Whiskey - Copperhead

We pick up in New YorkExplain City Try to find a man I never got to be But when I push down on the pavement I found the whole thing so much harder than it seemed The only deal I ever signed No devil drew a dotted line The stage was set, the words were mine I'm not complainin' Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Wake up, shake it off, and repeat It's just a phase, it's not forever It's just a phase, but I still might have a ways to go Every night around this time My friends and I retreated like a race When I really start to break it down I wouldn't trust a girl who knew about this place Barkin' on with no one left Speak softly underneath my breath "Hey world, you ain't seen nothin' left" Great, now it's rainin' Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Wake up, shake it off, and repeat It's just a phase, it's not forever It's just a phase, but I still might have a ways to go Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Dream somebody missed me Wake up, shake it off, and repeat And repeat and repeat after me Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Cut me off and pour me in the street Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey Water, water, water sleep

Dancin' on the creek bank Blue eyes and auburn hair It was the best years of our life Didn't have a care Goin' 90 miles an hour Drunk in an old dirt road Two young ass kids Back where the dogwood flowers grow Then graduation came You was big city bound I was goin' nowhere fast So I just hung around By the next time I seen you Your love had turned cold So I guess you broke my heart Back where the dogwood flowers grow White on the bloom, that April moon It could have been forever, darlin', had we stayed together But you had to go, time don't slow It took me further from your home, back where the dogwood flowers grow So I took to drinkin' I guess you wouldn't recognize me My soul's been torn and twisted Like an old dogwood tree We used to talk about forever That was a million miles ago So I'll see it if I see Back where the dogwood flowers grow White on the bloom, that April moon You ain't dead set on leavin', when you miss the one you need Just getting real, he'll remember when You had that hand to hold, back where the dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow The dogwood flowers grow

Port Harcourt resident, they are not breathing fresh air My people make una dey see am Say Port Harcourt resident they no dey breathing fresh air So when you wake in the morning, you go cough You go cough black soothe The cars, if you see the way the cars them go dey black everywhere Curtain everywhere, na so everyday na him we dey mop glass, every day I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o Some people bind and cast Some of them pray and fast I say see pastor don dey fat Shey na the thing God command Because of oil and gas My city so dark Pollution make the air turn black Every man have to stay on guard I fall to easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o People dey sleep for their house, dem get no work Some they walk on the other side of town, dem dey for hold-up Some they pray for the traffic make dey hail you, make you show love And when e reach when to go back home you go go club I no say e no easy, my brother But still dey take am easy, my brother As long as you are breathing, my brother As long as you no sink inside water I fall too easy, and I poured the whiskey (ok) But no be disability o, no be disability o I fall too easy, and I poured the whiskey But no be disability o, no be disability o People wey dey pray for the rain, but e no fall Rain dey fall for another man place, and e no stop E be like swimming pool for him house as e don flood All the things wey him get for hin house many don lost And my farm wey dey Shekpame As me and you dey talk so e, they don kpoose The ones wey remain self no reach anything We dey talk about three-hundred fowl for door Abeg make Government come Make they come, make dem try Three-hundred fowl, una know how many cartoons now? Abeg my everything, my clothe, my property I no know wetin I wan even recue from there now As me and you dey talk now, I leave some for there You see my body? Na water I dey come from I even dey like we dey swimming pool now But swimming pool dey learn for the where me dey bros This one now, e no dey come down, whereas

I don't mind work and I love to fish I been known as a son of a bitch When life gets tough I roll my sleeves up Yeah, I get it done it's always enough I toil real hard with nothing to show I owe it all to the savings and loan So break our backs and make us slaves All for the love of the USA Times get harder give me a fire starter Drench my self up in holy water Spiritual things the heartland bleeds I need a Bible, a gun and gasoline Ain't nothing much to do in this town The industry's gone and the mill has closed down And up on the hill lives a Jezebel She's got some sin and some pills to sell So no need to lie with your opium eyes When you got a script there's no need to hide Bitch and moan and dance in the street We would rather have bombs then food to eat Times get harder give me a fire starter Drench my self up in holy water Spiritual things the heartland bleeds I need a Bible, a gun and gasoline And you think that you're really gonna make a change Maybe you and I are the ones to blame Times get harder give me a fire starter Drench my self up in holy water Spiritual things the heartland bleeds I need a Bible, a gun and gasoline Times get harder give me a fire starter Drench my self up in holy water Spiritual things the heartland bleeds I need a Bible, a gun and gasoline Gasoline Gasoline Gasoline Gasoline Gasoline

Old man is walking down memory lane His piercing stare tears out through the rain You can see in his eyes Ain't too much life left in them veins He tells his son "I'll be out on the run if I ever get out of this chair" And if you don't mind, I'll be out of my mind Thanks for the time you could spare Cause I know you're leavin Don't leave me believing I might Your smile is misleadin Your eyes are deceiving my fight Cause I can't hold on And I can't move on Young man is walkin down Faith Avenue Can't understand what he's fixin to lose You can see through his tears a moment of fear come creepin through He tells his father he wouldn't even bother If I could ever get over you And if you don't mind, I'll make up for lost time I swear on my life this is true Cause I know you're leavin Don't leave me believing I might Your smile is misleadin Your eyes are deceiving my fight Cause I can't hold on And I can't move on Cause I know you're leavin Don't leave me believing I might Your smile is misleadin Your eyes are deceiving my fight Cause I can't hold on And I can't move on

Oh Lord, won't you let me stay in the place where I was born? In the fields Granddaddy tilled and all my seeds are sown Ain't no love for a poor dirt farmer, a genuine son of the south And the water's high and the bills are too and levy tumblin' down Daddy owed the banker man So we was drownin' before the flood That river washed us all away Left us right here in the mud Yeah, in the mud We built this house upon the Mississippi back in 1879 Over a hundred years, my family's been here barely scrapin' by We just some good old country folk Tryin' to weather the storm How we gonna pay when the interest rates Done got higher than the corn? Ain't no man gonna take it away Six feet down in the blood Still the crops they don't come alive And you'll die, right here in the mud Yeah, in the mud Who's this creepin' through the sticks? Let me talk at 'em with my 30 ought six A couple city guys with suits and ties Bet they can't feel this crosshair right between their eyes I got no place to go and no place to run Just a dirt farmer's boy with his Granddaddy's gun Step across that line, I'm gonna tell you, son We all gonna die, right here in the mud Yeah, in the mud

Losing myself further and further it seems Hell I'm burnin a hole I'm killin all my dreams You came along helped me find my way Oh but I'm so far gone now Don't know if I'll ever be saved Cause there's lightning in the bottle I'm bound to ride away That lightning brings my hard times That lightning brings my pain But I cannot fix it no matter how hard I try I'm stuck here in misery The wreckage of my life Yea I've hit the bottle but not like this before Half drunk running around every town Every pretty little whore More and more I love you More and more I hate you just the same Oh and I fill you up just to know my pain Cause there's lightning in the bottle I'm bound to ride away That lightning brings my hard times That lightning brings my pain But I cannot fix it no matter how hard I try I'm stuck here in misery The wreckage of my life Yea, there's lightning in the bottle I'm bound to ride away That lightning brings my hard times That lightning brings my pain But I cannot fix it no matter how hard I try I'm stuck here in misery The wreckage of my life The wreckage of my life Losing myself further and further it seems Hell I'm burnin a hole I'm killing all my dreams