Mountain Town

Going back to the mountain town
City lifes really gotten me down
Going Back to the mountain town

Cabin living way up in the sky
That mountain air gets me so high
I’m never coming down from those clouds

Going back to the mountain town
Where the roads are dirt and the girls don’t frown
Going back to the mountain town
You don’t hail a cab you take a pickup down
I’m going back to the mountain town

Freight train comes a rollin’ by
Everynight about half past nine
I’ll be sitting on the front porch drinkin that homemade wine

Owl calls most every night
While I’m fishing for the cats in the firefly light
Wading in the moon on the water burning white

Crickets scream and it frees my soul
I’m gonna stay till I grow old
When I die please lay me down
In the river below

Bucket full of clams and mud to my ears
where the hell've I been all these years
I'm stayin now, in the Mountain Town.


Home

…And I feel things are changing
Not as easy as it used to be
Dog next door why don’t’ you bark no
I aint been home in ages

Old house down the road ain’t there no more
Neither is charlie’s hardware store
I’m a stranger in my own home town
I ain’t been home in ages

This here road still bring me back home
And back again…


Damn You River

Lost my baby 3 yrs ago today
Never thought she’d leave me, nevermind this way
Damn You River
Damn You River

Water was strong but not for long
Canoe flipped on a log and she was gone
Damn You River
Damn You River

Sometimes when I miss her
I sit on the riverbank with her picture
I get wasted and cry and
Scream at the ripples rolling by


Digging for Diamonds

I get up and I put on my dirty clothes
Lace up my boots and head the front door
Where I’m going, I aint got the slightest idea but I’ll
Keep on going till I disappear

Digging for diamonds in a coal mine
I come home broke and dirty every night
My heart is set on something I can’t find
Digging for diamonds in a coal mine

Another night set out in that cold
Ax in hand and some whiskey in my coat
I keep going back, It’s all that I know
Picking down in that shaft with all my soul

Sometimes it seems dark and hopeless
Sometimes I see a shimmering light
I’m a dreamer in all the wrong places
Digging for diamonds is an endless fight



What’s in this Water?

Everything is turning brown
Even the sky even the ground
Everything is bound to die
Even you, even I

What’s in this water we are drinking
What’s in these thoughts we are thinking

My back porch light flickered out
Now I’m afraid to leave my house
Someone tell me where we are
I was told the river wasn’t far

There were falling leaves
Now there’s falling trees
Birds are dropping from the sky

Everything has turned to brown
Even the sky, even the ground


Don’t Bet it on the Farm

It all starts when the crickets go silent
Then you hear the crash of iron on iron
When the sun won’t break the clouds
And your lover stops coming around

Sometimes alone is your safest bet
Like getting clean without getting wet
Rambling around from town to town
With no weight holding you down you’ll never drown

Troubles come and women go
Time flies by like the eagle
Wishing never did no harm just
Don’t go and bet it on the farm.

There’s demons lurking in our shadows
They wanna take our money and our home
They fill our mailbox with letters and demands but
Don’t ever let those mothers in your home

Thinkin’ About Runnin’

Thinkin’ bout runnin, Oh Thinkin’
Breezing through small towns, clean of my name
Eating in old dive bars,
Singing for my pay

Hitchin’ miles and miles, Ain’t even gonna pack
Through deserts and mountains, Ain’t ever looking back
Can’t stay here longer
I’m slipping through the cracks

Bills are everywhere, rent is overdue
I probably even owe some money to you
Best be on my way before I get done in
Been Thinkin’ about runnin’

I’ve been feeling crowded, can hardly even breathe
Gotta hit that open road, put some miles on these feet
Ain’t tellin’ where I’m goin
I’ll finally be free

I don’t wanna work my life away
And one day be broken and old
If I never put myself up for sale
How in the hell can I already be sold?


I Wish I Didn’t Have a Heart

I wouldn’t sit alone on a sunny afternoon
Listenin to old Hank records, locked in my bedroom
I wouldn’t drink myself, nearly half to death
If I didn’t have a pulse or need another breathe

I wish that I didn’t have heart
And when I saw you I didn’t fall apart
I wish that I didn’t have a heart

When I’d see you with him holding hands at the store
I wouldn’t lose my mind and throw my groceries on the floor
I’d be on some road halfway across the states
My guitar in my truck, starting a clean slate

A heart is like a chain that will never let you fly
You’ll never see this world when love has made you blind


Drinkin’ & Sleepin’

Drinkin’ & sleepin’ is all I’ve been doing
Since you been gone
Gonna find me a new love
One that knows her rights from wrongs

Stright outta work and I’m in my dirty shirt
I’m headed on down to the bar
I lost the one I love Dreaming of being a rockstar
If I could take it back you know I’d Do it all the same

Turning in my bed from repeating in my head
Them brake up words you done said
Rolling around like a dead man that didn’t wanna be dead
Stop this storm from rolling, so I can open my eyes again


To Live and Be Free

Poundin' the pavement for a decent job
cause I fell in love last week
Scroungin' around for a better life
so this one she don't see

Could she ever love a boy who ain't got money?
and will I ever get my feet on the ground?

I paid my dues and I come up empty but
it ain't from lack of tryin'
Taken the road less traveled but
I feel the sun is risin'

Dyin' to know
What's its like To Live and Be Free


Lonesome Road

Been a lonesome road, aint found nothing yet
I’ve turned every stone that I seen
Must be some way out cause I got in
Been a Lonesome Road, it’s always been

Been a Lonesome Road, dust in my eyes
Aint worth stopping for the people I’d find
My tank is empty and my battery low
I swear one day I’ll die on this Lonesome Road

I’ve been growing older as the miles go rolling by
I’m a fool for not pulling over and asking which way is right

Shadows of the clouds from the moonlight on the hill
Remind me that time never sits still
I look back on my life and I wonder how
This Lonesome Road aint put me in the ground.



All lyrics written by Paul Cataldo c. 2009