Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft

Lyrics

There was a time when I didn't talk Look away or I'd shrug it off Tune it out or turn it off Or say something short and soft Out of school I took a J-O-B Makin' buttons in a factory Thinkin' what has life got in for me? And I didn't wanna know A city full of double deals My boss would yawn and roll back on his heels Like anyone could cop a feel Of lady luck I was made with my brother Bill On Muskie Moons on top of Laurel Hill It's funny, now I'll cheek a poison pill To sober up, to sober up And no two-bit claim of I'm all right Is gonna turn around and make it right I'm fishin' in my pocket for a light And I'm standin' on a corner on a Saturday night I seen the pigeons flap their filthy wings To a freezing sunset in the west Rain shit down from their haunted perch In the bells above St. Someone's church The Sexton drinks and dreams in bed One eye in a line of light Startled by a ghost he screams His dead wife's name into the night Which echoes down a cobbled hall Bounces off a gray stone floor Fired down a line of stairs Where it's silenced by a door Beyond which I am leaning, leaning Watching cars and dreaming As steam rose around my body Like my soul up to the stars I guess the devil's had his way with town Now that Willie is in the ground I guess the devil made me this When he gave me no one I can't resist I got the bill today Wrote back 'I moved away' They called me up to say They know that I'm still here On the fifth day of the fifth month At five o'clock in the dawn I rolled myself in a T-O-P And jumped out on Highway One With a 400 engine hot as a cremation coffin And a tailgate bangin' like an airplane wing Rollin' on the highway I was doin' it my way Whistlin' "Someday" and singing this song I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes Concerning a great speckled bird I didn't know God made honky tonk angels And went back to the wild side of life