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Lyrics for Back To The Wall by Steve Earle:
| | | Artist: | Steve Earle |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Back To The Wall | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 84 | | | | Lyrics: | Well sometimes in the evenings I start to get that feeling
Like I'm empty inside
I know
I'm doin' good now but tonight I'm headed downtown
Down by the riverside
I sit
underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old days
And a bottle of wine
Well he
used to call me ";Big Time";, and he knew someday that I'd shine
Said he'd seen all the signs
He said . .
";Keep yourself to yourself
Keep your bedroll dry
And boy you
never can tell
What the shadows hide
Keep ene eve on the ground
Pick up whatever you
find
'Cause you've got no place to fall
When your back's to the wall";
He's
gettin' old and it's showin' when I asked him how it's goin'
He said ";I've seen better I guess
I've been rained on, I've been frozen, but this here's the life I've chosen
If it just
wasn't for the loneliness";
Now this river suits me to a T. but if you're trying to raise
a family
It ain't no place to be
There's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in
grade school somewhere
Now he hangs out with me
And I told him . . .";
Well we
finished off the bottle and I told him,";Joe I think I ought to
Be headed uptown";
Well it
was late, and I'd been drinkin', drivin' home I got to thinkin'
'Bout what's been going down
Cause they're nervous down on Wall Street, but they're trying to keep it upbeat
Or
maybe they just don't care
But down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables
turnin'
So if you wind up down there . . . | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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