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

They sat together in the park as the evening sky grew dark She looked at him he felt a spark tingle to his bones It was when he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate They walked down by the old canal a

I was watchin’ cartoons on a Saturday morning And I heard daddy start the truck I came runnin’ from the house and waved him down 'Cause he was makin’ a run to the dump We watched the Bears and licked ice cream cones Take a little walk around I’ll never

I should be loving you Don’t say goodnight We just watched it burn Know we could’ve kept going by I tried to find the truth And I ain’t there with you I never listen, I never listen All the things you said I’ll never hear again

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

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

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

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

Here until I'm gone Just hanging on Even though I watched you come and go How was I to know You'd steal the show One day I'll have enough to gamble I'll wait to hear your final call and bet it all

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