ⁄ A tall glass of lemonade and a ⁄ Hammock swingin' baby we got it made ⁄ Is that somethin' that you don't do? yeah yeah ⁄ ⁄ It's a slow, lazy summer ⁄ Yeah the perfect time to hook up with you ⁄ For some old fashioned lovin' ⁄ In the middle of the heat of June

Off and to the right, the fade of the light, I'm watching the sun go down ⁄ Over the fields, we see the one, that little girl to make, make my heart pound (yes she do) ⁄ But don't you know that that's forbidden, son you better get rid of them ideas, they'll lead to a hangin' ⁄ ⁄ When I was young ⁄ You know that I believed ⁄ In Santa Claus, true love, and freedom ⁄ ⁄ Pushin' back the fear, sneakin' off to see her, and we'd dream to leave this land ⁄ Then her family would say, boy ya better stay away, if your daddy finds out you're a dead man ⁄ Leave me to die, my way my time, how can a man Lord chain a man ⁄ ⁄ When I was young ⁄ You know that I believed ⁄ In Santa Claus, true love, and freedom ⁄ ⁄ Those days are gone ⁄ Might as well leave them be ⁄ No more Santa Claus, true love, and freedom

Playful days you know I got a lot of memories ⁄ of growing up deep in the South at a time when people cared ⁄ I didn't know I had it good I was to busy playin' games ⁄ livin' childhood dreams and fantasies ⁄ ⁄ Slip-n-slide play hide & go seek 'round the swing set ⁄ climbin' trees me and my partner play the man with the golden bar ⁄ Mama callin' out to me tellin me "don't wander off to far" ⁄ "dinners almost ready and ya got to come in soon" ⁄ ⁄ Show me the way back to those days ⁄ Show me the way back to those days ⁄ ⁄ Truth or dare kissin' icky girls at the playground ⁄ sno-cones for foul balls ⁄ throwin' pennies on the tracks and playin' in the rain ⁄ oblivious of the world around us that was going insane ⁄ Lord feel that vibe Lord feel that vibe ⁄ ⁄ Show me the way back to those days ⁄ Show me the way back to those days ⁄ ⁄ I was born in the South a long long way from anywhere ⁄ comin' up through troubled times but I did not know to even give a care ⁄ Life was good simple to the point of makin' do ⁄ path ahead of me mysterious indeed all brand new ⁄ and now they fade memories hold my place in time ⁄ While I'm waiting for the changing of the tide ⁄ The thrill is gone and with it went my wings to fly ⁄ Guess we'll have to climb one step at time ⁄ ⁄ Yeah we climb one step at a time, yeah we climb ⁄ Do you want to climb the higher mountain with me now? ⁄ Do you want to climb the higher road to where we go?

Don't stop even for the right thing ⁄ does it matter what I say? ⁄ My whole world was by that river ⁄ flowin' north to meet the sea each day ⁄ I don't want to move away ⁄ ⁄ You look at me and ya say "what's wrong boy?" ⁄ What else do you want me to say? ⁄ I don't want to leave tomorrow ⁄ been and gone but I belong here now ⁄ Your big world can wait another day ⁄ ⁄ Brighter days where did they go? ⁄ ⁄ I am hopeful for where I'm goin' ⁄ but I belong in the South ⁄ That was where I's born a po' boy ⁄ livin' life like there's no end in sight ⁄ Even so I've done without ⁄ ⁄ Brighter days where did they go? ⁄ ⁄ Boy you about to hit the bottom ⁄ I'll be alone I feel I'm movin' where ⁄ To a land you never saw ⁄ and I see you 'bout to hit the bottom ⁄ Lord help me move away ⁄ to a land you never saw ⁄ and I've seen ⁄ ⁄ Brighter days where did they go?