Back To The Wall - Steve Earle

作词：Steve Earle

作曲：Steve Earle

Well sometimes in the evenings

I start to get that feeling

Like I'm empty inside

I know I'm doin good now but

tonight I'm headed downtown

Down by the riverside

I sit underneath the freeway with

an old friend from the old days

And a bottle of wine

Well he used to call me big time

and he knew someday that Id shine

Said hed seen all the signs

He said

Keep yourself to yourself

Keep your bedroll dry

And boy you never can tell

What the shadows hide

Keep ene eve on the ground

Pick up whatever you find

Cause youve got no place to fall

When your backs to the wall

Hes gettin old and its showin

when I asked him how its goin

He said I've seen better I guess

I've been rained on I've been frozen

but this heres the life I've chosen

If it just wasnt for the loneliness

Now this river suits me to a t

but if you're trying to raise a family

It ain't no place to be

Theres a kid down by the dump there

ought to be in grade school somewhere

Now he hangs out with me

And I told him

Keep yourself to yourself

Keep your bedroll dry

And boy you never can tell

What the shadows hide

Keep ene eve on the ground

Pick up whatever you find

Cause youve got no place to fall

When your backs to the wall

Well we finished off the bottle

and I told him joe I think I ought to

Be headed uptown

Well it was late and Id been drinkin

drivin home I got to thinkin

Bout what's been going down

Cause theyre nervous down on wall street

but theyre trying to keep it upbeat

Or maybe they just don't care

But down at the river eyes are burnin

cause they feel the tables turnin

So if you wind up down there

Keep yourself to yourself

Keep your bedroll dry

And boy you never can tell

What the shadows hide

Keep ene eve on the ground

Pick up whatever you find

Cause youve got no place to fall

When your backs to the wall