New Orleans

(album: Waylon & Willie III - 2018)

[Jelly Roll:]
I was out here playing devilish games
So it's only right I ended up set up in flames
I'm a grown man so I'll never complain
I'm addicted to pain and being left in the rain
I just sit and think about what I never became
I pray everyday that I'm ready to change
They say once it's bad that it's never the same
It's like my car broke down on memory lane
I can't wait 'til I face all the critics
That ain't never had to face the decisions that I had
To know if they had made the same ones shut the fuck up
You don't get paid to hate for a living
It's so easy to point your finger and judge
Hop in the pig pen and get to swinging the mud
Everything that we was, everything we've become
Every war that we won, everything that I've done
Ha, Lord can you hear my prayer
It's something 'bout the city I can feel I swear
I'm on my way God 'cause you're really there
Alabama to Mississippi, now I'm almost there
Before I felt your presence I was almost scared
A trade with the Devil I was almost shared
Now I'm headed to the delta where no one cares
Where our souls are buried and loneliness is shared

In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

[Struggle Jennings:]
Heard a rumor they was coming for me
Saw a glimpse into the future I was smiling counting blood money
Walking down the dark alley street lights flickering
Everything around me seemed so different
Figuring I must be lost, bad feeling in my gut I gotta dust it off
I got a chip on my shoulder better brush it off
I keep reaching for the gun having crazy thoughts
I heard a mother crying tears fallen from her old eyes
Pedal drops as a rose dies, see it clear with closed eyes
Gunshot then the crow flies, night fall and the smoke rise
Couldn't see the beauty inside all of the darkness
Vengeance and love I get confused with being heartless
Heartless cross me out for a couple dollars
Running with the Devil and wonder what trouble follows
Standing in the street, surrounded by my past
Every sin I ever committed, is taking me at last
Saw karma's face in a black hoodie
With some gold teeth, and heard the police
Heard a loud scream, seen the barrel flash
Felt the sharp pain and now I can't breath
Woke up from a dream in New Orleans
Put my hands up as the choir sings

[Jelly Roll:]
In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans
The darkness where the heartless and demons scream
Been trying to come clean, but it ain't what it seems
I found a nightmare in my dreams. down in New Orleans