I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.
I’m looking for a woman who’s head is mixed up like mine.
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe.
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life’s hurried tangled road.
The highlight of my career? That’s easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.
You have to know that you’re the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you’ll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.
God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.
You can have your youth It’ll rot before your eyes.
If you don’t have to write songs, why write them? I’ve got enough where I don’t really feel the urge to write anything additional.
People don’t live or die, people just float.
I practice a faith that’s been long abandoned Ain’t no altars on this long and lonesome road.
The whole world’s a bottle, And life’s but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain’t worth a damn.
Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone.
Love is all there is, it makes the world go ’round Love and only love, it can’t be denied No matter what you think about it You just won’t be able to do without it Take a tip from one who’s tried.
Even I don’t know what I’m saying most of the time.
Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I’m on the road and it looks like I’m here to stay.