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live oak - jason isbell lyrics

there’s a man who walks beside me
it is who i used to be
and i wonder if she sees him
and confuses him with me
and i wonder who she’s pinin’ for
on nights i’m not around
could it be the man who did the things
i’m living now?
i was rougher than a timber
shippin’ out of fond du lac
when i headed south at 17
ol’ sheriff on my back
i never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze
so i found another victim every couple days
but the night i fell in love with her
i made my weakness known
through the fires and the farmers diggin’ dusty fields alone
the jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men
let me know what kind of country i was sleeping in
well you couldn’t stay a loner
on the plains before the war
my neighbors had been slightin’ me
i had to ask what for
rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
soon she’d heard about the boys i used to hang around
we’d robbed a great lakes freighter,
killed a couple men or more
and i told her her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword
all the things that she’d suspected
i’d expected her to fear
was the truth that drew her to me when i landed here
there’s a man who walks beside me
he is who i used to be
and i wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
and i wonder who she’s pinin’ for
on nights i’m not around
could it be the man who did the things
i’m living down?
well i carved a cross from live oak
and a box from shortleaf pine
buried her so deep
she touched the water table line
i picked up what i needed
and i headed south again
to myself i wondered
would i find another friend
there’s a man who walks beside her,
it is who i used to be
and i wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me.

- jason isbell lyrics

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