Are you, are you,
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man,
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here,
No stranger would it be,
If we met at midnight,
In the hanging tree.
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man, when will you pay them back?
Southern nights
Have you ever felt a southern night?
Free as a breeze
Not to mention the trees
Whistling tunes that you know and love so
Southern nights
Just as good even when closed your eyes
I apologize to anyone who can truly say
That he has found a better way
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
And we don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
And we’re keeping the ****** down
We don’t wipe our asses on Old Glory,
God and Lone Star beer are things we trust.
We keep our women virgins till they’re married
So hosin’ sheep is good enough for us.
And I’m proud to be an asshole from El Paso
A place where sweet young virgins are deflowered.
You walk down the street knee-deep in tacos
Ta-ta-ta-tacos
And the wetbacks still make twenty cents an hour.
God thinks all people like you are hateful
God thinks all people like you are an embarrassment to creation
Self righteous, judgmental, first to throw the stone
And using his name for your own agenda
Hey, this is God,
Can I please have your attention?
There’s a need for intervention.
Man, I’m disappointed in what I’m seeing.
Yeah, this is God.
You fight each other in my name,
Treat life like it’s a foolish game.
I’d say you’ve got the wrong idea.
God is in my fingers God is in my head
God is in the trigger God is in the lead
God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain
You can be right like me
With God in the hole you’re a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I’m not the same as you
Well in case you failed to notice
In case you failed to see
This is my heart bleeding before you
This is me down on my knees, and
These foolish games are tearing me apart
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You’re breaking my heart
If I could stick a knife in my heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust
Would it help to ease the pain?
Ease your brain?
After all these years of runnin’ ‘round
Flyin’ high and Fallin’ down
Well, the time has come at last
To rest my heart
And ease my past…
And here, she’s acting happy,
Inside her handsome home.
And me, I’m flying in my taxi,
Taking tips, and getting stoned.
I go flying so high, when I’m stoned.
I got stoned and I missed it
Till I find some way to escape the past
I’ll be watching the world
From behind the bars and through the glass
She handed me down the sentence the day she left
Ninety-nine years to life, and stoned to death
99 days of torture
99 nights of fear
99 days in jail
And nobody seems to care
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
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Do you ever want to wear your body out
Until there’s nothing left to take?
The rain began to push you away
Has midnight come too soon again?
Midnight lover
On the lookout for you
Midnight lover
Help me see it
Help me see the night on through…