Live Oak歌词

作曲 : Jason Isbell
There's a man who walks beside me
It is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him
and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for
on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things
I'm living now

I was rougher than a timber
shippin' out of Fond du Lac

When I headed south at 17
ol' sheriff on my back

I never held a lover in my arms
or in my gaze
So I found another victim every couple days
But the night I fell in love with her
I made my weakness known

Through the fires and
the farmers diggin' dusty fields alone

The jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men
Let me know what kind of country
I was sleeping in

Well you couldn't stay a loner

on the plains before the war
My neighbors took to slightin' me
I had to ask what for
Rumors of my wickedness had reached
our little town
Soon she'd heard about the boys
I used to hang around

We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter
killed a couple men or more
And I told her her eyes flickered like
the sharp steel of a sword
All the things that she'd suspected
I'd expected her to fear

Was the truth that drew her to me
when I landed here

There's a man who walks beside me
he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses
him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for
on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things
I'm living down

Well I carved a cross from live oak
and a box from shortleaf pine

Buried her so deep
she touched the water table line

I picked up what I needed
and I headed south again

To myself I wondered
would I find another friend

There's a man who walks beside her
it is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses
him with me