Jim White

They tell me miracles abound now more than ever, but I don't care. They say it's better to be blessed than it is to be clever, but I don't care. 'Cause I got 10 miles to go on a 9 mile road, and it's a rocky rough road, but I don't care. For life's nothing if...

Way down south I know a girl who is blind. She walks alone along a lonely highway each day. She dreams that one day a man will pull up in a car. He'll open up the door, she'll climb in and he will say: "Hey babe, whatcha know? Hope you're ready to go, 'Cause t...

The days of our innocence and grace blow by. The smiles we wear upon our face blow by. Oh, the sweet wine of youth goes sour over time. Seems like the more that you lose, the more you ache to find... A town called Amen. Like a bright-eyed smile from some l...

Sunday I am young and wild, Monday I go lame. Tuesday I start twitching, Wednesday I'm insane. Thursday I lay dying, Friday I'm quite dead. Saturday I get carried away by things better left unsaid. But heaven ain't no place, brother, and love ain't no word sis...

I cannot be superman no more... I cannot walk upon the high wire in my mind. And now that I understand the extent of my mortal coil, Suddenly and somehow I have lost all my desire... To shine, to shine like the sun... To shine, to shine like the sun... On a su...

Sometimes you gotta take off your shoes, sit right down in the middle of the road, kick off the dust, and deal with the news that you are blind. These dreams are familiar. These are places we've been before. Somewhere in the wild blue yonder, lies the path wh...

Bluebird on a telephone line. How are you? I'm feeling fine. Sweetly do I whisper your name. Lonely solo taxi ride to a cheap motel on the wrong side of the tracks. The facts are tricky to explain. Cold front bearing down, blowing in from Birmingham. By dawn t...

Big ole car moving fast, Watch the world go spinning by Little wheels inside my brain, God I wonder where I'm going Where you going? Need a ride? We got time to see a movie It's all right, it's okay, I can tell you my big secret: Sho' is cool. Sho' is cool. I...

That night we drank wine from the crazy well. Shot a shotgun out the window of our automobile. We was young, we was wild and we sure had our fun. Until the sheriff caught up with us and we tried to run. Now we return to Earth on borrowed wings lifted from the...

Fools wind blowing up brown bible verses. Dust storm of memory. Truck stop reverie. 3 AM in my home town, not a soul stirring around. Mr. Trucker Man, don't slow down in this little town. 'Cause I'm traveling faster than the speed of regret. What I was born kn...

Door is locked, no one's home Frame is empty, picture's missing Throw that rock right through the window Hey, I know him, he's a singer Roam around, another town, looks like Phoenix, Arizona Borrow the car from it's owner That sleepy head, he's dreaming the dr...

Wonder if you know, what you see ain't what you get. Wonder have you learned a dirty word - did you forget? 'Cause there's talk on the street... say sugar taste sweet... but it'll tear you apart... when what's easy on the eyes... is hard on the heart... when y...

We drift along down rivers Past the times we were born Past broken smokestack factories Graveyards of lost loved ones We cast our dreams on waters dark We just watch them drift away We turn our eyes heavenward But feel no need to pray Chorus It’s that day upo...

Where in the world did you come from my dear? Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here? I bought this ticket to Mobile, but I been stranded all day...p.a. said the bus broke down ten miles away from the station. So seldom a door...so seldom a key.....

I found a blue hair comb with a busted tooth gonna comb out my hair in this telephone booth gonna comb out love, gonna comb out hate gonna get me a new look and I can't wait. I took a lethal dosage of dope in my youth, bit the hook of Jesus - Oh! The terrible...

Sunlight in the weeds...I wish that I was blind...to the ghosts dancing in the breeze...blowing through my mind. Got a Corvair in my yard. It hasn't run in fifteen years. It's a home for the birds now. It's no longer a car. Last night I dreamed that I was swim...

How we get lost Going from here to there Counting numbers in the air Cheekbone to a cool stone wall See the fireflies in this mason jar Light my smile like a faded scar We used to wonder who we are These days we don't care How we get lost, how we get lost Go...

