Go Down Swingin'

(album: The Open Road - 2010)

Kicking and a-screaming
Only way I learn
I'm afraid of my own shadow
Not the bridge around the turn

Well I lost myself and found myself
While you were kissing ass
And I know it's not your nature
Just to let me pass

I'm gonna go down swinging
Singing till the end
I'm gonna go down swinging
You and me and your best friend
I'm gonna go down swinging
Upper cut and two left jabs
I'm gonna go down swinging with everything I have

Sometimes I am a predator
Prowling for my life
Other times I am a field mouse
Running for the sides
Of the biggest, flattest corn field
Bigger than my Indiana home
'Til the harvest comes along
And I leave my tiny bones

I'm gonna go down swinging
Singing till the end
I'm gonna go down swinging
Like the Duke recommends
I'm gonna go down swinging
For the bleachers in left field
I'm gonna go down swinging like a blade of steel

There's a scarecrow scaring nothing
Trumpet player in the barn
And he's puffing both his cheeks out
And he's lifting both his arms

As he blows his notes to heaven
As the preacher dunks you in
And all along the river
The air is sweet as sin

I wanna go down singing
Hallelujah Gabriel
I wanna go down singing
Oh, you play the blues so well
I wanna go down swinging
Three sheets to the wind
I wanna go down swinging, punch drunk to the end