Beneath This Gruff Exterior lyrics

I wake up with my head and hand
I wish i was another man
'Cause i almost fed up with the blues

I think about the kitchen sink
Then i just shudder to think
'Cause I'm almost fed up with the Blues

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If it don't let up, gonna get up
And get my life set up
'Cause I'm almost fed up with the Blues
Have some coffee, 'fore i call it quits
Might even put jam on my biscuit

Ward bond
Was his sidekick rowdy yates?
Drove that wagon train out West
Right along this interstate

Cross the high plains of kansas
To the colorado line
Spent a lot of sleepless nights 'Round the campfire
They had mountains on their minds

Those higt plains people
They're different somehow
You spent your life leaning into a hard wind
I guess you're less likely to take a bow

Saw a red tailed hawk eatin' road kill
Said "Man, what happened to your dignity?"
He said "Subdivisions have taken my home
And there's no more pray to eat."
I said, "Where we gonna live?"
He said "Anywhere you want to, i guess
All you creature walkin' upright 'Round here
Well you've really made a mess."

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I wish we both could fly back home
To the green fields of our youth

How long you been workin' here?
Well what do you know about that?
Its been thirty years or so
Since i bothered lookin' back
It was right in front of me
But now i'm runnin' behind
To get my butt caught up well i need a cup
Of the nastiest shit you can find

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How Bad's the coffee
How good's the pie
If you call me " honey"
Honey, i'm gonna cry
A whole lot of sugar

I spent all day staring al a leaf
I know my time here is brief
I'd like to get some details down
Before i move on to another town

I met a man, he lost both arms
Got 'em caught up in her charms
She look the kids and the color tV
He said, "I wish she'd taken the rest of me"

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This Travelin' life, well it ain't no good
I'd quit it honey, oh if i could

Minutes turn to days
Years just melt away
In the park at dawn
Just a flower on

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I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue

We discovered love
In the basements of
Some of my best friends
I've never seen again

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I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you

She marked our trail
Up the back bone ridge
How many times can one dog pee
She keeps me high as an eagle
When i'm on the skids
I guess you gotta come down eventually

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Buddy i coulda gone that extra mile
For an extra bark or an extra smile
'Cause i never felt so free
It was just my dog and me

Then she gives me that look
Like she'd lay down her life

Time is runnin' out
Friends are too
The word is getting' out
It's all bad news

Scoundrels know my whereabouts
They recognize these pointy shoes
That's the last time
I turn my back on you

A friendly little game of cards
Aces wild
Your little life was just so hard
You had to act like a child
I recognize the queen of hearts
When she's sittin' in plain view
That's the last time

What there was left of us
Was all covered in dust and thick skin
A half eaten apple
The whole Sistine chapel
Painted on the head of a pin

A life long love's work
Gone up in a smirk
And you didn't even see her waltz in

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Now this love is a ghost, for having played host
To the most unoriginal sin

At the wedding we smiled
While some devil played wild violin

How fast you gonna run?
Away from this one
Anywhere but here
You wanna disappear
To the next daylight
Where everythings right
It's always somewhere else
You're gonna fix yourself
Once shame and guilt
Have made their mark

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You can't run away from the nagging dark
Toy carry it everywhere in your heart
It finishes everything that you start

Well I do my best thinking sitting on my ass
Sittin' here waiting for things to pass
You got places to go and people to see
Well honey that's you, it ain't me

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Shit flying in my head
From every direction
I'm thinking about
An uncommon connection
An uncommon connection
An uncommon connection
An uncommon connection

Lot of people in a hurry, and they're goin' nowhere

A broken promise i kept too long
A greasy shade and a curtain drawn
A broken glass and a heart gone wrong
That's my window on the world

A cup of coffee in a shaky hand
Wakin' up in a foreign land
Tryin' to act like i got somethin' planned
That's my window on the world

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That's my window on the world
Could you stand a little closer, girl
Don't let mama cut those curfs