When too much beauty numbs the mind, when what you see ain't what you get, when digging deeper what you find, is skeletones best left behind... We go CRASH! into the sun. Ain't enough bullets in this here gun! We got cash! Now who's talking trash? Jumping up...

It's the twilight hour. As the sun goes down, I see a flatbed Ford with a scrapyard load rattle off through town. The railroad crossing lights flash on--- there ain't no train in sight. A crescent moon will soon ascend as day gives way to night. and I fe...

Out in the junkyard in the pines they're working over time hacking back them vines, that're eating up their their minds. Fruit of the vine... that old fruit of the vine... We're doing 30 in a 45--- disregarding highway signs. You learn to take your ti...

I like to go out walking in the ghost-town of my brain. Kick the rusted scrap-iron of my memories and dreams. Yeah, here's a busted compass...look, the needle's standing still. Much as some folks hate to lose their way, me, I pray to God that I will. I got a c...

Jesus and the fiery furnace. Devil and the deep blue sea. Preacher say I'm gonna burn in hell for all eternity. But when I have my judgement day and I lock eyes with my savior, well, This is what I'm gonna tell him when he asks about my behavior... I'm gonna s...

I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi. My girlfriend blows a boozy good-bye kiss. I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata. Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone. Still, I'm feeling pretty good about the future. Yeah, everything is peaches but th...

Radio song, playing in the car, don't even know where we are Don't know the time of day or the color of the clothes I'm wearing. Would you look at that sky, pretty little stars twinkling far above in heaven Sorta makes me feel like dancing, right here in the m...

Bus stop rain...busted power train..got a broke down '69 LTD... I hocked my tools...to buy my brain...a funeral wreath...from the FTD Blank billboards on the highway of life. Counterfeit bills in the neon lights. This stick-shift driven saw-dust dream, show-bi...

If Jesus drove a motor home, I wonder would he drive pedal to the metal, or real slow? Checking out the stereo. Cassette playing Bob Dylan, motivation tapes. Tricked up Winnebago, with the tie-dye drapes. If Jesus drove a motor home... If Jesus drove a motor h...

Let us sleep in ... Let us roll among the weeds Let us wear our ragged hearts Upon our tattered sleeves Let us stroll among the strangers Contemplate their happy fates But ...locate little ... And now if I stayed It's fun to cut the ... collide my...your pede...

Oooh, it's been a long long one day longer than a country mile stronger than a hurricane oooh, it's been a long long day. This red barn in the field. Dusty winds blow round it. It stands in its place firm and tall. So safe inside am I that I can see one...

Dixie is a scourge and a scar and a girl in my heart and a state of mind. Jesus is the man with a plan... he's a short haired Mexican friend of mine. This small town crowd will drag you down-- can't leave your past behind. Wipers in the rain tapping out ti...

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes I am a, two hours of pushin' broom buys a Eight by ten four-bit room I'm a man of means by no means, cause I'm a king of the road Third boxcar midnig...

[Hidden Track] Though the world is sleeping, my eyes are open. Yet it's me that's dreaming that I'm flying over mountaintops. I am crossing an ocean where at the end I see, I see a beautiful far away land called home. And them stars they sure are pretty, and...

Did you hear the sad news about Harry They wrote in the paper, he died yesterday I've been meaning to stop by and have a word with him But it never did quite work out that way As a kid he was always big and shy The old boys would taunt him, but Harry would ju...

Objects in motion tend to stay that way. You can't waste the whole damn day loving what you need to cast away. Case in point, just yesterday I found a suitcase full of love letters floating down a cool brown river. Unsigned and undelivered, they set my mind to...

Oh where are we going? Oh where have we been? Our hush-a-bye angel, she's safe and tucked in. I drive around town, while you sit and watch the rain. There's what you think with your heart and what I feel with my brain. For those who plant nothing but the seeds...

Things that you know. Places you won't go. Faces where you see traces of yourself. Oooh, life's a big mystery. In the puzzle of history, I see pieces of heaven in photographs of you and me. Over mountains so high, through shadows below, the dreams you wil...

