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Drive-By Truckers - 3 Dimes Down - lyrics

It was a straight shot
All it took was luck to not get caught
I laid three dimes down and the machine wanted 25 cents
In the back seat her and a friend,
One out the window and the other on the other end
One belt loop away from Sunday night's news
If the part about being who he was didn't help Tom get loose,
What's a guy without a T. gonna get? Totally screwed,
While chicken wing puke eats the candy apple red off his Corvette
Three dimes down and 25 cents shy of a slice of the Doublemint twins
Come back baby, Rock and Roll never forgets

Drive-By Truckers - A Ghost To Most - lyrics

I guess I'll never grow a sideburn
It's a shame with all I've got to go between
I hope somebody's cause takes soon
It's getting hard to find a place a root can sink
Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice
Thanks to her I can think clear enough,
To be thankful that she died before tonight
Saving everybody takes a man on a mission
With a swagger that can set the world at ease
Some believe it's God's own hand on the trigger
And the other dumping water in the streets
Talking tough is easy when it's other people's evil
And you're judging what they do or don't believe
It seems to me you'd have to have a hole you're own
To point a finger at somebody else's sheet
Baby every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn't matter if they did
But skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick they're money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides you're a ghost to most before they notice,
That you ever had a hair or a hide
I don't know how good it does a man,
To keep on telling him how good it is he's free
Free to wash his ghost down the drain,
And free for them to tell him there's no such a thing

Drive-By Truckers - A World Of Hurt - lyrics

Once upon a time, my advice to you would have been go out and find yourself a whore
But I guess I've grown up, because I don't give that kind of advice anymore
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
I was 27 when I figured out that blowing my brains out wasn't the answer
So I decided, maybe I should find a way to make this world work out for me
And my good friend Paul was 83 when he told me; that "To love is to feel pain"
And I thought about that then and I've thought about that again and again
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
"To love is to feel pain" there ain't no way around it
The very nature of love is to grieve when it is over
The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits
Better roll them now before something else goes wrong
Know it's a wonderful world, if you can put aside the sadness
And hang on to every ounce of beauty upon you
Better take the time to know it,
If you feel anything at all
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
So if what you have is working for you, or you think that it stands a reasonable chance, and whatever's broken seems fixable and nothing's beyond repair
If you still think about each other and smile before you remember how screwed up it's gotten or maybe still dream of a time less rotten
Remember, it ain't too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you've got
It's great to be alive
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt

Drive-By Truckers - Aftermath USA - lyrics

When I crawled out of bed this morning
I could tell something wasn't right
There were cigarettes in the ashtrays
They weren't your menthol lights
There were beer bottles in the kitchen
And broken glass on the floor
Someone must have slipped me something
Passed out a couple days before
The car was in the carport sideways
Big dent running down the side
Never seen anything as frightening
As when I took a look inside
Smell of musk and deception
Heel marks on the roof-line
Bad music on the stereo
All the seats in recline
The aftermath staring me right in the face
I'll get around to breaking even one of these days
My credit cards have all been maxed out
The meat in my freezer all thawed
The IRS laid the facts out
It's all worse than I thought
The welfare lady said enough is enough
The kids ain't been to school in weeks
Crystal-meth in the bathtub
Blood splattered in my sink
Laying around in the aftermath
It's all worse than you think

Drive-By Truckers - Birthday Boy - lyrics

Which one's the birthday boy?
She said, "I ain't got all night"
What your momma name?
You can call me what you like
Every skin in history
Gotta make it hard somehow
Sit your bare ass down right here
I'll solve yours right now
Got a girlfriend, don't you, boy?
Nervous hands can't lie
Married men don't ask how much
Single one's ain't buy
One day you've got everything
Next day it's all broke
Let this Trixie sit up front
Let her wipe your nose
Working for the money like you got eight hands
Flat on your back under a mean old man
Just thinking happy thoughts, breathing in
Between your momma's drive and daddy's belt
It don't take smarts to learn the tune
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Pretty girls from the smallest towns
Can't remember life's storms and droughts
That old men talk about the years to come
I guess that's why they give us back
So few old man can say
They saw us when we were young
Which one's the birthday boy?
She said, "I ain't got all night"
What your momma name?
You can call me what you like

