Too long in the wasteland

Light snow falling On the muffler shops and the lumber yards The streets are slick as glass Ditches lined with stranded cars The tow trucks are busy Dealing with the evening rush I might have picked a...

Gone off in the pitch-black dark To work the morning tour He's halfway to the highway And he won't be back for hours His tail lights down the gravel road You watch them round the bend Nothing's on the...

McMurtry You heard the bright lights calling Many years ago You never came back crawling How you hung in there I don't know You're at home in the big town You got it all figured out Back home they...

McMurtry Terry's off the track Sent him away and he won't be back for a while Fifteen years old One night he lost control Straight shots Staggered out to the parking lot Someone called him names He...

Hear the trucks on the highway And the ticking of the clock There's a ghost of a moon in the afternoon Bullet holes in the mailbox Bullet holes in the mailbox Key holes in my mind Too long in the...

Well if you're lookin' for a good time You're a little bit late We rolled up the sidewalks At a quarter to eight It's a small town We can't sell you no beer It's a small town, so May I ask what you're...

I'm not from here I just live here Grew up somewhere far away Come here thinking I'd never stay long I'd be going back soon someday It's been a few years Since I got here Seen 'em come and I've seen...

Angeline, Angeline, darker nights I've never seen I don't love these East Texas pines Where I can't find my sleep in the shadows so deep And dark as the doubts in my mind Freight train on the trestle...

McMurtry He'd always whistle Jolie Blonde On his way out the back door on a Friday night So many times he just stayed gone Rarely did he try to treat your mama right Shut off the tractor with the...

The gates of the schoolyard Are padlocked and chained To keep all the children in out of the rain The art teacher's preaching The virtues of pastel shades You pay no attention but it won't hurt your...