From the recording Gently Used
Spencer Cullum Jr. on Pedal Steel
Taylor Hollingsworth on Lead Guitar
Tim Dinneen on Drums
There's a beautiful video my friend Rick Berlin made for this song. It can be found on my website or YouTube. Really worth checking out. I wrote this song during COVID. I remember they were letting out non-violent offenders out of jail and I was trying to imagine how many of those people must have had nowhere to go, but that nowhere beat jail. The song is about a guy going to dive bars searching for a woman that would temporarily tolerate him.
Lyrics
Spent two years living down in the hole Two more years and then I caught parole And I don’t know exactly who I’ll be
Did my time and then they set me free
Did my time and then they set me free.
When you’re young you don’t think about doing time When you’re old you just want to rewind I wish I could change things all around
Grabbed the sky but then I hit the ground Grabbed the sky but then I hit ground
Me i’m in a bedroom with some woman that i don’t think i’ve ever met before
I’m only here because I got nowhere else I could go I keep trying, I keep trying out all of my love songs Hoping she might pull me through
Hoping she might me through
Like you used to do.
But she never calls me babydoll.
Can’t forget what went on inside that cell Don’t remember when I first felt unwell
And I don’t like living here in shame
Got no one else but myself to blame
Got no one else but myself to blame
Me I’m in the back seat of a car that
I ain’t even drove before
I’m killing time until the world it starts
Slowing down more.
I keep trying out all of my love songs
Hoping she might pull me through
Hoping she might pull me through
Hoping she might pull me through
Hoping she might me through
Like you used to do.
But she never calls me babydoll