Live Oak
(专辑: Southeastern - 2013)
There's a
man who walks beside me he is who I
used to be And I
wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me And I
wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around Could it be the
man who did the
things I'm living down I
was rougher than the
timber shipping out of Fond du Lac When I
headed south at seventeen, the
sheriff on my back I'd never held a
lover in my arms or in my gaze So I
found another victim every couple days But the
night I
fell in love with her, I
made my weakness known To the
fighters and the
farmers digging dusty fields alone The
jealous innuendos of the
lonely-hearted men Let me know what kind of country I
was sleeping in Well you couldn't stay a
loner on the
plains before the
war When my neighbors took to slighting me, I
had to ask what for Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town Soon she'd heard about the
boys I
used to hang around We'd robbed a
great-lakes freighter, killed a
couple men aboard When I
told her, her eyes flickered like the
sharp steel of a
sword All the
things that she'd suspected, I'd expected her to fear Was the
truth that drew her to me when I
landed here There's a
man who walks beside me he is who I
used to be And I
wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me And I
wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around Could it be the
man who did the
things I'm living down Well I
carved her cross from live oak and her box from short-leaf pine And buried her so deep, she'd touch the
water table line And picked up what I
needed and I
headed south again To myself, I
wondered, “Would I
ever find another friend” There's a
man who walks beside her, he is who I
used to be And I
wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me