Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Ray Wylie Hubbard] Screamin' in a mic, playing a Strat through a Vox AC-30 Gives a troublesome back and a ringin' in your ears My last band covered the Clash, the Kinks and the Replacements Seems my soul is as mis-spent as my years Now I got a Princeton reverb, it's in an old Anvil case It's in the back of a Ford Econoline It's a six hour drive to Austin and the Continental Club I got to change the strings on my ES-335 [Chorus: Ray Wylie Hubbard and Eric Church] Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can Playin' a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band And loving a woman who can out-cuss any man Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can [Verse 2: Ray Wylie Hubbard] I met her in L.A., we was openin' for Son Volt She had eyes mascara'd like Eva Green's She sparkled with wildness like the blue yonder She'd done a time in darkness and was two years clean She wears an old leather jacket, it was made by Irish saints And boots engraved with skulls and thorns She got her ink in Tulsa, still she don't like red-dirt bands Bein' in love with her is like living in a thunderstorm [Chorus: Hubbard and Church and Lucinda Williams] Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can Playin' a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band And loving a woman who can out-cuss any man Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can [Instrumental] [Bridge: Ray Wylie Hubbard and Lucinda Williams] Now the faithless live in grays and faded purples And the gamblers never bet on 12's or 2's The drunken poets disappear into big shadows And the rock 'n' roll believers sing the easy rider blues [Chorus: Hubbard and Church and Williams] Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can Playin' a sunburst Gibson in an alt-country band And loving a woman who can out-cuss any man Tell the devil that I'm gettin' there as fast as I can