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1. Intro
2. One Eye Open
When you’re running from the law and the bad guys, too,
You sleep with one eye open, your friends are few,
Every place you go, you’re just passing through,
Sleep with one eye open, ain’t no rest for you.
Sleep with one eye open ,ear to the ground,
Trying to sense the danger before I lay me down,
Climb any mountain, swim any sea,
Before I let the lawman put his chains on me.
Everyone’s a stranger, your life’s in the past,
You ain’t got much future, you might not last,
Still, you sleep with one eye open, boots to the ground,
Knowing that the hellhounds are out to run you down.
3. Hostile Land
When you're way down south, south of Juarez,
The law of the land is what the big man says.
Jeffe want you dead, odds are you don't live,
He's already taken everything that you have.
The boss double crossed you, moneys always why,
Now you think he thinks its your time to die.
You best move quick, if he's given the order,
Got to grab your guns and make a run for the border
You're way down south in a hostile land,
Nothing so far has gone according to plan.
You want to get home anyway that you can,
The man at the bar is a dangerous man.
You think about a woman, you need to atone,
Before you die in the dirt scared and alone.
You praying for luck, you got a long way to go,
To make your escape from old Mexico.
It won't be easy all the killers will know,
The jeffe wants the head of a desperate gringo.
The army, the outlaws, policia too,
All work for the big man, they're all in cahoots.
Won't be no quarter they catch up to you,
They laugh at mercy, they're godless and cruel.
You see them coming just start to shoot.
Way down south ........
You came down here for a pot of gold,
Now, everything you owned even your souls been sold.
The gentleman there won't let you fold,
The looks he shoots at you makes the blood run cold.
The hombre stole your money, he'll rob your life,
Could be the gun, might be the knife.
Might blow you away, could throw you
from the mountain.
So many ways to kill you, who wants to count them?
4. No Nature Boy
I wish the ocean was gasoline.
I’d cruise around the world in a jet machine.
Wouldn’t care if the air was too clean.
To stay alive, I would survive—a smog-breathing fiend.
CHORUS
I ain’t no Nature Boy.
Oooh oooh.
I’m a real wild child.
I love the concrete underneath my feet.
I thrive on nitrates in the poison meat.
A sunflower seed’s somethin’ I never eat.
A chilidog is really more my kinda treat.
I tried jogging—I got tired every time.
Pedalin’ that bike got to be a real grind.
Rollerblading fools drive me out of my mind.
I take a ride with you when I wanta feel fine.
I wish the snowfall was pure cocaine.
The sky’d drop dollars instead of rain.
It wouldn’t cost so doggone much to fry my brain.
And like the rest of this world, I’d just go insane.
5. Too Much to Do
I got too much to do to go down with the ship
too much at stake I got too many debts
if I aint learned nothing else after all of these years
when you're taking your chances
don’t go shedding no tears
a gambling life will take a toll
too many hands refusing to fold
but deal me the cards let the dice roll
a gambling life the only life i know
coulda gotten out sooner with a piece of my soul
but playing it safe was never my goal
deal me the cards let the dice roll
a gambling life the only life i know
6. All Greek to Me
my name is henry lee she'd slip up
and call me dirty ed
she maxed out my credit cards
she blew through my bread
she'd come home drunk at three am
wearing another man's pajamas
firing a pistol in the air she scared
the daylights outta momma
my buddies tried to tell me
I refused to see
the handwriting on the wall was all greek to me
all greek to me
the last time i seen her i'd just gone her bail
she'd got in a brawl down to bubba's poolhall
and she got throwed in the county jail
she finagled my last fifty and drove off in my car
I found it on blocks a couple weeks later
behind a honky tonk bar
then she called me collect
she sounded upset
said she was a missing me
if she'd caused me pain it wouldn't happen again
she could almost guarantee
down on her luck
stuck without a buck up in upstate Tennessee
She changed a lot she hoped i hadn't forgot
how much she meant to me
well I wired her a grand
she said it was her plan to come back by my side
why she was even considering to consenting
to being my brand new bride
that was two weeks ago she didn't show
i'm as blind as a fool can be
the handwriting on the wall was all greek to me
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7.Miami Intro
8. Moving to Miami
I’m moving to Miami, gonna paint my house bright blue ,
Next door to the Haitians start practicing voodoo,
Sew me a little cloth doll, she’ll look a lot like you
Maybe stick pins in her, see if you can feel pain, too
Like I do Baby Like I do
Moving I’m moving to Miami….
