Straight Time
Got out of prison back in '86 and I found a wife
Walked the clean and narrow
Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain't gonna make me rich
In the darkness before dinner comes
Sometimes I can feel the itch
I got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I'm sick of doin' straight time
My uncle's at the evenin' table, makes his living runnin' hot cars
Slips me a hundred dollar bill says
"Charlie you best remember who your friends are"
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I ain't makin' straight time
Eight years in it feels like you're gonna die
But you get used to anything
Sooner or later it just becomes your life
Kitchen floor in the evening tossin' my little babies high
Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I'm sick of doin' straight time
In the basement huntin' gun and a hacksaw
Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor
Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands
Lay my head down on the pillow
And go driftin' off into the foreign lands
Walked the clean and narrow
Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain't gonna make me rich
In the darkness before dinner comes
Sometimes I can feel the itch
I got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I'm sick of doin' straight time
My uncle's at the evenin' table, makes his living runnin' hot cars
Slips me a hundred dollar bill says
"Charlie you best remember who your friends are"
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I ain't makin' straight time
Eight years in it feels like you're gonna die
But you get used to anything
Sooner or later it just becomes your life
Kitchen floor in the evening tossin' my little babies high
Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can't get any more than half free
I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line
I'm sick of doin' straight time
In the basement huntin' gun and a hacksaw
Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor
Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands
Lay my head down on the pillow
And go driftin' off into the foreign lands
Credits
Writer(s): Bruce Springsteen
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Other Album Tracks
- The Ghost Of Tom Joad
- Into 'To Straight Time'
- Straight Time
- Darkness On The Edge Of Town
- Intro To 'Born In The U.S.A.'
- Born In The U.S.A.
- Intro To 'Youngstown'
- Youngstown
- Sinaloa Cowboys
- Balboa Park
All Album Tracks: Live On Columbia Records Radio Hour 1995 >
Altri album
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Road Diary
- The Live Series: Songs Of Conscience
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Born in the U.S.A. Tour '84 - '85
- The Live Series: Songs From Around The World Vol. 2
- Best of Bruce Springsteen (Expanded Edition)
- Songs Of Celebration (The Live Series)
- The Live Series: Songs on Keys
- Addicted to Romance (from the film 'She Came to Me') - Single
- The Live Series: Songs of New Jersey
- The Live Series: Songs of Introspection
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