Brand New Pair of Jeans

You and I got married

When we were just nineteen

That it wouldn't last the summer

Someone should have seen

When I walked out that mornin'

In my jacket, jeans, and boots

That's all that I brought with me

The rest I left with you

The easel and the canvas

The oils and the brush

I've learned to live without them now

I left in such a rush

Maybe I was crazy, or maybe I was blind

But I no longer felt like paintin'

I just felt like wastin' time

You'd never know it from lookin' in my eyes

But it wasn't easy just to leave it all behind

Where I'm goin', I don't really know

What I'm lookin' for I may never find

I headed for Miami, wound up in New Orleans

In the same pair of boots and the same faded jeans

Got a job workin' construction

So I could still afford to drink

Like the less time I spent sober, the less I had to think

You'd never know it from lookin' in my eyes

But it wasn't easy just to leave it all behind

Where I'm goin', I don't really know

What I'm lookin' for I may never find

I hung around just long enough

To get bored with New Orleans

Set out for the west coast

In a brand-new pair of jeans