Early Out The Gate Lyrics - Singles - The Good Life

What you're looking for is never what you find 

Nothing ever seems to turn out right 

Still running around still searching 

all these long indifferent streets 

For your lover or some cover 

to protect you from the heat 

That you feel inside 

inflamed since you learned to cry 

Ever since you learned to walk you ran away 

kept running till you couldn't feel your legs 

Now you stumble round this drunken town 

pawn shops and titty bars 

telling tales of just how far you got 

But they'll all know who you are 

Yeah you're not so great 

You're just early out of the gate 

there's a portrait of your mom when she was young 

Her face was shining brightly as the sun 

The son who got away from her 

but came back home again 

to find a women wrapped 

with all this love she couldn't give 

But you know she did 

You just couldn't feel it then 

Found a birthday card from this lady I used to know 

It said boy you're really starting to get old 

She's the mother of my mother 

I knew just what she meant 

She'd been through it before 

she'd known of all of this resentment 

becomes regret 

I just hadn't gotten there yet 

Nothing ever seems to turn out right 

No never, never seems to turn out right 

So I leave it at this 

my deep blues need rest