Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell
[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
Jason Isbell released Live Oak (Demo) on Fri Sep 29 2023.