Cottenseed Lyrics - Singles - Drive By Truckers

I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds 

To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes 

Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true 

Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze 

It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes 

And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door 

They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong 

I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all 

I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit 

I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my boot 

I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased 

And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed 

I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned 

But a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from 

The meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the key 

But they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe 

Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judge 

The last one that I dug myself 

And I must admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could 

Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good 

There's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonight 

All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side 

Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths 

If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down" 

I ain't here to save no souls and even if I could 

I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took 

So if they rest in torment you can't say it's cause of me 

They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee