Peace of Mind-Tyler Childers

[00:00.000] 作词 : Tyler Childers [00:00.083] 作曲 : Tyler Childers [00:00.166] He drinks orange juice and vodka [00:04.444] In the basement while she's talking [00:08.833] To someone long distance for hours and hours on end [00:16.929] And as he's slowly sippin' [00:20.580] He thinks about his children [00:25.084] And the heart attacks that youngest daughter's always giving him [00:33.142]He ain't smoked no shit [00:38.022] Since he got on with the railroad [00:41.820] And he's been on with the railroad for a long and lonesome while [00:50.162] But the day that he retires [00:54.329] He will smoke himself to China [00:58.478] He will leave behind his worries as he's racing through the sky [01:08.785] Oh the days are dark down in the holler [01:16.120] Waiting for the sun to shine [01:24.744] On the back you've been breaking [01:32.724] Trying to earn peace of mind [01:41.135] She sells Avon to her buddies [01:45.905] And saves a little money [01:50.188] For all the makeup she's been using to hide away the years [01:58.590] And she sits and watches TV [02:02.399] Usually every evening [02:06.936] If there ain't some kind of ball game her daughter has to cheer [02:14.888] She sneaks menthols every morning [02:19.077] While her family's still snoring [02:23.252] As she burns the Eggos she looks back at her life [02:31.576] That heart she broke in highschool [02:35.658] He's singing on the Opry [02:39.792] She wonders what the hell that she was thinking at the time [02:48.013] Oh the days are dark down in the holler [02:55.547] Waiting for the sun to shine [03:03.883] On the back you've been breaking [03:11.889] Trying to earn peace of mind [03:28.632] Their youngest daughter Stella [03:33.193] She's been running with this fella [03:37.367] That he cannot stand the thought of, that he surely does despise [03:45.823] He's told her he best never [03:49.755] See the two of them together [03:53.982] But it's hard to keep an eye on her when you're working all the time [04:02.378] There are things he needs to tend to [04:06.354] And the bills the bank keeps sendin' [04:10.642] Lord, the zeros on the end keep pushing further to the right [04:18.665] Like a freight train hauling sorrow [04:22.921] And moving ever onward [04:26.974] Through the tunnel of forever towards the never ending light