I'm rockin' around the square and now everybody's rockin' tonight
I'm going to rock you baby
With all my rocking might
(All right, Scorchers, let's do it
Look out, London, here come the Scorchers
Crank it up, boys, let's go)
Every time I see my baby she's in the arms of another man
Every time I see my baby she's in the arms of another man
Every time I fall in love I'm
Shot down again
Well I went to love my little girl
She said "Jason, this is a sin"
Well I wanted to love my little girl
She said "Jason, this is a sin"
Every time I fall in love I'm
Shot down again
Well today I saw my baby
And Lord, it made me high
But when I tried to kiss her
Jerry Falwell shot tear gas in my eyes
Well I went to love my little girl
She had a golden wedding band
I walked these midnight streets alone
Bloodstains on my hands
Every time I fall in love I'm
Shot down again
I said down, down
Shot down baby, baby, baby
Shot down honey, honey, honey
You went to church in your party dress
Tryin' to live those blues that you read
From a rock n' roll magazine so neat and clean
I tried to fight through that emptiness
I feel every time you undress
'Cause your bedroom heroes fade away
When the morning ray shines down
But I can't go on living in your broken whiskey glass
Someday you'll find an epitaph that reads
"Here lies Jason: strangled by a love
That wouldn't breathe"
You went to Memphis to find yourself
Read every Elvis book on the shelf
Even popped a pill or two to feel like a honky-tonk star
But the river didn't seem so wide
'Cause you were looking out but not inside
White soul heroes are made of more than
?
I can't go on living in your broken whiskey glass
Someday you'll find an note and it will read
"Here lies Jason: strangled by a love
That wouldn't breathe"
Hear that lonesome whooperwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is runnning low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves turn brown and die
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I never seen a night so long
When the leaves turned brown and died
The moon just went behind the clouds
I'm so lonesome I could die
The silence of the falling stars
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could die
Hear that lonesome whooperwill
He sounds too blue to fly
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'm so lonesome I could die
Well I love the women and I love them all the same
I love the women and I love them all the same
Well I love the women
But not enough to give them my name
These womens makes a fool out of me
Lord out of me
When I take a girl to dinner she hangs around my neck
When I take a girl to dinner she hangs around my neck
She also pays my taxi
She also pays my check
These womens makes a fool out of me
Lord out of me
Well I rubs my back with alcohol just to cure my cough
Well she rubs my back with alcohol just to cure my cough
Well I almost broke my back
Trying to lick the alcohol off
These womens makes a fool out of me
Lord out of me
Rollin' down the window
Listen to the radio
Baby wants me to stay
But I think I'm gonna go
If I had a dollar
Stopping at the corner store
Buy myself a popsicle
Take her to the disco
Baby
I'm like a bird out on a wire
Every time I get next to you
You holler out,
"Help! There's a fire!"
Rollin' down the highway
Nothin' less anyway
Tryin' to make a saint inside
And changin' every night and day
I wanna be your lover
But you tell me that I'm just a kid
Not another guy around
Give you lovin' like I did
Baby
I'm like a bird out on a wire
Every time I get next to you
You holler out,
"Help! There's a fire!"
I'd rather die young
Than grow old without you
So don't ever leave me
Whatever that you do
To see someone's picture
?
Believe me my darling
I'd rather die young
I'd rather die young
Than grow old without you
Don't ever leave me
Whatever that you do
To see someone standing
Where I used to stand
Believe me my darling
I'd rather cut off my hand
Don't ever leave me alone
Don't ever leave me alone
So save all your sorrow
For a sweet another day
Believe me my darling
I'd rather pass away
Candy kisses
Wrapped in paper
Mean more to you
Than my sweet love
You don't mean it
When you whisper
Pretty love words
In my ear
"Jesus gives to those who give themselves"
That's what you said, do you say that now?
'Cause in my arms you took until I bled
But still I went down every road you led
So the gun was all I had to set me free
I couldn't fight the devil's seed
So the trigger pulled and the red lights flashed their sign
The battle was yours but the victory is mine
It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
Ten lonely years but how my heart it still remembers
Pray for me, Momma, I'm a gypsy now
So I journey back now to your lonesome grave
Searchin' for one thing in my self to save
'Cause when the gun went off I closed an open door
Now it's locked and chained forevermore
Hello walls!
Well how things go for you today?
Don't you miss her?
Since our darling went away
And I'll bet you dreamt you'd spend
Another lonely night with me
Lonely walls, I'll keep you company
Hello windows!
Well I see that you're still here
Aren't you lonely?
Since our baby disappeared
Well look here is that a teardrop
In the corner of your pane
Now don't you try to tell me that is rain
She went away and left me
So alone the way she planned
She went away and through my heart
Inside a garbage can
Hello ceilings!
Well I'm gonna stare at you a while
You know I can't sleep
So won't you bear with me a while
Well the Scorchers gotta stick together
Or else I'll blow out my mind
Looks like she'll be gone a long long time
Looks like she'll be gone a long long time
Didn't you (?) where the tall grass grows
Baby down at midnight where the moonlight flows
Make a little love, make it oh so fine
If you've got the love, I've got the time
If you've got the love, I've got the time
Give me just a minute and I'll make you mine
That summer sun and (?) do shine
If you've got the love, I've got the time
If you've got the love, I've got the time
(?) sent you a well that once was dry
Filled to the brim when you clear your eyes
Know it takes a moment to remember when
The moral to a story was the way to end
If you've got the love I've got the time
Give me just a minute and I'll make you mine
That summer sun and (?) do shine
If you've got the love, I've got the time
If you've got the love, I've got the time
(Well, take me down to the Bayou boys
Throw me in the swamps and bury me under)
That must be my girl yours don't look like that
That must be my girl yours don't look like that
Lord, I know my baby
She sure beats that
I said gone, gone, gone pretty baby
Gone, gone, gone pretty baby
Gone, gone, gone pretty baby
Gone, gone, gone pretty baby
Gone pretty baby
Goin' on down the line
Well I'm rockin' around the square and now everybody rockin' tonight
I'm rockin' around the square and now everybody's rockin' tonight
I'm going to rock you baby
With all my rocking might