and pills and
Nashville radio,
life will never be the same
Chills and spills from
Maine to
Mexico, riding on my funeral train
In every town there's the same tribulation,
every state I wake up in
The night before was a dim recollection
of powders and bottles and sin
There's a bad little stranger heading out the door,
just about half my age
Blood on the walls, glass on the floor,
I don't think I even made it on stage
I said,
Doctor,
Doctor, sign my description
I'm in trouble again
Ever since I was a tiny little baby,
I couldn't get rid of the pain
I shake my hips but I walk like a cripple
and my body is getting too thin
I can count every one of my bones in the mirror,
poking through my cold white skin
There's a shining star on
the dressing room door
But I'll be out in the back of my car
Cos I don't know a soul I can trust
With the money or to tune
up my guitar
Drinking pills on
Nashville radio
Life will never be the same
Chills and spills from
Maine to
Mexico
Riding on my funeral train
I can't sleep without the
engine humming
And the wheels rolling night and day
Well I can't sleep without the
Nashville radio
Slipping through my chemical haze
Playin' some song that I
don't remember
With the
DJ callin' my name
If they play my songs on the
Nashville radio
Life will never be the same
I said,
Doctor,
Doctor, sign my description I'm
in trouble again
Ever since I was a tiny little baby I
couldn't get rid of the pain
Ever since I was a tiny little baby I
couldn't get to sleep at night
Been listenin' to that
Nashville radio
Hours before daylight
They threw me off, they cut my throat off
Cos I couldn't behave
I never knew how many friends I had
Till I was lying in a cold damp grave
I gave my life to country music
I took my pills and lost
Now they don't play my
songs on the radio
It's like I never was
I'm a sweaty cop in an
Alabama lockup
Looked at me and he laughed
He'd heard my songs on the
Nashville
Radio
He asked me for my autograph
He said,
Doctor,
Doctor
Sign my prescription
I'm in trouble again
Ever since I was a tiny little baby
I couldn't get rid of the pain
Drink and pills and
Nashville
Radio
Life will never be the same
Chills and spills from
Maine to
Mexico
Riding on my funeral train
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