A Couple Acres Greener

Lyrics

I've never been so hungry Seems like twenty-two years, I've been looking for a fight Never stayed in school for long, couldn't keep my patience on Never had the motivation quite to get my timimg right I want my story to begin There's a time to save up and a time to spend I'm too young for the past tense All this worrying about what might have been Should have been a preacher man Let the good book show me where to stand In this earthly half-way home Should have been a farmin' man Teach my boy to plow the land Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go I've never been so thirsty to get my soul right But like a summer bug, I've been burned by the blinding light Never stayed in church for long, poplar pews and white folk songs Sunday morning never was as real as Friday night I want to celebrate my sins There's a time to save up and a time to spend I'm too young for the past tense All this worrying about what might have been Should have been a preacher man Let the good book show me where to stand In this earthly half-way home Should have been a farmin' man Teach my boy to plow the land Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go Some day they'll write my name upon a stone And I won't be there to see it Up on Calv'ry calling me I know they'll say... Should have been a preacher man Let the good book show me where to stand In this earthly half-way home Should have been a farmin' man Teach my boy to plow the land Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener Should have been a preacher man Let the good book show me where to stand In this earthly half-way home Should have been a farmin' man Teach my boy to plow the land Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go