Drunken Dreamer

[Verse 1]
Troubled dreamer always singing the blues
Your mama's eyes in your daddy's shoes
Maybe you never should have moved so far from Tennessee
Haunted by drugs and sweet tea

[Verse 2]
Dapper dreamer with your vintage looks
Horn-rimmed glasses and your history books
You told us the ways of truckers and the trains
The desolate son of a famous man

[Chorus]
Slippin' down the hill again
Slidin' down low again

[Verse 3]
Drunken dreamer with a bloody nose
Lost in the sadness of the songs that you wrote
It's a pit that we all peer into sometimes
And try to back away real slow

[Verse 4]
Tragic dreamer always said you would go
Angels calling your star-crossed soul
Every needle in the haystack, every motel on the road
You said it yourself, you'd never win

[Chorus]
Slippin' down the hill again
Slidin' down low again

[Bridge]
You were chasing down that dreamer's high
The fickle love of the sweet spotlight
I know what that's like
I know what that's like
You warned us all a hundred times
You'd drown or lose or give up your fight
Well, godspeed, my friend
Godspeed tonight

[Verse 5]
Broken dreamer, stagger on the stage
Call up your wife and get clean again
It seemed like you'd finally beaten that game
When Nashville's hopelessness called your name

[Verse 6]
Blue-eyed dreamer fell one last time
The lonely shadows of an August night
I hope you found peace, freedom at last
From all the troubles you had

[Chorus]
Slippin' down the hill again
Slidin' down low again
Slippin' down the hill again
Slidin' down low again