Live Oak (Demo)

[Verse 1]

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?

[Verse 2]

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

When I headed south at seventeen, the sheriff on my back

And I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze

So I found another victim every couple days

[Verse 3]

But the night I fell in love with her I made my weaknеss known

Through the fighters and the farmеrs diggin' dusty fields alone

And the jealous innuendos of the lonely-hearted men

Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in

[Verse 4]

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

[Verse 5]

We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter, killed a couple men aboard

When 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

[Verse 6]

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?

[Verse 7]

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

And I buried her so deep she touched the water table line

And I packed up what I needed and I headed south again