Now, every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl Well, love and hate tattooed across the knuckles
You say you're down on your luck Hey baby, it's a long, long way up Hold back now, hold back your fears You say you're really down and out And you feel
When I grow up, gonna be a star Gonna sing my songs and play my guitar, I?m ready Gonna change the world, gonna turn the page Gonna say what I feel, let
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 You won't see these kids in heaven Colored hair and funny clothes They are the menace of today And they won't listen to what you say
I'm broken hearted I'm a broken man Driven by anger On that night I ran I had me a woman I thought that she'd be true Now she's gone and left me You know
I woke up today feeling pleasantly guilty yeah I was worried about the things I'd said the things I'd done and in my dreams last night I found a love
I'm your worn in leather jacket I'm the volume in your fucked up teenage band A bag of smokes and a six pack I'm the dreams you had walkin' down railroad
I was brought in this world 1962 I didn't have much choice you see But by the time I was eight I could tell it was too late I was already barking up the
In a police car I feel so very small I see my lover's face and I watch her teardrops fall and I try to figure out where I'd fallen off the tracks well
Ever since my baby left me You know this ghost town ain't no fun no more She stole my heart away from me And then she dropped it on the floor My outside
Everybody wants a lover Nobody wants to uncover What may lay deep beneath A sometimes painful past Wanna go without a care Pull gardenias from her hair
An hour of anger, an hour of love This hour of confusion as I look above Death, life as I've never seen before One more trip like, that I'm in the mental
I believed I was wrong but baby Now I know, you and your evil Ways gotta go. Take the key and Break away these chains of love And I'll thank the good
Well, there ain't no use to sit and wonder why If you don't know by now And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why It doesn't matter any how When the
With friends like you who needs enemies? You ain't right, you ain't never gonna be You're out of the car, I'm afraid you've been declined You shake my
I know a girl who warns of the dangers of love All the pain and the anguish, the sorrow that it brings She keeps herself in a world that's protected Her
Take a drive baby up the coast, yeah highway 101 I'll pass Ventura and Santa Barbara too, just as fast as my motor runs Gotta pocket full of memories,
Under my thumb The girl who once had me down Under my thumb The girl who once pushed me around It's down to me The difference in the clothes she wears