Son of a Prison Guard

Son of a Prison Guard - Train

There was a mountain on the table

Of bills that needed paid

Dishes in the kitchen sink like dreams

That never fade

A wild imagination of convicts

In the yard

Never enough time to make

Ends meet

So they put it on a credit card

Don't we all

You may not know just

Where you came from

But once upon a time

There was a carpenter

A bartender

A broken fishing line

Just south of Royal Teeth

In the town that I came from

There were architects

And astronauts

But the only one

She loved was a prison guard

And that's the only time

I ever saw true love

And Erica's a girl I liked in Georgia

Alone and kept me warm in Eugene

I guess my mother blame so hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What's fine enough to me

Is just too hard

For a son of a prison guard

There's a gate that needed painting

Clothes that needed clean

They'd say there's time

Enough for that when the fun has

All been seen

Cause when we're laying

On our death bed

A promise we won't say

Wish we would have

Worked more baby

Instead of loving you that way

No way

And that's the only time

I ever saw true love

Segourney is a girl

I met in Brooklyn

Herris got me close in New Orleans

I guess my mother blame so hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What's fine enough to me

Is just too hard

For a son of a prison guard

I go wherever you are

Whoever you are

I go wherever you are

Whoever you are

I go wherever you are

Whoever you are

I go wherever you are

Betty is a girl I knew in Charlotte

Jone left for Sydney yesterday

I guess my mother blame so hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What's fine enough to me

Is just too hard

For a son of a prison guard

Whoever you are