Fruit of the Vine

Out in the junkyard in the pines
They're working over time
Hacking back them vines
That're eating up their their minds
Fruit of the vine...
That old fruit of the vine...

We're doing 30 in a 45---
Disregarding highway signs
You learn to take your time
Down south in the summertime
Fruit of the vine...
That old fruit of the vine...

It ain't no crime in being alive
It ain't no sin---
We're just trying to get by
Lead our lives one day at a time
Hand to mouth---
Low down in dirty old south
Living on the fruit of the vine

Now some say love come C-O-D
Others turn to G-O-D
Cash it in on PCP, IOUs and IEDs
Fruit of the vine...
That old fruit of the vine

Scraps of paper in a tree
Photographs and memories
Trainwrecks of tangled dreams
Lives coming apart at the seams...
Fruit of the vine...
That old fruit of the vine

It ain't no crime in being alive
It ain't no sin---
We're just trying to get by
Lead our lives one day at a time
Hand to mouth---
Low down in dirty old south...
Living on the fruit
Fruit of the vine

Now that old vine, it never sleeps
And it strangles as it creeps
Out in the junkyard in the pines
Fall asleep and you will die;
Fruit of the vine...
That old fruit of the vine

Think you're gonna get you little piece of the sky
Up in the sweet by and by?
As for me I believe I'll try
To get mine before I die
Fruit of the vine---
That old fruit of the vine

'Cause it ain't no crime in being alive
It ain't no sin---
We're just trying to get by
Lead our lives one day at a time
Hand to mouth---
Low down in dirty old south...
Living on the fruit of the vine