1. Dead In The Water  

I run out of gas on the Huey Long Bridge  
And the moon was drownin in the mud  
Don’t think about walkin back to town  
Don’t think about jumpin it’s too far down  

Dead in the water  
Hidin in a whisper tree  
Preacher on the corner  
Shoutin to an empty street  

Mama been flyin  
Drinkin that benzedrine  
She’s scrubbin the floor with a toothbrush  
But she just can’t get it clean  

Dead in the water  
Hidin in a whisper tree  
Man on the corner  
Shoutin to an empty street  

Hey … hey  

Hidin in the saw grass  
Drinkin from a shot glass  
While the black wind howls  
While the police scowl  

Starin at the night sky  
While you’re makin up a good lie  
When the lights come on you got to be strong  
Better think of something sweet  
‘Fore they put you in the back seat  

Dead in the water  

2. Devil Music  

Wolf cried all the way to Memphis  
‘Cause his mama turned him  
Turned him away  

Don’t you know he searched her out  
After he was doing good  
Little town in Mississippi  
He was drivin a big Pontiac  
You know he ran up to her  
You know he called her by name  
Said, “Mama, can I help you out? I’m doin good”  
Tried to slip her some money  
But she turned him away-turned him away  
“Devil get away from me”  
Sanctified …  

Chorus:  
Mama, I can’t stop playin that devil music  
Devil music got in my soul  

I’m satisfied that everybody’s wrong sometime  
I’m satisfied that nobody knows for sure  
And you can’t change a sanctified mind  
But the need of a mother’s love can’t be denied  

Chorus  

Older than your Bible  
Mean as it needs to be  
Stronger than a hurricane  
Deep as the Mississippi  
Keep you moanin in the midnight hour  
Keep you goin when you want to give up  
Make you laugh at the twists and turns  
Of a life gone wrong  
At the cruel world spinning  
At the wrong crowd winning  
Call it what you want to …  
Sanctified  

Chorus  

Keep you workin in the fields  
Keep you livin through the hurricane  
Big man cryin  
All the way to Memphis  
Cry, cry, cry  
Hubert said they couldn’t settle him down  
Cry, cry, cry  

4. Bottom Of The Ocean  

I got the submarine  
Parked down on Frenchman Street  
I’m gonna take it down  
To the bottom of the ocean  
I know it’s time to go  
Little cracks they start to show  
You’re gonna leave me high and dry  

Chorus:  
I’ve been crying  
And it didn’t do me no good  
I’ve been wearin out  
The streets of my neighborhood  
Now I’m walkin  
On the bottom of the ocean  

I try to play your game  
Instructions they never came  
No use in tryin to win your love  
Why do you treat me bad  
And trash all the things we had  
All I want to do is make you mine  

Chorus  

I been up here too long  
Tryin the good life on  
Keepin my voices to myself  
All of this randomness  
Can’t find a place to rest  
Only feel good when I’m going down  

Chorus  

5. Angel Child  

Spider web hangin in the arms of my chair  
Dust on the counter top  
Get me away from here  
Someday I’m gonna get myself fixed up  
Take you on a trip down to Shellman Bluff  
Oh baby, you’re my angel child  

It’s so quiet I hear my ‘frigerator running  
I don’t know which way my next breath’s coming  
Can’t let you see me when I look like this  
Come back tomorrow night and give us a kiss  
Oh baby, you’re my angel child  

Baby, when the wind is howling  
And the dogs are growlin at my door  
I don’t pay them any mind  
Even when the sun’s not shining  
You know you are my silver lining  

Crank up your motor, let the tailpipe drag  
Standin on the porch with your clothes in a grocery bag  
Who am I to tell you that you can’t find love  
Lookin so pretty with your mind made up  
Oh baby, you’re my angel child  

6. Pride In Place   

I got a bad feeling that I’ll never be satisfied   
There’ll always be something   
Try to bring me down inside   
Ain’t no words for the way I feel   
Lookin at your photograph   
You know I’ve got to walk away   
Just to keep my pride in place   

Chorus:   
Oh-oh,I got to keep my pride in place   
Oh-oh,nobody take my pride away   

There’s nothing to see here   
‘Cept the wreckage of a poor man’s dream   
Ain’t nothin but trouble   
Tryin to fit in someone else’s scheme   
I got no words for the way I feel   
Standin in the knee high grass   
I swear I’m ‘bout to blow away   
Watchin the shiny cars go screamin past   

Chorus   

When you want to love somebody   
With all your damaged soul   
You don’t want to know about   
The fire that started that you can’t control   

