James McMurtry - Fast As I Can lyrics

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He was a drinking man with a guitar problem

Didn't have a dollar to his name

He didn't seem to mind it all that often

He mostly took whatever came

And if it came too late or it came to nothing

He'd swear beneath his breath

There's gotta be something to it

There's gotta be something to it

She lost her mind and she never missed it

Folks all said she'd never learn

She'd take the path of least resistance

Right to the point of no return

Apprehended on occasion, got off easy every time

Said there's gotta be something to it, something to it

Don't know why else

She want to put herself through it

When your nights are getting colder

Restless as the wind

I'll be coming over

Fast as I can, fast as I can

Well, he had some lines but he never used 'em

She didn't need much talking to

And he thought he'd died and gone to Houston

By the time the dawn burned off the dew

And they lit right up like Roman candles

Like fire and gasoline

There must've been something to it, something to it

Didn't mess around, they just had to get right to it

When your nights are getting colder

Restless as the wind

I'll be coming over

Fast as I can, fast as I can

For a while they carried on like rabbits

They'd disappear for days and nights

You might say they learned each other's habits

You might say that became their life

And life wasn't long, life wasn't easy

Life wasn't cheap, life wasn't fair

And there might have been something to it

There might have been something to it

When your nights are getting colder

Restless as the wind

I'll be coming over

Fast as I can, fast as I can

When your nights are getting colder

Restless as the wind

I'll be coming over

Fast as I can, fast as I can