Drive-By Truckers - Angels And Fuselage - lyrics

Looking out the window, the trees are getting closer it seems.
Thinking bout you Darling.
Adding up the cost of these dreams.
Strapped to this projectile, just a blink ago I was back in school.
Smoking by the gym door, practicing my rock-star attitude
And I'm scared shitless of what's coming next.
I'm scared shitless, these angels I see in the trees are waiting for me.
The engines have stopped now. We all know we are going down. Last call for alcohol.
Sure wish I could have another round.
And I'm scared shitless of what's coming next.
Scared shitless, these angels I see in the trees are waiting for me.
Waiting for me.
Friends in the swamp.
Friends on the ground, in the trees.
Angels and fuselage.

Drive-By Truckers - Birmingham - lyrics

Economics shut the furnace down
Bull Connor hosing children down
George Wallace stared them Yankee's down
In Birmingham
Take a left on the interstate
In the middle of this sultry state
I can't wait to see your face
In Birmingham
"I don't think it was worth it"
the last thing Stanley said to me
Twenty four years then a bullet in the chest and
I still see him in my sleep
Fifteen dollars in the purse He could not save
Her family didn't buy a stone to mark his grave
"Give me a call, if you need a place to stay in Birmingham"
Birmingham
Most of my family came from Birmingham
I can feel their presence on the street
Vulcan Park has seen it's share of troubled times
But the city won't admit defeat
Magic City's magic getting stronger
Dynamite Hill ain't on fire any longer
No man should ever have to feel He don't belong in Birmingham
Birmingham

Drive-By Truckers - Mrs. Dubose - lyrics

(Malone/ Cooley, Hicks, Hood, Malone)
Jupiter mules kickin' out all the stops
Newfangled dogs danglin' stars from her eyelids
She can't read between the lies anymore
Lord, help her rise just one more time if you can.
Still, the children read to her
till she opens up her hands
When my body dies will you remember my name?
When my body dies will you remember my name?
Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower
now you're all dead inside withered and insane
Oh, Mrs. Dubose you were such a flower, you got the death,
the dust, and the opium runnin' through your veins
Black maid stays cause she's paid to be around
Condemned and scared for all she knows
You better look at the road when you pass
she gonna fix you with that evil eye
unless your hotdin' your old man's hand
you better pass on by better pass on by

Drive-By Truckers - (It's Gonna Be) I Told You So - lyrics

I don't even like the way it sounds
One day it's gonna be I told you so
I'm expectin' that you're gonna be down
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told
You never listened to a word I said
One day it's gonna be I told you so
I told you something and you kicked me in the head
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told
I'd like to catch you when you're fallin'
But you're too busy for me, darlin'
I tried to tell you you'd be fallin'
Now go on home and do your bawlin'
You picked up crazy and you let it in your head
One day it's gonna be I told you so
I'm all full up from the shit I was fed
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told you so
One day it's gonna be I told

Drive-By Truckers - 18 Wheels Of Love - lyrics

Mama ran off with a trucker
Mama ran off with a trucker
Mama ran off with a trucker
Peterbilt Peterbilt
He is making her give life another stab
They can see the world from way up in the cab
Mama ran off with a trucker...........
Peterbilt Peterbilt
She can quit her job and be his little bride
He can get a local route and stay home by her side
She can fix him roast beast and sweet potato pie
He can eat a lot of it cuz he? a big ole guy
They got married in Dollywood
(by a Porter Waggoner lookalike)
18 Wheels of Love
for Mom and Chester, on the occasion of their marriage, July 1994
lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers
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