Chorus   

7. Reptile Pilot   

Animals-with the craving to be angels   
Angels, but we can’t get past   
Bein animals-with dreams of flyin   
I got a reptile pilot in my aeroplane   

Different but we’re all the same   
Rise up and fall down again   
People-I want to keep on flyin   
I got a reptile pilot in my aeroplane   

You know I’m smart as a whip-I got my degree   
Dumb as a brick-I can’t really see   
What’s right here in front of me   
Sharp as a tack-I’m a bootstrap millionaire   
Blind as a bat in the sun and I don’t even care   

My doctor told me you’re above my raisin’   
But you know that I’ve always been crazy ‘bout you   
I got juices flowin and genes that won’t listen   
I got children all over the place   
That say they don’t even miss me   

And I want to act right and people to call me “Mister”   
But I got two voices and they always whisper to me   
One says, “Stop sign” and one says, “Go through it”   
I know you’re trouble   
But I just want to do it anyway …   

8. Whiskey Headed Woman   

I can’t do nothin with you   
You won’t do right   
Slip out every evening   
Stay gone all night   

You’re a whiskey headed woman   
I believe you want to stay drunk all the time   
Whiskey headed woman   
I’m about to lose my feeble mind   

I can’t use it   
I can’t use it   
(Don’t give it to me)   

I used to hear the birds in the morning   
Now I got the earplugs in   
I feel the rays of sunlight   
Crawlin underneath my skin   

You’re a whiskey headed woman   
Got me broke into a sweat   
You’re a whiskey headed woman   
I’m gon’ catch up with you yet   

I can’t use it   
Shirt around my head   
I can’t use it   
Shoulda stayed in bed   

Whiskey headed woman   
I believe you want to stay high all the time   

9. Strong Love   

I got my feet on the rock   
I got my hand raised up   
I got my enemies in my head   
But I keep ‘em tied down y’all   

I been up all evening   
And I got it figured out   
I don’t need no sleeping   
‘Cause I’m livin on strong love   

Livin on strong love   
Got no one to blame   
Even the heavens above   
I’m an independent man   
And I’m free to love   

I been lookin for you baby   
Yeah, lookin high and low   
Come on out here and take my hand   
And we’ll be livin on strong love   
Livin on strong love   

Got no bootstraps to be pullin on   
Got no coattails to be hangin on   
But I got the combination baby   
To unlock every door   

Come over to my house   
Why don’t you sit right down   
Don’t have to worry about a thing   
‘Cause we’ll be livin on strong love   
Livin on strong love   

10. Ride   

There’s a window in my bedroom   
Where the wind sneaks through   

There’s a rock where my pillow used to be   
There’s a crack in my dreams   
Where the truth slips through   
And I’m on my way to freedom now   

Ride, ride, ride   
They call my bus the freedom line   
Free, free, free   
I won’t be turnin back this time   

This trouble in your home   
It’s built into the bricks   
And there’s nothing you can do to change it   
And you can’t tell yourself the same old lies   
They just won’t stand up in the light of day   

Ride, ride, ride   
They call your bus the freedom line   
Free, free, free   
You won’t be turnin back this time   

Light a candle on the altar before you go   
Say a prayer for the ones you leave behind   
I put a light in my window   
And it’s gonna burn for us too   
Now we got to step up and ride   

Ride, ride, ride   
They call our bus the freedom line   
Free, free, free   
We won’t be turnin back this time   

11. Thing For You   

You’re a bad girl, baby   
But you look so fine   
You’re in and out of trouble   
But you’re always on my mind   

I’m over my head and I know it   
But what can I do   
Ain’t no way around it baby   
I got a thing for you   

I … I got a thing for you   

All your friends and your relations   
Won’t give me the time of day   
When I try to catch your eye   
You just walk away   

All the medicine in the world   
Won’t keep me from feelin blue … no, no   
Even my doctor told me   
I got a thing for you   

I … I got a thing for you   

Leanin out the window   
Sure hope I don’t fall   
It’s a dangerous situation   
That don’t bother me at all   

I look down into the street   
And I see you standing there   
I’m hallucinatin baby   
But I just don’t seem to care   

Oh, I … I got a thing for you   

12. Missing Link   

I barrel thru the ragged sky   
One dark cloud at a time   
I’m comin down from the heavens baby   
Just to bring you some sunshine   

Chorus:   
I am the missing link   
In your winding chain   
We got a soul connection   
When you call my name   

Sometime I come and go so fast   
I don’t leave no fingerprints   
This time I’m gonna slow it down for you baby   
Just to keep you in suspense   

Chorus   

Don’t try to understand it   
‘Cause it don’t make no sense   
I got a strong attraction to you baby   
And you don’t have no defense   

Chorus