Down at the drugstore where they sell medicine back in the corner stands a plywood Superman. He never saves nobody from nothing. He just leans against the wall looking sad. Me, I go climbing on my broken ladder. Aiming for high places, but I never qui...

I whisper beautiful secrets into The drainpipes at night For the old folks while they're sleeping Something to help them with their dreams. I climb the wall to the cemetery, Lay down on the grave of my father I hear him asking me for forgiveness, So I close my...

Upon awakening I find myself Lying in some woods, And for the longest time I've sat here, Just trying to remember why I feel like I am floating, Why blood is running down my shirt Then my memory returns to me As the pain comes flooding; Into my heart, My baby...

It's not my sun, yes So if it ain't shining when I wake up tomorrow Tomorrow on in! That would be alright with me That would be alright Alright with me, hey, hey This old shoes, yes They might be walking Down on some highway Cause my car has broke down again!...

3 A.M. I'm awakened By a sweet summer rain Distant howling of a passing Southbound coal train Was I dreaming Or was there someone just lying here beside me in this bed? Am I hearing things? Or in the next room Did a long forgotten music box just start playing?...

Well I was shacked up down in the mobile With a girl from New York city She woke me up one night to tell me That we weren't alone. She said she saw the ghost of a woman staring at me I told her not to worry But in the morning when I woke up,She was gone So I...

It was 1967, I was watching a TV show When the glowing screen went blank I looked out of my window I saw 27 crows perched on my antenna In the glass a familiar face appeared A man whose name I don't remember Now mother's milk is dandy When you're a lit...

I have no one to talk too, nothing to see Got nowhere to walk to, nothing to be Saturday's rain falling down on me Sunday's refrain, will lost in the streams Streams of rain, knocking down days or walls It's all the same Nothing to see, except days Some words...

she said she wasn´t sorry she told me not to worry she said, oh yeah i want to be your lover boy, you´re like no other she said, oh yeah we´ve got love and love is all we need to start take it to my heart hey hey, take me away take it to my heart hey hey,...

I say "God, if you ain't smiling on me, then you ain't no friend of mine." It's late at night and this motel room's drunk, I been listening to the lonesome wind crying. My best friend once said, "Jim, what you cling to, that's the thing that you had best forge...

If you like me won’t you stay a little while? We could count the falling stars above our heads. Will you walk with me another lonesome mile? And if you should hear a distant voice calling from the bottom of the well... Well, it’s just me---I fell in years ag...

Find the list Now do as I say Pack your belongings and just disappear When you get where you're going try to give me a go Take care *of your troubles* not to stumble and fall Should the highway rise up to swallow you whole, remember: nobody never got nowhere...

Long about an hour before sunrise she drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river wrapped in a red velvet curtain stolen from the movie theater where she works. Quiet as a whisper, under the stanchions of a washed-out bridge she cuts him loose...and w...

I'll never fit in, so why should I try? How'm I ever gonna pass for a normal guy? I can't wear no suit and tie. Gotta let my freak flag fly. If I walk the straight and narrow one more day, I think I'll die. Because I wanna live in a turquoise house with turq...

These rocks will never know The joy of being consumed by anything Worth remembering Yeah, yeah, yeah When in our hearts we go Spelunking into caverns of dark reckoning What gives us causes a scene Yeah, yeah, yeah About all them things that rocks could never...

Damn them dogs is really smart Think I'd better lose the snowshoes Thought the skid marks on the road'd throw them off, But damn them dogs is smart And on Devil's Island of the heart, You can't afford to make a big mistake You gotta plan your jail break carefu...

Your world is in flames there ain't even a name For the feelings you feel as you watch it all burn. There's a girl in the distance, she's calling your name, But the name that she's calling is not your name, she calls: The word-mule! the word-mule! the wor...

Nothing's prettier than a pretty girl digging a heart shaped hole in the ground. Hear that sound? That's the fortress 'round your heart crumbling down. Feeling like...like you kinda...like the feeling...feel like falling...head over heels...into the hole...tha...