One Paper Kid Lyrics - Guy Clark

Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb 

Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind 

Ah, the distance was short so light it again 

It don't take no time to get where I am 

But the one paper kid wasn't really so mean 

He's just a little bit scared and a little bit green 

And he'd heard of a place that was legal to dream 

So he sat with his coffee and a blue Texas wind 

And wrote on the rock "the one paper kid, he's rollin' again" 

The driver was drunk or he just didn't see 

The future was there: it'll happen to me 

And all the time that he wasted was his once again 

It never takes too long to go where you've been 

There's broken hearts scattered all over the past 

And old bad memories tryin' to last 

Whiskey and women and growing up fast 

Fussin' and lovin' and itchin' like grass