Fifth of May

Mama's grippin' on her hip on the fifth of May

In a photo Daddy took on a humid day

In a town that's anyone's guess

Way out in Western Kentucky

She's broken-hearted as he's ridin' away

On a motorbike out to East LA

To find a white line, it's such a fine line

Between broken and lucky

Gettin' high's easy, gettin' drunk's fine

It's the gettin' by that'll get a soul down

So if you need me, know that I'm bleedin'

Somewhere alone in some coastal town

Some coastal town

And I can feel when your body ain't in this bed

I can still hear you laughin' last spring in my head

Now it's April and I hate you and I'm headin' home

The little notes that you left for me

In coat pockets and cabinetry

Are in a shoebox from when we once talked

Back when I felt free

Gettin' high's easy, gettin' drunk's fine

It's the gettin' by that'll get a soul down

So if you need me, know that I'm bleedin'

Somewhere alone in some coastal town

Some coastal town

Mama's grippin' on her hip on the fifth of May

In a photo Daddy took on a humid day

In a town that's anyone's guess

Way out in Western Kentucky

Gettin' high's easy, gettin' drunk's fine

It's the gettin' by that'll get a soul down

So if you need me, know that I'm bleedin'

Somewhere alone in some coastal town

In some coastal town