Lyrics
Where The Song Went ©
I took a step back, and fell right off the edge
Didn’t know just how close I was
A perfect picture and a perfect plan
Just follow the X to the promised land
If I’d known that I’d have to sing along
& tell the same stories the others tell
I’d have built a country-sized library of lies
And burned it straight to hell
If you make it around my way, back here in the heyday
Hooked on that old sweet sound
Saying how I believed, and how foolish of me
With bourbon in my beard and bitter on my crown
I’m king of a lowdown castle on high
Where hopes and dreams and the song went to die
Hopes and dreams and the song went to die
I’ll say it was the world, spinning by me
Didn’t make it on fast enough
Not a Johnny Come Lately, or a Jimmy Has-Been
I’m a Joe that Never-Was
Could’ve taken the bait, and become what I hated
And left for the road yesterday
But you can’t sail a ship if you’re scared to sink
And I came apart in the bay
If you make it around my way, back here in the heyday
Hooked on that old sweet sound
Saying how I believed, and how foolish of me
With bourbon in my beard and bitter on my crown
I’m king of a lowdown castle on high
Where hopes and dreams and the song went to die
Hopes and dreams and the song went to die
Where did it go? How I long to know
The music I wanted to make
Chewed up and spit out by travestied mouths
Intent to corrupt and to take
Would I have been the one to follow the son?
And fill those old outlaw shoes
Or was I destined to be an obituary
On the back of the Billboard news