Tomorrow I ride at dawn Like my father And his father And his father before Watched the soil burn with fire War after war Done things I didn't know I could For the common good Give a man a hundred years

Maybe now he could prove to her That he could be good for her And they should be together You're not like other people, you do what you want to He fell for her again, she watched it happen Every day, day by day But more important, night by night She

And I, I would die for you And when you're gone, time is so slow And like the grass, I've watched us grow You are everything to me There have been times when I'm up all night Crying in the dark, so I sleep with the light on I've heard I've got words like

Between the sloe gin fizz and fast women I'm stuck in a place my Mama's King James calls sinning But it feels so good where I'm sitting I've shown up every night like the night before Watched the pretty women filing through the door I mix a drink, I tune

In a round of bullets and blood and smoke, I saw the midnight come and I watched her go. I watched her go. I got a razor sharp mind that wants to cut you down. A little place in mind and baby I could let you down. Pony up, we got a ways to go. Set me up

I had her on ice, but then Blue faces, I got blue diamonds, blue tint, yeah Look who I'm fuckin' again I watched the ice get thin Now, does she sink or swim? Double my price again Top of the charts, back in they hearts Nigga, he strikes again, whoa Some

The house was like a tomb. I was hiding in my room. As my brother made his way on down the hall. I didn't want to say goodbye. And I was trying to deny there was a war, And that he got the call. I watched him from my window Walking down the drive. Then I

They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark She looked at him and he felt a spark Tingle to his bones 'Twas then he felt alone And wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate They walked along by the old canal

It was pretty in May, but it died in June I watched her go After she planted her love in the top soil And from the top soil an iris bloomed If I could be just one thing I would be what you’re craving Six foot three with steel blue eyes Sweep you off of

Ooh, ooh, run the other way from a heart like mine I watched out the window As you drove away But we got so much history, baby Too much good love to throw away I know I can be a headstrong man Got a jealous streak a country mile wide Its just that I'm so