One Of These Days Lyrics - Drive By Truckers

If I had a dime for every time I heard my old man say 

One of these days 

I wouldn't be like my old man today 

Talking bout places that he'd been 

Back in his younger days that he was gonna go back to again 

One of these days 

Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen 

Fell right in to a tire plant 

Building the very things that make the asphalt sing 

And put Alabama far behind you 

I remember him saying that Chicago was a hell right here on earth 

And twenty five years later I was saying the same thing about Memphis 

It's no wonder every body's scared of downtown Birmingham 

It's just a little too close to home 

But there's more crooks down here and the cops don't care, 

While old white men wearing ties can do anything they want. 

Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises 

Off a man's insides on the sidewalk 

Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything 

And he goes back to where he came from 

One of these days when my face looks like a road map gonna find my way back home. 

And I'll go walking on the west side after dark and leave my gun locked in my car. 

One of these days you'll take one look at me and run. One of these days you'll take 

One look at me and run.