Castles in the Sand
David Allan Coe

Yeah, I've seen you face in magazines
Yeah I've read all of those press room queens descriptions
I can't believe the lies they tell
But truth is not the way to sell subscriptions

After all the smoke had cleared away
Did not take me long to find out what you had to say
This is just a game
And I'm glad i finally learned to play
By the rules
Do they think we're fools

They put you down behind my back
Distorting all the honest facts about you
While searching through your lyric sheets
For secret meanings too discreet to doubt you

Isn't it a shame they never heard
They finally wrote you off as really being too absurd
While all the time you sacrificed your rhymes
To find a word they could not see
Hidden in your melodies

Like a tree that could bend with the wind
Like a river that flows around the bend
Like a dream
Like a song
They all cross right or wrong
They just keep on building castles in the sand

Then just like you they told me lies
And offered corporate alibis to change me
My songs were taken through the mill
While managers were hired to rearrange me

They led me to the slaughter like a lamb
I just kept pretending that I did not give a damn
Now this situations gotten too far out of hand
To be real
I don't wanna make a deal

Parasites reach for your heart
Each one must try do their part to drain you
You give them your best autograph
On pictures knowing well they're gonna frame you

Don't you know it happens every time
Little did they know I could read between the line
You told them times were changing
But they did not heed the signs
I'm not that green
Bobby do you know what I mean

I'm Like a tree that can bend with the wind
I'm like a river that flows around the bend
I'm like a dream
Like a song
That I've crossed right or wrong
And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand

They drove me in their limousines
My pockets bursting at the seems with money
They said i could take your place
By putting makeup on my face like honey

Now don't you know it chilled me to the bone
They even had the nerve to ask me if i could re-write like a rolling stone
Thats when I told they the should leave my ass alone
Its plan to see
I just wanted to be free

Like a tree that can bend with the wind
Like a river that flows around the bend
Like a dream
Like a song
That I cross right or wrong
And I'll just keep on building castles in the sand

