Drive-By Truckers - Cottonseed Lyrics
I came to tell my story to all these young and eager mindsTo look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyesStories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's trueGreed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and boozeIt's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothesAnd even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house doorThey say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrongI'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at allI used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suitI had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my bootI drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleasedAnd I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseedI spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentionedBut a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back fromThe meanest of the mean, I see you lock away and toss the keyBut they're all just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoeSomewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judgeThe last one that I dug myselfAnd I must admit I was sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I couldOnce his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no goodThere's a pretty girl out there said "Daddy, you stay cool tonightAll I need from you is to come home and be here by my sideSay what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouthsIf they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down"I ain't here to save no souls and even if I couldI could never save enough to put back half the ones I tookSo if they rest in torment you can't say it's cause of meThey'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee