Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
Hayes Carll
This song is the opening track on Hayes Carll’s 2008 album Trouble in Mind. It was co-written with Ray Wylie Hubbard. A version of the song appeared on Hubbard’s 2011 album A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment. Their respective versions of the song differ in a number of ways, including structurally and...
I got a woman she's wild as Rome
She likes to lay naked and be gazed upon
She crosses a bridge and then sets it on fire
Lands like a bird on a telephone wire
Wine bottles scattered like last nights clothes
Cigarettes, papers, and dominoes
She laughs for a minute about the shape I'm in
Says, "You be the sinner honey, I'll be the sin."
Chorus:
I'm gonna holler and I'm gonna scream
I'm gonna get me some mescaline
She brings me roses and a place to lean
A drunken poets dream
There's some money on the table and a pistol on the floor
Some old paper back books of Louis L'Amour
She says, "Honey, don't worry 'bout judgement day."
All these people goin' to heaven, they're just in our way
Repeat Chorus
And all my life I laid around while the colors all turned blue
Closed my eyes and finally found it brought me back to you
I got a woman she's wild as Rome
She likes to lay naked and be gazed upon
She crosses a bridge then sets it on fire
Lands like a bird on a telephone wire
Repeat Chorus