Jailbird

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 mineThis small town crowd should've dragged you down
Can't leave your past behind
Wipers in the rain tap out time
Coming up on a new state lineI wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can findBrick up the well of tears and disappear
Leave myself behind
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mindMidnight, take a short cut
Through the downtown cemetery
No stepping on graves
Check the statue of the Virgin MaryShe's catching moonlight in the shadows
Revealing spider webs
Can you see the black widow
Hung between our lady's hands?I wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can findBrick up the well of tears and disappear
Leave myself behind
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mindNow used to be when I was young
I was so hungry for oblivion
My thoughts would linger
Like fingers in a deadly webBut in time as sorrow showed it's face
In kind I learned to ache for grace
To work and pray to one day
Be delivered whole, alive and freeI wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can findBrick up the well of tears and disappear
Leave myself behind
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind