Just Enough

He said I was fifteen when I first tasted lightening

From the bench my daddy made himself.

A starter joke for me and the neighbor’s daughter

I wanted it more than I feared daddy’s belt

And when the buzzin took the place of the burning

That joint kiss it made me burn more than I ever burned before

And it was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough

To want some more.

And like a drop of water to a thirsty man

Like a postcard picture of the promised land

A piece of candy candy from an old dime store

And it was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough

To want some more.

And I was up to anything when I was younger,

I raised more hell than the devil himself.

But the good God must have knew I needed an angel

‘cause I was on my way to an early grave in jail.

She was a breath in spring with a long grin cotton dress

And she looked my way when I didn’t know what I was looking for

And it was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough to want me some more.

Like a sip of whiskey to a drinking man

Like a sprinkle of rain on the desert sand

A little ray of daylight on a jail house full

And it was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough to want me some more.

Now I’m old and crippled, and some say, wiser

I can’t believe how fast the years they fly

And the one thing that I learned in all my years of living

Is that you, you never lived enough when you die.

And like a drop of water to a thirsty man

Like a postcard picture of the promised land

A piece of candy candy from an old dime store

And it was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough

It was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough

It was just enough, just enough, yeah, just enough

To want me some more.