Too Good For Me
(专辑: Hard-Headed Fool - 2007)
I
was learning how to love and love and learn. I
fell for a
girl one county north of the
town where I
was born. She was the
most athletic senior in the
school where her mama taught. Popular and well-respected, everything that I
was not. But I
took a
chance and stole a
kiss in her daddy's living room Then drove home lonely in the
dark, trembling heart and hands unglued Setting myself up for heartbreak. What could she see in me? Strung out with no plans for the
future. White trash, filthy as could be. She was too good for me. She was too good for me. When she went off to college, I
followed her out West. She hit the
books and I
hit the
bar rooms, My head in the
clouds with all the
rest. Oh, she was too good. We got married early summer at an old plantation home, Both got jobs and starting paying a
mortgage and student loans. A
dog and cat like our two children, we don't sit and watch TV. Til the
glass of whiskey I
was drinking turned into two or three. We both knew something was missing 'bout the
time that our first young one came. We trimmed a
room with our Alma Mater, picked out a
good boy's name. I
watched in awe there as she labored, never felt so close to her. Hand in hand through every hour, it was all so beautiful. I
cried Honey, you're too good for me. Still too good for me. Now I
hear them giggling down the
hallway. Man, I
wish I
had the
time to play. But I've got a
lot of work to do here. Yeah, we've got another one on the
way. Oh, it's all too good. Too good for me. I
ain't seen God but I
know he's out there, Cause that woman still sleeps to the
left of me. I've got more than any man could ask for. Lord, you've been too good, you've been too good for me. Oh, you've been too good. You've been too good for me.