I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly, fly, fly Tie my dreams up in a sack and Lay my head down on the track and die die die My life's been so sweet I just can't stand it I must admit I've made out like a bandit Last night's conversation with a real good friend of mine, drinkin wine Wine wine Said fifty years of livin and your worst mistakes forgiven just takes time time time One man's lust for life brings world reknown And the next guy can't get two feet off the ground... he's earthbound Earthbound... hear the wind through the tops of the trees Earthbound... summer sun nearly ninety degrees Earthbound... big ol' moon sinking down... think I might stick Around EARTHBOUND I knew love once way back when she had almond eyes and olive skin And long black hair She was Irish Spanish mixbreed, I was southeast Texas hayseed We were almost there Earth Daddy did not like my kind around True love took the next train out of town... earthbound Earthbound... where there's fathers and daughters in pain Earthbound... mama's boy walking home in the rain Earthbound... like a ship run aground, think I might stick around EARTHBOUND With each new day that passes I'm in need of thicker glasses but it's All O K Someday I'll be leaving but I just can't help believing that it's not Today Every golden moment I have found I've done my best to run right in the ground... earthbound Earthbound... see the sky big and beautiful blue Earthbound... fallen angels come callin' for you Earthbound... keepin' close to the ground think I might stick around Earthbound... Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr Earthbound... Walter Cronkite, Seamus Heaney, Ringo Starr Dalai Lama, Charlie Brown make me wanna stick around EARTHBOUND

Sometimes there's heartaches and teardrops will fall Good years and bad years, we live through it all There's no easy answer to the trouble I see But I'm happy just knowin', you're saving the last waltz for me Sometimes it's diamonds and sometimes it's dirt Sometimes it's magic and sometimes it's work There's no easy answer to the trouble I see But I'm happy just knowin', your saving the last waltz for me Someday we're gonna sail away Somehow we're gonna fly Someway we'll see the light of day Shine on high After the harvest when winter is near The last fiddle playin' is all I can hear There's no easy answer to the trouble I see But I'm happy just knowin', you're saving the last waltz for me There's no easy answer to the trouble I see But I'm happy just knowin', you're saving the last waltz for me Someday, someway, ooh, ooh

So I grew up hungry and I grew up hard Took the streets and alleys for my own backyard I've got a break and enter on my list of crimes Been before the judge one too many times East Houston blues, scale of one to ten Bout a nine and a half is where it's always been It's in the drinking water and in the bar ditch mud East Houston blues, gets in a poor boy's blood I learned to drink and drive when I was 12 years old My uncle Fireball Stoddard rest his rugged soul He ran a 54' Ford up and down the drag Sippin' early times straight from a paper bag East Houston blues, picture Dowling Street And Navigation Blvd where the crossroads meet Three sheets in the wind brick shy of a load East Houston blues, down a nowhere road 40 dollar boots, big bangora hat Stolen money from an inside job, maybe think about that I'm a third ward child, my mother's only son Which means exactly nothing without a loaded gun I don't believe in love, this I guarantee If there's a god above, he's got it in for me East Houston blues, what you want me to say I need to find me a woman to keep the wolves at bay Keep my head on straight, make me toe the line East Houston blues, ain't no friend of mine Just so you understand that of which I speak I'm a worried man on a losing streak.

Come on baby let me take you by the hand Come on sugar let me take you by the hand You're for me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man Well come on baby I love your honey lovin' ways Hey there sweet thing I love your honey lovin' honey lovin' ways Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man [ Harmonica ] Come on woman I'm gonna treat you right I'll give you candy kisses every single night (Candy man your candy man your candy man your candy man) Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you

I don't like humus, I hate long lines Nosy neighbors and the nation blind Chirpy news anchors alter my mood I'm offended by buss words like awesome men do I look like a train wreck, I feel like a blob Till you get to know me, you may think I'm a snob But I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been I don't eat sushi, I don't smoke grass I don't wear pajamas, I don't drive fast I hate that all gossip and tassel shoes Slick politicians, they give me the blues I don't ride in Limos, I don't play golf I don't own a riffle that will blow your head off But I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been I'm riding that way from cradle to grave I'm learning to feel my hands on the wheel I love my friends, I love my wife Four little babies are the light of my life I love Sissy Spacek, I love God Clark All the biscuits and gravy I can eat with a fork I don't wanna be famous, who gives a damn? I just wanna be happy where ever I am And I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been I'm closer to heaven than I've ever been Closer to heaven Closer to heaven

It's the time and the place Every line on your face It's the truth and the lie It's to live and to die Oh what a beautiful world It's a girl and a boy And the first taste of joy It's an old photograph of two hearts torn in half Oh what a beautiful world We build out hopes up high, perchance to someday fly Across a clear blue sky to someplace new It's a walk in the park or a shot in the dark It's a thief in the night, or the first ray of light Oh what a beautiful world We live our legends down, wake up in lost and found Become that highway sound and roll on through It's the rise and the fall of the clocks on the wall It's the first and the last of your days flying past Oh what a beautiful world