PRONE TO WANDER (2020)

  • It was a Monday, it was cold as fuck
    And I was feelin’ rough
    It was just another one of them days
    And then I saw you, I felt I knew you
    And you knew me too

    We started walking and days went by
    It seemed, and a flower bloomed in me
    I felt big and bright and free
    I asked five questions
    And then you answered each
    You taught me to breathe

    And then I asked myself if I would do it again
    Even though I knew that it would end
    And then I asked you too, and you just smiled at me
    You said, baby, you’re for me

    It came time to say goodbye to you
    We both left and knew how rare and true
    Please don’t ask me, for whom that bell does ring
    Sugar, it rang all day for you and me

    Oh dear Robert, you call me rabbit
    And I have come to take you away from here
    And when I see you, I’ll know I’m dreaming too
    And what a dream come true

  • Mama’s torn away from her babies at the border
    And daddy can’t find a job
    And all that while some folks sit back and say
    Thank god it ain’t my prob

    There’s a lot of stuff on today’s front page
    And it reads more bad than it’s good
    And I can’t help but notice a small boy of 5
    Who’s suffered so much more than he should

    Ooooo, it ain’t your fault
    Ooooo, hey baby, it ain’t your fault

    Baby packs up and heads out the door
    To the 6am bus stop
    Sits in her chair, recess by 10:30
    And takes cover while her classmates get shot

    There’s a lot of stuff on today’s front page
    And it reads more bad than it’s good
    And I can’t help but notice a small boy of 5
    Who’s suffered so much more than he should

    Ooooo, it ain’t your fault
    Ooooo, hey baby, it ain’t your fault

    Mommy makes a medicine, feeds it to your dolly
    So you will take it too
    But little do you know that it’ll make you sicker
    ’Cause your mommy’s come unglued

    There’s a lot of stuff on todays front page
    And it reads more bad than it’s good
    And I can’t help but notice a small boy of 5
    Who’s suffered so much more than he should

    Ooooo, it ain’t your fault
    Ooooo, hey baby, it ain’t your fault
    Ooooo, it ain’t your fault
    Ooooo, hey baby, it ain’t your fault

  • Hell or high water push you out to the margins
    People are babbling, your stuff sinks to the bottom
    And just like a weed that grows vast from a crack
    They will step on your face and they’ll never look back

    How long can we take it?
    How long can we put up with this?

    People around me are sick and they’re dying
    No chance of escaping a bill or a debt
    We’re at the mercy of a controversy
    Two selfish parties that think they know best

    How long can we take it?
    How long can we put up with this?

    As I am walking this dark lonely highway
    I get this feeling that I’m all alone
    But if we can reach out and love on each other
    Then we can all heal and have someone there

    How long can we take it?
    How long can we put up with this?

  • Big muddy won’t stop calling me, a sleepy little town
    Sits in a bend on a river and just a few to count
    Take me for a long drive, every back road looks the same
    Take me across the levee on down to the river bank

    Take me to the river bank where ships pass by at night
    Moonlight there to guide me, I’ll swim into the light
    Down a concrete landing my clothes lay on a tree
    Washed up by the river while the river washes me

    Glory, glory, hallelujah
    None of the people did say
    While I skinny dip in the Mississip
    And wash all my sins away

    The river has a current and it’s swift and it don’t lie
    It’ll carry you away, you don’t even have to try
    I’ll roll us up a fat one and our butt lights up the sky
    Hand in hand, all together, it’s gonna be alright

    Glory, glory, hallelujah
    None of the people did say
    While I skinny dip in the Mississip
    And wash all my sins away

    Glory, glory, hallelujah
    None of the people did say
    While I skinny dip in the Mississip
    And wash all my sins away

  • I been walking around
    This small-ass town
    It’s so run down
    I just cry and sit down

    Sweet train, c’mon
    I been waiting so long
    Please fill my song
    It is gone, it is gone

    There ain’t a lot to do
    And sure not much to say
    A lot folks are hurting
    Most just look the other way

    There ain’t a lot to do
    And sure not much to say
    A lot of folks are hurting
    Most just look the other way

    I rolled around
    His bed and found
    Myself quieting down
    I just took it lying down

    Sweet train, c’mon
    I been waiting so long
    Please fill my song
    It is gone, it is gone

  • Frost saw it all along, but it’s just now plain to me
    Two paths, a yellow wood, and here I stand in greed
    I’ll tie myself in knots, hang myself from a tree
    I should choose between two birds who’ve been good at pampering me

