Various Artists - Anything But Tame - Rodney Crowell lyrics

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When our feet were tough as horn

And our eyes were sharp as flint

And our hearts beat like two war drums

And you tracked me by my scent

Cross a scape of shiny asphalt

That blacked our soles with tar

And we ran like brave commanches

On a moonlit reservoir

And you said

I don't wanna be tamed down

I just wanna saddle up

Ride my broomstick pony

Along some salt grass open plain

I can see you standing guard

On the fence in your backyard

With your daisy pump air rifle

And your Annie Oakley aim

Ah you were anything but tame

When you'd summon me with bird calls

Or you scratching at my screen

Your mouth gone sweet with juicy fruit

Tawny legs and cut off jeans

In my stretchy Ford Ranchero

Ah we rattled like train cars

And we slung our share of gravel

'Neath a tarpoline of stars

And you said

I don't wanna be tamed down

I don't wanna give an inch

The fenced off picture perfect in your billfold window frame

'Cause you were born to romp

In this God forsaken swamp

Dodging cotton mouths and quicksand

On your tiptoes in the rain

Ah you were anything but tame

I heard Shreveport didn't last

So you lit out for LA

But when lightning claws the night up

I can see you plain as day

And when I want to feel you near me

I go quit this tired old gloom

And pull on down a bayou

To where the morning glories bloom

And you said

I don't wanna be tamed down

I don't wanna tread regret

And flat out make excuses

For the way I came up lame

I could have been enough

To live down by the gulf

Where the cutting edge of nowhere

Where the sun goes down in flames

We were anything but tame

Anything but tame