The Crossing - Sleepy Holler

Leaving the whole week behind Stop the trouble, open your mind Is this the live you want to live Clear up your mind, zebras crossing the street Loosing control, everything is in your hand Running around, down the street Buying some frozen food, put it in a fridge Turn up the music louder Leaving the whole week behind Stop the trouble, open your mind Is this the live you want to live Clear up your mind, zebras crossing the street Loosing control, everything is in your hand Running around, down the street Buying some frozen food, put it in a fridge Turn up the music louder Thank god it's friday

I crossed the Rubicon on the 14th day Of the most dangerous month of the year At the worst time, at the worst place That's all I seem to hear I got up early So I can greet the goddess of the dawn I've painted my wagon, abandoned all hope And I crossed the Rubicon Well, the Rubicon is a red river Goin' gently as she flows Redder than your ruby lips And the blood that flows from the rose Three miles north of purgatory One step from the great beyond I prayed to the cross, I kissed the girls And I crossed the Rubicon What are these dark days I see? In this world so badly bent I cannot redeem the time The time so idly spent How much longer can it last? How long can it go on? I embrace my love, put down my hair And I crossed the Rubicon I can feel the bones beneath my skin And they're tremblin' with rage I'll make your wife a widow You'll never see old age Show me one good man in sight That the sun shines down upon I pawned my watch, I paid my debts And I crossed the Rubicon Put my hide up on a hill Where some happiness I'll find If I survive, then let me love Let the hour be mine Take the high road, take the low Take any one you're on I poured the cup, I passed it along And I crossed the Rubicon Well, you defiled the most lovely flowers In all her womanhood Others can be tolerant Others can be good I'll cut you up with a crooked knife Lord, and I'll miss you when you're gone I stood between Heaven and Earth And I crossed the Rubicon You won't find any happiness here No happiness or joy Go back to the gutter, try your luck Find you some nice pretty boy Tell me how many men I need And who can I count upon I strapped my belt, I buttoned my coat And I crossed the Rubicon I feel the holy spirit inside See the light that freedom gives I believe it's in the reach of Every man who lives Keep as far away as possible It's darkest 'fore the dawn (Oh Lord) I turned the key, I broke it off And I crossed the Rubicon Mona, baby, are you still in my mind? I truly believe that you are Couldn't be anybody else but you Who's come with me this far The killing frost is on the ground And the autumn leaves are gone I lit the torch, I looked to the east And I crossed the Rubicon

I was kinda quiet as a kid growing up First twenty years man, I didn't say much Taking all the shit that the poor folks are given Dodging daddy's fist and the Jackson County Prison Can't cut a bleach stain who am I kidding I came from the mud where the low lives waller Sailor-swearing, single-parent, double-wide squalor Wild child, coyote-kid without a collar Trying to get by on a high and a dollar It's the salt in the sting It's the fire in my veins Hear it when I sing It's the pain that put the holler in the holler from the holler Holler from the holler Board as a 2×4, fightin' just for fun In the middle of nowhere with nowhere to run Hellbent, broken-soul seeking salvation Where the preachers all preach from The Book of Revelations A hundred dollar Chevy was my ticket out And The Valley of The Shadow always with me no doubt I came from the mud where the low lives waller Sailor-swearing, single-parent, double-wide squalor Wild child, coyote-kid without a collar Trying to get by on a high and a dollar It's the salt in the sting Fire in my veins Hear it when I sing It's the pain that put the holler in the holler from the holler Holler from the holler Yeah Yeah I was kinda quiet as a kid growing up I was kinda quiet as a kid growing up I was kinda quiet as a kid growing up I came from the mud where the low lives waller Sailor-swearing, single-parent, double-wide squalor Wild child, coyote-kid without a collar Trying to get by on a high and a dollar It's the salt in the sting It's the fire in my veins Hear it when I sing It's the pain that Pain put the holler Pain put the holler In the holler from the holler Holler from the holler

Whoa, whoa The only poison I've had is ivy The only man I fear is God No snakes can make me run now 'Cause I've been bit by 'em all No buck can stare me down No neighbor can shut me up I'm off the grid and I'm off my rocker I'm off in the holler son We them holler boys Holler if you're needin' somethin' done Holler if you need a chip on a shoulder And a hand with a loaded gun We'll be out that screen door, no shirt on Leavin' two black marks down a one lane road Yeah we, yeah we, yeah we them holler boys The only fight I've ever been in Was takin' up for somebody else The only time I got my jaw jacked is never but damn sure not quite yet The times I miss the most are the times nobody knows When it was me, my cousin, and a couple of my buddies Racin' down ol' Sams Creek Road We them holler boys Holler if you're needin' somethin' done Holler if you need a chip on a shoulder And a hand with a loaded gun We'll be out that screen door, no shirt on Leavin' two blackmarks down a one lane road Yeah we, yeah we, yeah we them holler boys Holler boy native to the holler soil Washed in the spring of a farmer's joy We them holler boys Holler if you're needin' somethin' done Holler if you need a chip on a shoulder Or a hand with a loaded gun We them holler boys Holler if you're needin' somethin' done Holler if you need a chip on a shoulder And a hand with a loaded gun We'll be out that screen door, no shirt on Leavin' two blackmarks down a one lane road Yeah we, yeah we, yeah we them holler boys