Love of a Girl

I got regret, soul debt, gotta get one hit
Sunlit, unfit, still owe my alma mater
Nightmare, slow throwin', haymakers underwater
Gotta get my hair right, love you, goodnight
Gotta get cleaned up, pressed up, dressed up
Sun down comes around, find me with my head down
Toes turned in with my hands in my pockets
Like a present day hesitatin' Huckleberry Finn

So I sneak out, peace out, peek out the curtains
Of a blacked-out bedroom passed-out cartoon
Version of a person with a whole herd of sheep
Just floatin' in a circle with some capital Z's

Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl

I got one older brother, he's a fighter and a lover
And every other day, he seems to rediscover
What the underlying meaning of the dreaming and the scheming is
History colliding with the soul and the showbiz

Don't save much for a touchdown celebration
Runnin' out the tunnel on a hundred-foot elevator
Racin' through the scene like a drop of gasoline
Through a 427 in a Ford Galaxy

Never find me waiting patient
For someone to come explain it
Why he suffers so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl

It's a hard up, hard luck planet that we're livin' on
Heartache partaken of the blue ribbon
On most of the trails that we didn't put rails on
Showing at the funeral home with bells on

Gotta get woken up, opened up all the way
Lawyer on the phone saying, "hey, I just called to say
Still two or three bills in the mail on the way
Hope you doin' all right, hope ya had a great day"

Well, as a matter of fact, I ain't really doin' half bad
I was out running errands from early 'til half past four
And I got a good deal on flowers at the grocery store

Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so
Why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl