Don't want no high rise tombstone Gonna gather up my saints Don't wanna hear you fussing If it is or if it ain't My life needs no witness And my burden is my own You gotta answer to somebody If you didn't learn then you didn't read Gotta live with it

Walk slow and low on a tightrope Hope it lasts but you know, you never know Up high in the middle of nowhere Don't know but you know when you get there You never know Take a chance we can dance up in mid-air Feel so good, I could die, but I don't care

Trust yourself And don't believe in anymore lies Yeah yeah yeah Someday soon When the sun comes up And a broken cup And don't believe in anymore And I don't know when Your little world

The calloused hands upon the plow I loved you then and I love you now, Reuben James Reuben James Reuben James, you still walk the furrowed field of my mind The faded shirt, the weathered brow In my song you live again And the phrases that I rhyme Are

Nothing comes as easy as you Can I lay in your bed all day? I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake Hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday You look so good in blue Light a match to leave me be So wear me like a locket around your

Yeah when that summer sun starts to beatin' down And you don't know what to do Inflatable pool full of dad's hot air I was three years old Splashin' everywhere And so began my love affair With all my friends

I want to live my life again But you won't I'll never understand the winds I didn't know I was afraid But you did I want to do it again Do you want to live forever? (Omnipotent, omnipotent)

Layla, you've got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind. What'll you do when you get lonely And nobody's waiting by your side? You've been running and hiding much too long. You know it's just

Mama look at me now Mama look at me now (hey) When I was younger no one ever could tell me How to live my life They called my mama just to tell her Well, mama look at me now Catch me waving from the sky in a brand new G-5 They said that kid was on slide,

Hank let's talk about your daddy tell me how your mama loved that man Well just break out a bottle hoss I'll tell you bout the driftin' cowboy band We won't talk about the habits just the music and the man Now Hank you just got to tell me did your daddy