Straight to Hell

Album: Mystery Road (1989)
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  • Grew up just west of the tracks
    Holding me to hold me back
    Around your door
    She's calling out my name

    She said "son won't you go outside
    I've got a man coming over tonight
    The seventh one in seven days"

    So I go down
    To the parking lot
    And hang around
    All my friends
    And roam the street 'till dawn
    Breaks again

    I come in at five am
    And she is waitin' for me
    She said, "Where have you been?"
    I said,
    "I was out!"
    She said, "you're no good 'cause
    You're runnin' without love"

    I'm going straight to hell
    Just like my mama said
    I'm going straight to hell

    The black widow and the
    Ladies man
    Met down at the laundromat
    And tried to make me
    Understand

    The neighbors were
    All in a stir
    About what they might have heard
    And runnin' down they shouted out
    It seemed

    Next door a girl she lives
    About the same age as me
    And asked me to come upstairs
    For a see

    Just then her mother burst in
    Said, "You're the son of that bitch in the wind
    Get outta my house
    Hit the road"
    I kept fallin' like a Rolling Stones song
    I'm going straight to hell
    Just like my mama said
    I'm going straight to hell

    The stars came out
    And warned me so
    As I walked on down
    The road
    Fifty bucks and a suitcase
    Steered me clear

    She took my hand
    As we walked into the sun
    A new days promise had
    Begun
    We'll make it alone
    Whether you like it or not
    I turned and shouted

    Help me mother
    I'm going straight to hell
    Just like my mama said
    I'm going straight to hell

    Mother
    Love her
    Won't you let me go Writer/s: KEVIN GERARD KINNEY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Tom R from Chandler AzTodd Snider really does this song justice, my favorite version
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