That Girl From Brownsville Texas Lyrics - Jim White

I say "God, if you ain't smiling on me, 

then you ain't no friend of mine. 

" It's late at night and this motel room's 

drunk, I been listening to the lonesome wind crying. 

My best friend once said, "Jim, what you cling to, that's the thing 

that you had best forget. For ain't no rose bed ever 

gonna bloom in an untended field of regrets." Guess I been busy 

killing time counting bullet holes in state line signs. 

I led a life of lonely drifting trying to rise above the buzzards 

in my mind. You get dizzy chasing 'round the tail of 

what you need to leave behind. Oh sweet Jesus, won't you help me? 

'Cause all I'm trying to do is plant them seeds of 

love with that girl from Brownsville, Texas. Midnight radio, a crackly 

white gospel station kicking out the sounds of some 

half-assed revival. Me, I never much cared for the feelings you get 

quoting scriptures from out of the Bible. 

For as the crow flies I know only one cure for a permanent 

tear in your eye. You 

gotta crank like hell that rope on old sorrow's well 

'til the day that the bucket comes up dry. 

[CHORUS] 

Now dreams are just 

prayers without the put on airs. 

. and though my history of dreams is a scandal of 

back-assward schemes and romantic 

disasters where Lord, you dealt me more cards than 

I could handle. Still from the lips of this half-hearted sinner comes 

the pledge of a half-baked saint. 

'Cause Lord I might finally be willing to become the 

religious fool you always wanted me 

to be... if in return we could just tell that girl 

I'm the man you and me both know that I ain't. 

[CHORUS] 

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