Paroles de Live oak

There's a man who walks beside me

it 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 now ?

i was rougher than a timber

shippin' out of fond du lac

when i headed south at 17

ol' sheriff on my back

i never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze

so i found another victim every couple days

but the night i fell in love with her

i made my weakness known

through the fires and the farmers diggin' dusty fields alone

the jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men

let me know what kind of country i was sleeping in

well you couldn't stay a loner

on the plains before the war

my neighbors had been 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

we'd robbed a great lakes freighter,

killed a couple men or more

and 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

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 ?

well i carved a cross from live oak

and a box from shortleaf pine

buried her so deep

she touched the water table line

i picked up what i needed

and i headed south again

to myself i wondered

would i find another friend

there's a man who walks beside her,

it is who i used to be

and i wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me.