A Ghost To Most
Drive-By Truckers

I guess I'll never grow a sideburn
It's a shame with all I've got to go between
I hope somebody's cause takes soon
It's getting hard to find a place a root can sink

Mama said a lot of things
And 'Be thankful' was the one she never minded saying twice
Thanks to her I can think clear enough
To be thankful that she died before tonight

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without the rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide

Saving everybody takes a man on a mission
With a swagger that can set the world at ease
Some believe it's God's own hand on the trigger
And the other dumping water in the streets

Talking tough's easy when it's other people's evil
And you're judging what they do and don't believe
Seems to me you'd have to have a hole in your own
To point a finger at somebody else's sheet

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without the rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide

I don't know how much good it does a man
To keep on telling him how good it is he's free
Free to wash his ghost down the drain
Free for them to tell him there's no such a thing

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without the rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide


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  (It's Gonna Be)/I Told You So   (Somebody's Got To) Give Pretty Soon   14-Feb   18 Wheels of Love   3 Dimes Down   72 (This Highway's Mean)   A Blessing And A Curse   A World Of Hurt   After The Scene Dies   Aftermath USA   Angels And Fuselage   Assholes   Birmingham   Birthday Boy   Bob   Box of Spiders   Bulldozers and Dirt   Buttholeville   Careless   Carl Perkins' Cadillac   Carl Perkins' Cadillac   Cartoon Gold   Cassie's Brother   Check Out Time In Vegas   Cottonseed   Daddy Learned To Fly   Daddy Needs A Drink   Daddy's Cup   Daddy's Little Pumpkin   Dancin' Ricky   Danko / Manuel   Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn   Daylight   Days of Graduation   Dead, Drunk, and Naked   Decoration Day   Demonic Possession   Do It Yourself   Drag The Lake Charlie   Drive-By Truckers A World of Hurt   Easy On Yourself   Everybody Needs Love   Eyes Like Glue   Filthy and Fried   First Air of Autum   First Air of Autumn   George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues   Get Downtown   Go-Go Boots   Goddamn Lonely Love   Goodbye   Goode's Field Road   Goode's Field Road (Alternate Version)   Goode’s Field Road   Grand Canyon   Grandpa Rock City   Gravity's Gone   Gravity's Gone (Remix)   Gravity's Gone   Gravity’s Gone   Greenville to Baton Rouge   Guitar Man Upstairs   Hanging On   Hearing Jimmy Loud   Heathens   Hell No, I Ain't Happy   Hell No, I Ain’t Happy   Home Field Advantage   I Do Believe   I'm Sorry Huston   Late for Church   Let There Be Rock   Life in the Factory   Like A Rolling Stone   Lisa's Birthday   Little Bonnie   Little Pony & The Great Big Horse   Little Pony and the Great Big Horse   Loaded Gun in the Closet   Lookout Mountain   Love Like This   Made Up English Oceans   Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)   Margo and Harold   Marry Me   Mercy Buckets   Monument Valley   Moved   Mrs. Claus' Kimono   Mrs. Dubose   My Sweet Annette   Natural Light   Natural Light (Alternative First Take Recording)   Never Gonna Change   Nine Bullets   One of These Days   Opening Act   Outfit   Panties In Your Purse   Pauline Hawkins   Perfect Timing   Plastic Flowers On The Highway   Play It All Night Long   Primer Coat   Pulaski   Purgatory Line   Puttin' People On the Moon   Putting People On the Moon   Ray's Automatic Weapon   Rebels   Road Cases   Ronnie and Neil   Sandwiches for the Road   Santa Fe   Self Destructive Zones   Shit Shots Count   Shut Up and Get on the Plane   Sink Hole   Sounds Better in the Song   Space City   Steve Mcqueen   Sun Don't Shine   Surrender Under Protest   Than Man I Shot   The Boys From Alabama   The Buford Stick   The Company I Keep   The Day John Henry Died   The Deeper In   The Fireplace Poker   The Flying Wallendas   The Fourth Night Of My Drinking   The Home Front   The Living Bubba   The Man I Shot   The Monument Valley   The Night G.G. Allin Came To Town   The Opening Act   The Part of Him   The President's Penis Is Missing   The Purgatory Line   The Righteous Path   The Sands of Iwo Jima   The Southern Thing   The Thanksgiving Filter   The Three Great Alabama Icons   The Tough Sell   The Weakest Man   The Wig He Made Her Wear   This Fucking Job   Three Dimes Down   Til He's Dead or Rising   Till He’s Dead or Rises   Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)   Tornadoes   Trying to Be The Boss   Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife   Uncle Frank   Uncle Frank (Alternate Version)   Uncle Frank [Alternate Take]   Used To Be A Cop   Wallace   Wednesday   What It Means   When He's Gone   When He’s Gone   When the Pin Hits the Shell   When The Well Runs Dry   When Walter Went Crazy   Where the Devil Don't Stay   Where the Devil Don’t Stay   Where's Eddie   Why Henry Drinks   Wife Beater   Women Without Whiskey   You And Your Crystal Meth   You Got Another   Your Daddy Hates Me   Zip City   Zoloft

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