With Apologies to Tulsa

Alone in an extended stay
The cigarette stained window shades
Can't block the light from Shoney's from outside
Tulsa time is hard to kill
Next week's no better, Fayetteville
They'd never send me somewhere like Hawaii
I take a drive around the town
Braum's and Quick Trip all around
The locals stare, they know I don't fit in
Passing time like they do here
With bellies full of three two beer
And talk of Jason White and Billy Sims

Careful what you say or do
Oral Roberts watches you
His praying hands a statue down by Jenks
The water's hard and what that means
I scrub and scrub but can't get clean
Leaves orange stains on every bath and sink
And me

There's a run on the bank at the Bailey Building & Loan
But George can't save them he's vacationing in Paris and Rome
Everything that can go wrong seems to have all happened this year

People try to tell me that it could be worse and I know
I have my have my health I have a job even if it's on the road
I try to say it's Tulsa but the problem's between my ears