Roughnecks

[Verse 1]
My hands are dirty and my bones are tired
Sixteen hours, no relief
I thought I saw you in the dusty light
But all a man can do is dream
All the roughnecks in their muddy clothes
They’ll be drinking up a fight
But I’ll watch the light fade and hear the pump jacks groan
While I think of you tonight

[Pre-Chorus]
I was wrong for leaving
It was all that I could do

[Chorus]
So I’ll be coming back 'cause I’m tired of looking at you in a photograph
And I mean it
I’ll be flying past the fields and all the jacks 'cause all you ever asked
Was to be there, but I couldn’t be there

[Verse 2]
I hid my shame beneath the work I did
Too proud to know my wrongs from right
Like the oil that stains my weathered hands
It came bursting toward the light

[Pre-Chorus]
I was wrong for leaving
What a foolish thing to do

[Chorus]
So I’ll be coming back 'cause I’m tired of looking at you in a photograph
And I mean it
I’ll be flying past the fields and all the jacks 'cause all you ever asked
Was to be there, but I couldn’t be there

[Outro]
So I’ll be coming back 'cause I’m tired of looking at you in a photograph
And I mean it