Robert Earl Keen - Undone lyrics

rate me

Fire one up and you toss one down

Everybody knows you been downtown

Been downtown late last night

Busted your head in a barroom fight

Fightin' with your brother fightin' with your wife

Seems you been fightin' every day of your life

Can't stand still, still can't run

You put it all together but it came undone

Your soul is junk, your brain is dust

All your memories are eaten up with rust

Your nightmares real, dreams too stark

You love the night but you hate the dark

Your mother your daddy little sister too

Told you a secret they were countin' on you

You were dying to tell but your dad said son

Button your lip but it come undone

So they turned you out when you turned them in

They told you don't come back again

Now the years stack up like old beer cans

Dead end jobs payment plans

Broke down trucks welfare checks

Child support and back-seat sex

You'd kill yourself but you hocked your gun

You built a noose but it come undone

So you're livin' in a shack bu you wanna be rich

And you would if it wasn't for the sonovabitch

The sonovabitch the dirty old whore

The butcher the baker the grocery store

You hate them they hate you

What in the world are you gonna do

It ain't your fault but they need someone

To blame it on when they come undone

Now the storm's comin' in the sky's turned black

It's too late now you can't turn back

Lightnin' strikes on the telephone wire

You're drunk as a skunk your shack's on fire

The wife took the baby and the other two kids

The dogs are a-howlin' and the chickens are dead

It's your last night out and you're gonna have fun

They'll read it in the papers when you come undone