Hear it from me

The Drive By Truckers live in a dark and dangerous South. I was listening to them a lot yesterday. The more you listen to them, the more you get sucked in. Here's one from me, loosely influenced by their sentiment "We ain't ever gonna change".

Hear it from me

Now you’re pointing fingers and everybody knows
that means there’s fingers pointing right back at you.
You know we’ve come a long ways, but the problem is
We didn’t have a long way to go.

You get it when you’re thinking it over
But you lose it when you want it to hold
I never meant to say you were a bad Hello Kitty
But ain’t Hello Kitty out in the cold?

So you can hear it from me
It’s gonna be what it be

Your daddy called you darling. Daddy called you princess.
But your daddy he took off on the run
Had him cornered when the troopers up in South Carolina
Found him chewing on the end of his gun

He wasn’t going back with ‘em peaceful
And there really wasn’t nothing to say
So it ended right there up in Richland County
His mind, it was all over the place

So you can hear it from me
It’s gonna be what it be

Powdered and perfumed, all painted and fake
Dresses that got nothing to hide.
Miss Victoria’s Secret ain’t no secret any longer
You just really ain’t that pretty inside

You want yourself a monogrammed silver spoon and platter
They don’t got them on this side of the tracks.
‘Bout the only thing you’re taking from this Alabama trailer
is the knowledge there ain’t no looking back.

So you can hear it from me
It’s gonna be what it be

Hear it from me
You gotta be what you be.


Travelin' Ed