Born like everyone with a slate as clean. Baby grew into a boy and started building steam. Boy learned how to blow it off in a dangerous kind of way. Well fellas here he comes that runaway train.
(Chorus:). If I was a truckin' man. I'd be a gear jammer with a one-armed tan. I'd spend my nights in the roadhouse. Days on the lost highway. Hey, if I was a truckin' man.
Why are you striving these days?. Why are you trying to earn grace?. Why are you crying?. Let me lift up your face, just don't turn away. . Why are you looking for love?.
The way his shoulders bore the world. You could see he'd loved the girl. He looked like he'd walked through hell. On a road the rest of us knew well. I said, "friend, I've worn those shoes.
(Today I can feel it touching home). Today pain became a real life's hurtin' thing. And the choir of loneliness sang me a song. Now I know what it means to lose a lifetime dream.
There goes my reason for living there goes my everything. I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor. And a voice is softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more.
Things I would do. . Apologize, bite my tongue. Swallow my pride, just shut up. Change my tune, clip my wings. Take it back, everything. . Things I would do just to have you back again.
There goes the boy from Santa Fe. Who lost his momma in the second grade. Played Romeo in his high school play. He's never been in an aeroplane. . There goes the boy who goes to town.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Ev'ry evenin', when the sun goes down. And nobody can see me. I get my Chevy an' I cruise around. Makin' love on my CB.
(There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll). (C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Well, it's only gonna be about an hour, friend. 'Til they dam your favorite river.
(Walt Meskell, Tim Martin). . Just another Texas bus stop. Texas never seems to end. On my seventh cup a' coffee. Waitress, hit me once again. Gotta date in Colorado.
(Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . How long has it been. Since you got up on the early side a' mornin'?. And saw the sun a-risin'. Bright an' shiny on the eastern side a' day?.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . One green April mornin', when I was a young boy. I lay by the window, a-watchin' the rain. And I wondered if ever the sun would come shinin'.
(Chip Davis, Bill Fries). . On a cold November mornin'. Back in nineteen-thirty-seven. With an early snow a-fallin'. On the three-foot tracks at Ames.
(Ron Agnew). . The cowboy will never get married to you, girl. It's the fightin' that he just can't bear. But when there's women and whisky and beer-drinkin' brawls.
Well, in eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum-dum. Dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah da-da-da. . Dum dum da-dum-dum-da-dum.
(Ron Agnew). . Take my duds to the junkman. Give 'im ev'rything I got. Take my brass belt buckle an' my turquoise ring. I gotta get out while I'm hot.
You spun that web baby, you made that bed baby. You built that brick wall that you're running into, ooh, ooh. You bare that cross baby, I pay the cost baby.
I'm a rock nobody can roll. You say I got a heart as solid as stone. I ain't lonely, just alone. Yeah and I like it that way. . I've been burned with ashes before.