Mostly Sober

I'm mostly sober these days, I don't know what you heard I only drink onstage, I only smoke to burn Away the frivilous things, to ride the syllable swings, to fight the urge to go swimmin in the criminal springs I'm mostly happy these days, don't know if you read Between the lines I wrote, and the lines I dread To cross over it's a long way back, when I'm sunk in the saddle and I'm circlin the cul de sac I mostly understand why you couldn't stay Why the best of you, you went and took away Girl those eyes they be shinin like a cigarette, you light 'em up I breathe 'em in till there's nothin left So don't believe the hype or the flowing hyperbole Mighta done the crime, but I never did the perjury Wait for the dust cloud to settle on the rhetoric Even if ya rush now, you'll never get ahead of it I tip my cup, I tip it on over No I ain't got luck, I'm just a three leaf clover I keep my feet on the narrow and the straight And I ain't too stoned to say I'm mostly sober these days I'm mostly sober these days, don't know what you seen I only drink to sleep, I only sleep to dream Away the cries and the calls I been listenin', put a hole in the walls I'm imprisoned in I'm mostly lonely these days, don't know where you went Who you call your friends, How your time gets spent My last on a ticket back home, A one way trip down an east bound road I'm mostly crazy these days, when I think of you While the earth it shakes, girl your aim stays true Bullseye, honey right down the center of, straight shot through the heart of a sinners love