Moving to Miami so many things to do, like
Cruising sexy South beach and Collins Avenue
I might stay a night at the Fontainebleau.
Moving to Miami I ‘m forgetting about you,
Moving to Miami gonna paint my house bright blue
I love arroz and pollo
I scarf down plantains, I like
Lots of Cuban coffee running through my brain,
They brew that shit so strong you don’t need cocaine, and
You can talk for hours and not say a fucking thing.
I’m moving to Miami the sun shines everyday,
I’m gonna be down there basking in the rays,
Take me a boat ride out on Biscayne Bay,
Maybe Andrew come along and blow my blues away.
I’m moving to Miami gonna start brand new
Moving to Miami gonna paint my house bright blue
Lots of Cuban coffee running through my brain,
They brew that shit so strong you don’t need cocaine, and
You can talk for hours and not say a fucking thing.
I’m moving to Miami the sun shines everyday,
I’m gonna be down there basking in the rays,
Take me a boat ride out on Biscayne Bay,
Maybe Andrew come along and blow my blues away.
I’m moving to Miami gonna start brand new
Moving to Miami gonna paint my house bright blue
9. Down In The Keys
I been a lot of places, lots of places to see
there aint no place on the planet that I'd rather be
than right here baby you and me
watching the sunset down in the keys.
As that orange fireball sinks into the deep blue sea
your caress is like a warm tropic breeze
I can hear it rustle through the royal palm fronds
baby baby you're turning me on
You're sipping a drink with a pink umbrella
listening to the stories that I tell a ya
about the hurricanes that blew
and things about the pirates
that you never knew
10. Riohacha Intro
11. Riohacha
In riohacha riohacha riohacha
viven indios locos in riohacha
they all carry machine guns they kill
each other just for fun
in riohacha riohacha riohacha
los gringos come down to riohacha
los gringos a little bit macho
but they keep their eyes straight ahead
they could end up very dead
in riohacha riohacha riohacha
if you feeling plenty bold
you want to score good mountain gold
come on down come on down
to riohacha riohacha riohacha
12. Dug Him Deep
They dug him deep, they lowered him down,
they covered him up with the cold cold ground,
He was picking em’ up, he was putting them down
a dangerous game in a dangerous town,
When the law caught up there was none around,
so they dug him deep they lowered him down.
Somebody say why he done it for, I say,
he was tired of his family being so poor,
No one answer when he knock on a door,
that’s the reason that he done it for.
Somebody say oh such a shame,
that don’t matter he gone just to same,
Gonna get wet you caught in the rain, you gonna
get burned when you play near the flame.
He was picking em’ up he was putting them
down,a dangerous game in a dangerous town
13. Another Hit
Hey, sweet darling, lend me your ear,
I wrote another hit no one but you will ever hear.
I know you’re gonna like it cause you always do,
Whenever I play my latest hit for you.
So give a little listen I’m sure you’ll agree,
They could use a tune like this one up in Tennessee.
Can’t you just hear it on the radio,
Someday they’ll play it on the opry show, cause
I can write about the leaving, the losing, the lying,
and all of the things that cause all of the crying.
I can write about joy, love, and forgiving,
and all of the things that make life worth living ,too.
And I wrote another hit, I wrote another hit for you,
Yes, I wrote another hit. I wrote another hit for you.
Now lean back, baby and close your eyes,
Imagine I’m on stage with some Nashville guys.
Guitars are twanging, a fiddle’s coming in,
I can hear a banjo and a mandolin.
I think they might cry with that pedal steel
Cause I identify with the way folks feel.
I can write about the leaving…..
But it don’t really matter if I top the charts,
as long as I’m number one in your heart.
Believe me, baby life is grand,
with a woman like you as my number one fan.
You’re so sweet you’re so true, and
I wrote another hit, I wrote another hit for you…..
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