And every song i write my friend
I play it with my band


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  Bad Impressions   Houston, Dallas, San Antone   "Willie, Waylon And Me"   \u00b459 Cadillac \u00b4 57 Chevy   3 Biggest Lies In The World   33rd Of August   59 Cadillac, 57 Chevrolet   A Sad Country Song   A Satisfied Mind   A Satisfied Mind (Hayes & Rhodes)   A Sense of Humor   ´59 Cadillac ´ 57 Chevy   Ain't It Funny Love Can Do Ya   Ain't It Funny The Way Love Can Do Ya   Ain't Worth the Powder   Ain't It Funny The Way Love Can Do Ya   Ain't Worth The Powder   Another Pretty Country Song   As Far As This Feeling Will Take Us   Atlanta Song   Back to Atlanta   Blue Grass Morning   Bossier City   Bright Morning Light   Call Me the Breeze   Canteen Of Water   Cheap Thrills   Child of God   Cocaine Carolina   Crazy Mary   Cum Stains on the Pillow   D-R-U-N-K   Daddy Was A God Fearin' Man   Daddy Was A God Fearin' Man   Dakota (the Dancing Bear) (part Ii)   Dakota The Dancing Bear   Dakota the Dancing Bear, Pt. 2   David Alan Coe   Dear Penis   Desparados Waiting for a Train   Desperados Waiting For A Train   Desperados Waiting For The Train   Devil Went To Jamaica   Divers Do It Deeper   Don't Be a Stranger   Don't Bite the Dick   Even After Forever   Face To Face   Fairytale Morning   Fall in Love With You   Family Album   Family Reunion   Fish Aren't Biting Today   Fish Aren't Biting Today   Follow Me   For Lovers Only   For Lovers Only (IV)   For Lovers Only (part Iii)   For Lovers Only, Part III (With John McEuen)   For Your Precious Love   Frau Lein   Fraulein   Free Born Rambling Man   Free My Mind   Fu*k Aneta Briant   Fuckin in the Butt   Fuzzy Was an Outlaw   Fuzzy Was An Outlaw (David Allen Coe)   Get A Little Dirt On   Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands   Give My Love to Rose   Give My Love To Rose (Johnny Cash)   Gone (Like)   Got You on My Mind   Got You On My Mind (Joe Thomas & Howard Biggs)   Gotta Serve Somebody   Gotta Serve Somebody (With Lacy J. Dalton)   Great Nashville Railroad Desister   Greener Than the Grass We Laid on   Guilty Footsteps   Hank Williams Junior   Hank Williams Junior Junior   Hank Williams Junior-Junior   He's Taking It Hard She's Taking It Easy   He's Taking It Hard She's Taking It Easy   Headed for the Country   Heads or Tails   Heavenly Father Holy Mother   Heavenly Father, Holy Mother   Hey Gypsy   Honey Don't   Honey Don't   House We've Been Calling Home   House We've Been Calling Home   Houston Dallas Or San Antone   Human Emotions   I Can't Let You Be a Memory   I Could Never Give You Up (for Someone Else)   I Love Robbin' Banks   I Still Sing the Old Songs   I'll Always Be a Fool for You   I'm Gonna Hurt Her On The Radio   I've Given Bout All I Can Take   I've Got Something to Say   I've Got To Have You   I'll Always Be A Fool For You   I'm Gonna Hurt Her On The Radio   I've Given Bout All I Can Take   I've Got Something To Say   I've Got To Have You   If I Could Climb The Walls Of This Bottle   If I Knew   If That Ain't Country   If That Ain't Country - Part 2   If That Ain't Country   If That Ain't Country - Part 2   If This Is Just a Game   If You Ever Think Of Me At All   If You'll Hold the Ladder   If You'll Hold The Ladder (I'll Climb To The Top)   If You'll Hold The Ladder   It's Great to Be Single Again   It's Great To Be Single Again   Jack Daniel's, If You Please   Jack Daniels If You Please   Jimmy Buffett   Jody Like a Melody   Juanita   Just Divorced   Just In Time (To Watch Love Die)   Just To Prove My Love For You   Just To Prove My Love To You   Laid Back and Wasted   Lately I've Been Thinking Too Much Lately   Lately I've Been Thinking Too Much Lately   Linda Lovelace   Little Orphan Annie   Little Suzzie Shallow Throat   Living on the Run   London Homesick Blues   Loneliness in Ruby's Eyes   Loneliness In Ruby's Eyes   Long Haired Red Neck   Long Haired Redneck   Longhaired Redneck   Looking in the Mirror   Lost   Love Is a Never Ending War   Love Is Just a Porpoise   Love Is Just A Porpoise (Playing In The Tropical S...   Love's Cheatin' Line, (She Finally Crossed Over)   Love's Cheatin' Line, (She Finally Cross...   Loves Cheatin Line   Lovin' You Comes So Natural   Loving Her (Will Make You Lose Your Mind)   Loving You Comes So Natural   Lyin' Comes So Easy to Your Lips   Maria Is A Mystery   Marijuanaville   Mary Magdeline   Mary Magdeline (David Allen Coe)   Masterbation Blues   Meanwhile Back in Memphis   Merle and Me   Million Dollar Memories   Missin' the Kid   Mississippi River Queen   Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile   Mona Lisa's Lost Her Smile   Need a Little Time Off for Bad Behavior   Nigger Fucker   Nigger Hating Me   Niggerhatin' Me   Nothin Sacred   Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat   Now's the Time   Now's The Time   Old Grey Goose Is Dead   Old Man Tell Me   On My Feet Again   One More Time   Panheads Forever   Pick Em, Lick Em, Stick Em   Pick Em, Lick Em' Stick Em   Pick Em, Lick Em' Stick Em   Piece of Wood and Steel   Play Me A Sad Song   Please Come To Boston   Pledging My Love   Punkin Center Barn Dance   Purple Heart   Pussy Whipped Again   Rails   Revenge   Ride 'em Cowboy   Ride 'em Cowboy   Ride Me Down Easy   River   Rock And Roll Holiday   Rollin With the Punches   Rollin' With The Punches   Rose Knows   Rough Rider   Sad Country Song   San Francisco Mabel Joy   Sense Of Humor   Seven Mile Bridge   Shackles and Chains   She Used to Love Me a Lot   Shine It on   Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay   Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay   Six Days On The Road   Snowblind Friend   Someplace To Come When It Rains   Son of a Rebel Son   Son Of The South   Southern Man   Southern Star   Spotlight   Stand By Your Man   Storms Never Last   Sudden Death   Suicide   Sweet Angeline   Sweet Vibrations (Some Folks Call It Love)   Take It Easy Rider   Take This Job and Shove It   Take This Job And Shove It Too   Take Time To Know Her   Tanya Montana   Tennessee Whiskey   Texas Lullaby   That Old Time Feeling   That Old Time Feeling (Guy Clark)   The 33rd of August   The Devil Went Down To Jamaica   The Fish Aren't Bitin' Today   The Great Nashville Railroad Disaster   The Old Grey Goose Is Dead   The Punkin Center Barn Dance   The Purple Heart   The Ride   The Ride (1983)   The Rodeo Song   These Days (Jackson Browne)   Thief In My Bedroom   This Bottle   This Bottle (In My Hand)   Three Time Loser   Tomorrow Is Another Day   Under Rachel's Wings   Under Rachel's Wings   We Got a Bad Thing Goin'   We Got A Bad Thing Goin'   West Virginia Man   What Can I Do   What Made You Change Your Mind   When She's Got Me   When She's Got Me (Where She Wants Me)   When She's Got Me   When She's Got Me (Where She Wants Me)   Whips and Things   Whiskey And Woman   Whiskey And Women   Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)   White Line Fever   Whole Lot Of Lonesome   Why Me   Why Me (Kris Kristofferson)   Why You Been Gone So Long   Why You Been Gone So Long (Mickey Newbury)   Will you remember me?   Willie Waylon And Me   Willie Waylon And Me (reprise)   Would Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)   Would They Love Me Down in Shreveport   Would You Be My Lady   Would You Lay with Me   Would You Lay With Me (in A Field Of Stone)   X's and O's (Kisses and Hugs)   X's And O's (Kisses And Hugs)   You Can Count On Me   You Never Called Me By My Name   You Never Even Call Me by My Name   You Never Even Called Me by My Name   You Never Even Called Me By My Name (1975)   You'll Always Live Inside Of Me   You'll Always Live Inside Of Me   Young Dallas Cowboy

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