Lyrics

[Intro] So when I was seventeen My dad moved to this little gamblin' town in southern Mississippi Called Biloxi, Mississippi Which, uh Which is fine, he just forgot to tell his family where he was goin' And a few years later I was figuring out songwriting Writing a bunch of songs and, uh Trying to get to that place where you Where you really hit your stride, I guess Or at least where you feel like you know what's goin' on And I was, at the time I was listening to a bunch of Billy Joe Shaver's music He had a band called Shaver with his son Eddie And I was way into it and sorta figurin' out All the st— I knew I'd grown up, you know I'd grown up listening to his stuff through, uh Waylon Jennings and— and other people cuttin' his stuff But I kinda discovered him as a songwriter in my early twenties And, I'd like to say that I stole from him But what I stole from him wasn't words, it was— It was the, uh, it was the approach to writing So close to your heart and so personal that The— the song actually is so personal that it becomes universal And everybody can understand what you're talkin' about 'Cause really, when it comes down to it, man We're all goin' through the same shit So this is a song about my dad Actually, for my dad, askin' a few questions, it's called "Biloxi" [Verse 1] Where in hell did you go? You left us all alone I wasn't even eighteen and you never turned around Like some kid out on the run, you headed for the fun Down in Biloxi and the Gulf of Mexico [Chorus] Where I guess, the girls, they're pretty and nobody says it's late And you can stay out all night long and never have hell to pay Down in Biloxi, even when you're forty-one Just forget your problems down in Biloxi [Verse 2] And you only came around to take a rest and come down From Biloxi, but you were not the same Pretending that you cared, pretending you were there And not in Biloxi and the Gulf of Mexico [Chorus] Where I guess, the girls, they're pretty and nobody says it's late And you can stay out all night long and never have hell to pay Down in Biloxi, even when you're forty-one You just forget your problems down in Biloxi [Verse 3] Well, did you really think you'd find more than you left behind Back home in Houston? We all felt the loss Hey, I don't mean to bring you down, but I still wonder what you found There in Biloxi, was it worth the cost? [Chorus] Well, I hope the girls were pretty and nobody said it was late And I hope you stayed out all night long and that you never had hell to pay Down in Biloxi, when you were forty-one Just forget your problems down in Biloxi