American Pastoral

Church bells n' pretty girls like
True love and bath tub wine
A couple things I'm torn up thinkin'
All I'll leave behind because they
Say that I'm worthwhile
Change at the turnstile
Gotta get a flint rock to burn the liquor off

I want a sharpened file
I want a God to dial
I want us to die in style
And in my mind
There's a pasture full of creatures, tall grass, hares, and southern Jesus
Sweet peaches n' you

I get so crazy when you
Act like I'm crazy when I
Carve six red notches in my chest
Because I went and blew the test but I'm
Angry and I'm dog tired, I'm bound up and hog tied, I-
Need a brand new brain just wrapped in maple twine

I'm in the kudzu vine
I think I'll be just fine
I got a friend there in the blind
And in my mind
There's a pasture full of creatures, tall grass, hares, and southern Jesus
Sweet peaches n' you

I'm at the Walmart store for
Nectarines and nicotine, oh
Handguns and magazines
And postcards, places I will never see because I'm
Blinded and I'm cut down I'm
Covered up and unwound, I-
Need a green bag, honey, oh Christmas mornin' time

And I want smile lines
I wanna feel just fine
I need a friend there in the blind
And in my mind
There's a pasture full of creatures, tall grass, hares, and southern Jesus
Sweet peaches n' you