There was a mountain on the table of bills that needed paid Dishes in the kitchen sink like dreams that never fade

A wild imagination of convicts in the yard

Never enough time to make ends meet

So they put it on a credit card, don’t we all?

You may not know just where you came from, but once upon a time

There was a carpenter, a bartender, a broken fishing line

Just south of Royal Teeth in the town that I came from

There were architects and astronauts

But the only one she loved was a prison guard

And that’s the only time I ever saw true love

And Erica’s a girl I liked in Georgia

Alone and kept me warm in Eugene

I guess my mother loved too hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What’s fine enough to me is just too hard

For a son of a prison guard

There’s a gate that needed painting, clothes that needed clean They’d say there’s time enough for that when the fun has all been seen

Cause when we’re laying on our death bed, a promise we won’t say

Wish we would have worked more, baby

Instead of loving you that way, no way

And that’s the only time I ever saw true love

Segourney is a girl I met in Brooklyn

Herris got me close in New Orleans

I guess my mother loved too hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What’s fine enough to me is just too hard

For a son of a prison guard

I go wherever you are, whoever you are

I go wherever you are, whoever you are

I go wherever you are, whoever you are

I go wherever you are

Betty is a girl I knew in Charlotte …

left for Sydney yesterday

I guess my mother loved too hard

Set the bar too high to the sky

What’s fine enough to me is just too hard For a son of a prison guard Whoever you are