Jonny Burke (Dedpan Music, BMI) and Hayes Carll (Highway 87 Music, admin. by BUG Music, SESAC)

how many painter's splashed colors on a canvas
to never see it get hung on a wall
never saw in the end what could have been
the greatest painting the world never saw

how many poets felt the hate and the love
and born with desire from the heavens above
how many poets that had all the words
died in the gutter, their songs never heard

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don't let me fall cause i might not get up again
just hold me tighter right now what i need's a friend
i've come too far for this to be the end
so don't let me fall cause i might not get up

i've walked the highway since i can't remember
cutting my poor family right down to the bone
from the shadows of hell to the winds of december
layed down with a stranger woke up all alone

god knows i've tried to hold onto a feeling
a song or a memory to keep in my heart
i've asked forgiveness from those i've forsaken
forgiveness don't come and it tears me apart

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killing this pain outside in the rain
one hand holds a bottle, one hand holds my shame
i don't know which comes first
i don't know which is worse
riding behind or inside the hearse

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