    Perhaps I’ll leave both them birds, it seems possible to me
    To venture out, let it go, to leave this for memory
    I did once pen my path, all innocence left out back
    Traveled down a road of firsts and there sure ain’t none left to pack

    Cause I’m only twenty-two, it seems possible to do
    If I was twenty-three, it might just be too late for me
    But I’m only twenty-two, it seems possible to do
    To venture out and let it go, to leave this for memory

    Right now I want to sail the world and change my course with the wind
    The current and the down wind, Lord, I sure will factor in
    But I am sinking in quicksand, my right foot settled in mush
    Guess while I am stuck here I will call out my own bluffs

    Cause I’m only twenty-two, it seems possible to do
    If I was twenty-three, it might just be too late for me
    But I’m only twenty-two, it seems possible to do
    To venture out and let it go, to leave this for memory

  • It was May Day when I lost my faith
    I was on my way to Birmingham
    It was clear outside and I wasn’t surprised
    I just cried and cried the whole time

    Time gone by, it ain’t been too long at all
    I’m taken back to that old religious song
    Prone to wander, I always have been
    That is how I built my within

    Well the devil is all around and he likes to see us down
    Flat as a board, face first on the ground
    But what he don’t know is if you take a look real close
    The light will guide us home

    Time gone by, it ain’t been too long at all
    I’m taken back to that old religious song
    Prone to wander, I always have been
    That is how I built my within

    Prone to wander, I always have been
    That is how I built my within

  • You left my house on a Sunday afternoon
    It was sunny outside and all in bloom
    And I took for granted what I held so dear
    I wasn’t ready, my best friend disappeared

    It was three days in torment, three days in hell
    I remember so loudly every single detail
    Twelve years ago seems like yesterday
    When my passionate red went to sleep in a lake

    And my heart aches every single day
    At a yellow rose or a red headed babe
    And there lies a hole down in my soul
    That you only fill, I miss you still

    If you saw the world now, what would you think?
    If you were still here, what kind of choice would you make?
    Is there a heaven? Is there a hell?
    I have so much to ask, I need you to tell me

    My heart aches every single day
    At a yellow rose or a red headed babe
    And there lies a hole down in my soul
    That you only fill, I miss you still

    You left my house on a Sunday afternoon
    It was sunny outside and all in bloom
    And I took for granted what I held so dear
    I wasn’t ready, my best friend disappeared

  • I can walk real fast, you see
    From the shadows that follow me
    I know you abandoned me
    I’m an orphan in this land

    I can learn and try to see
    What is best to do in life, you see
    I can’t count on no one but me
    I’m an orphan in this land

    Without a mom and a dad, you see
    I was made to be set free
    I can see it wasn’t meant to be
    I’m an orphan in this land

    I been blessed by the lord, you see
    Always lonely and sometimes weak
    I can’t see him, but he’s carried me
    I’m an orphan in this land

    I am wild like a big fig tree
    An outlier of the olive trees
    Winter comes and I bear no leaf
    I’m an orphan in this land

    I can see, despite all I know
    I can love myself, you followed your soul
    I can see why you abandoned me
    I’m an orphan in this land

  • My mom and my dad invite me to stay
    Go to church every Sunday, hear the good words they say
    But I went to the woods and I did find my way
    I found the Lord in the trees and a lake

    I am a girl that’s full of sin
    I’ve done some harm, less outward than in
    I drink and I smoke, I play music with friends
    I have no regard, my mercy runs thin

    I found a spot up in north Mississip
    It suits me just fine, I really like it
    There ain’t many folks and the ones that are there
    Remind me of what matters and that life just ain’t fair

    I am a girl that’s full of sin
    I’ve done some harm, less outward than in
    I drink and I smoke, I play music with friends
    I have no regard, my mercy runs thin

    I run into people I ain’t seen in awhile
    They’re asking these questions I don’t care about
    What you been doin? Are you married now?
    You’re soon to be thirty, your clock’s gon run out

    I am a girl that’s full of sin
    I’ve done some harm, less outward than in
    I drink and I smoke, I play music with friends
    I have no regard, my mercy runs thin

    I open my mouth and they hear what comes out
    A thick country accent, is she kidding, wow
    They mean no harm but it’s time that I take
    Control of my voice, I don’t care what they say

    I am a girl that’s full of sin
    I’ve done some harm, less outward than in
    I drink and I smoke, I play music with friends
    I have no regard, my mercy runs thin