Straight Time

Album: The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995)
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  • Got out of prison back in '86 and I found me a wife
    Walked the clean and narrow
    Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive
    Got a job at the rendering factory,it ain't gonna make me rich
    In the darkness before dinner comes
    Sometimes I can feel the it
    I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
    I'm sick of doin straight time

    My uncles at the evenin' table makes his living runnin' hot cars
    Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says
    "Charlie, you best remember who your friend are."
    I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
    I ain't makin' straight time

    Eight years in, it feels like you're gonna die
    But you get used to anything
    Sooner or later it becomes your life

    Kitchen floor in the evening, tossin' my little babies high
    Mary's smilin', but she watches me out of the corner of her eye
    Seems you can't get any more than half free
    I step out onto the front porch, and suck the cold air deep inside of me
    Got a cold mind to go tripping cross that thin line
    I'm sick of doin' straight time

    In the basement, huntin' gun and a hacksaw
    Sip a beer, and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor

    Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands
    Lay my head down on the pillow
    And, go driftin' off into foreign lands Writer/s: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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