Arkansas Blues

Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night

Hopin' I might fly away anew

Cause they'll love you when you're wrong

And then leave you when you're right

Tell me baby, what's a boy to do?

Well I came to town a stranger, not knowin' how to act

Figured I'd hang out and just get found.

Made me some new friends

They climbed way up on my back

Been gone so long they ain't comin' down

You can kiss the sky good morning

You can say your prayers at night

Hide your soul way down in your shoes,

But it's the same old scene

Borrowed love and faded dreams

And you just can't hide from those Arkansas blues.

Well time is playin' tricks on me

Makes me thing I'm movin' fast

I don't think I'm movin' at all

And every stranger's face I see reminds me of the past

Come on big and leave you feelin' small

So I took to drinkin' liquor on the other side of town

Way up in those woods beside the moon

Where every graceful dream I had got lost without a sound

Tell you what, I can't leave this place too soon.

And it don't take no rhyme or reason

It don't make no sense at all

Just one of those things that you don't choose

It's the same old thing

Broken hearts and busted strings

And you just can't run from those Arkansas blues.

Everybody's asking questions about whose side are you on

I don't see how it matters much to me

And all these midnight celebrations

That are ended by the dawn

Leave you feelin' low as you can be

So I'm leaving town this morning, gonna lighten up my load

See if I can't lose what I have found

And it's one drink for the memories

And one kiss for the road

Look out, I believe I'm Texas bound

California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Tennessee

I been all around this land to pay my dues

High, low, and right behind me

Wherever I go they find me

And I just can't run from the Arkansas blues.