Never Gonna Change

Never Gonna Change - Drive-By Truckers

Let this be a lesson to you girl:

Don't come around

Where you know you

Don't belong

They're riding on the avenue

And probably coming after you

And they all look mean and strong

Mean and strong like liquor

Mean and strong like fear

Strong like the people

From South Alabama

And mean like the people

From here

Take it from me

We ain't never gonna change

Daddy used to empty out

His shotgun shells

And fill 'em full of

Black-eyed peas

He'd aim real low and tear

Out your ankles or rip

Right through your knees

There ain't much traffic

On the highway

There ain't much traffic

On the lake

The ATF and the ABI

Got everything they could take

Take it from me

They didn't take it from me

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't doin' nothin' wrong

We ain't never gonna change

So shut your mouth

And play along

I thought about going in the army

I thought about going overseas

I wouldn't have trouble

With a piss test;

Only problem is my bad left knee

My brother got picked up

At Parker's got him

A ride in a new Crown Vic

They said that he was movin' on

A federal level but

They couldn't really

Make it stick

Take it from me

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't doin' nothin' wrong

We ain't never gonna change

So shut your mouth

And play along

You can throw me

In the Colbert County jailhouse

You can throw me off

The Wilson Dam

But there ain't much difference

In the man

I wanna be and the man

I really am

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't doin' nothin' wrong

We ain't never gonna change

So shut your mouth and play along

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't never gonna change

We ain't never gonna change