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lizblackdog ([personal profile] lizblackdog) wrote2009-01-02 08:29 pm

Sometimes I feel like shit

everyone on my f-list is posting lyrics lately. i want to post to prove i'm not dead but I feel sick with nerves, inadequacy and self-loathing at the thought of actually writing anything.



My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck
You're dumber than dogshit, is what my Daddy said
I was just thirteen when they showed me the door
I keep their picture but don't look at it no more

My first wife told me, you need to get a life
My third wife told me to get another wife
I brought a bottle and the van's parked by that tree
So come on out with me, if you want to be number four

Sometimes I feel like shit
Sometimes that ain't half of it
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep

Ain't held down a job since 1984
I get by holding up convenience stores
I get by on liquor, guns and luck
But I'm scared to death which one might run out first

Sometimes I feel like shit
Sometimes that ain't half of it
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep

I seen my past in everything that I despise
I've seen my future and I'm scared to close my eyes
Is that my ghost that I see in my fears
Or just my reflection in my Mama's tears

Sometimes I feel like shit
Sometimes that ain't half of it
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep



The Drive-By Truckers are my best discovery of 2008, and I need to lick [livejournal.com profile] slave2tehtink's face for introducing us.

Here they are playing it.

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