You know, I've been writing songs and singing them for nigh on thirty years

I like it, I love it

It started out as a way for me to communicate with other people and myself and the spirits

I don't want to say that it saved my life, but it gave me a life

So I took my show on the road, and I made some good friends that I still have today

And I talked to the girls that smiled at me

But in the end, I realized it's probably best just to let them be

I remember one girl in East Tennessee

Where girls in songs always seem to be

She said, "You should spend the night"

Looking for a hotel

It's important to not

Treat your lifeboat like a yacht

It's important to not

Treat your lifeboat like a yacht

As time wore on, I found myself increasingly turning to my guitar

Instead of other people in times of loneliness and sorrow and confusion

Which was the exact opposite reason of why I got into this in the first place

I started to wonder, is this creativity or pathology?

Am I the Pathol O.G.?

Always one foot on the ladder to Heaven?

Jacob's Ladder, Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder never seemed so tall

Sometimes I wonder, does it ever stop growing at all?

A friend would call, say, "Let's get together at seven"

I'd say, "Sorry, pal, I got one foot on the ladder to Heaven"

Jacob's Ladder, Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder never seemed so tall

Sometimes I wonder, does it ever stop growing at all?

It's important to not

Treat your lifeboat like a yacht

It's important to not

Turn your lifeboat into a yacht

Sometimes you've got

To just get off, just get off and walk

Just get off and walk

You got to lay that ladder down, boy

Lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, lay that ladder down, and get a cross

Lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, lay that ladder down, and get a cross

Yeah, lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, boy, lay that ladder down

Lay that ladder down, lay that ladder down, lay that ladder down

And get a cross

Well, bye