Альбом The Derek Trucks Band

Crash on the levee, mama,
Water's gonna overflow,
Swamp's gonna rise,
No boat's gonna row.
Now, you can train on down
To Williams Point,
You can bust your feet,
You can rock this joint.
But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

Now, don't you try an' move me,
You're just gonna lose.
There's a crash on the levee
And, mama, you've been refused.
Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt,
If you go down in the flood,
It's gonna be your own fault.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

Well, that high tide's risin',
Mama, don't you let me down.
Pack up your suitcase,
Mama, don't you make a sound.
Now, it's king for king,
Queen for queen,
It's gonna be the meanest flood
That anybody's seen.
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow.

I see the people
Starvin' in rags
I see my brother
Lyin' down with a pain
I hear the babies cryin'
To their Father God
Askin' Him why you lettin' me born into this world
Goodbye sorrow's rain
I turned around
And I looked at you my darlin'
If we don't stand together they'll try to make us stand alone

Pre-chorus:
It's strange, it's a wonder but it's true
Every time I look at you
There's something I got to do

Chorus:
Something to make you happy
Come on just let me know
If there's nothing to make you happy
Just say the word and I'll go

I see the battle lines
Forming slowly
I see a silence fall
As the winners and the losers take their stand
I turned around
And I hear you call me darlin'
If we don't spread love through the land
It'll sure enough be dry

Pre-chorus/chorus

My mind is weary and I'm losing sight
If loving you is worth the fight
Sometimes I can see it but I don't want no one else

A lesser woman would have been long gone
You stuck around and showed me when I was wrong
You said "Hey, think about it, ain't no doubt about it"
It's always darker just before the dawn

If you feel the same
Then don't walk away
And we'll start again
Maybe this time

The sun is rising and the air feels clear
It's not quite right but you know we're getting there
Keep on pushing me, just might get it right

Home, home, everybody makes mistakes sometimes
Home, home, some people quit too soon
Home, home, nobody else wants to work it out
Home, home, I'm workin' out just to see you do

If you heal the same
And we don't walk away
It won't feel the same
Same as it used to be

If you feel the same
Then don't walk away
And we'll start again
Maybe this time

I need your sweet inspiration
I need you here on my mind every hour of the day
Without your sweet inspiration
The lonely hours of the night just don't go my way

A man in love needs sweet inspiration
And honey that's all I ask, that's all I ask from you
I gotta have sweet inspiration
You know there's just no telling what a satisfied man might do

If I'm out in the rain baby
In a bad situation
I just reach back in my mind to find
Sweet inspiration

Sweet, oh what a power
And I've got the power every hour in the day
I need your sweet inspiration
To go on livin' to keep on givin' this way

Sweet, sweet inspiration (repeat)

She got high on lovin'
Sorry but I'm passing through
Maybe I got a toothpick
In the bottom of my walkin' shoes
This ain't a town for tear drops
Or tattoo regrets
Nah, yeah

Sneakin' out the back way
In the middle of a starry night
Ain't gonna be remembered
For all the things that I did right
Can't say I need you, can't say I don't
But I won't

Chorus:
And no need to miss me when I'm gone
And no need to miss me when I'm gone
And no need to miss me when I'm gone
And no need to miss me when I'm gone
I wouldn't have very long

Did you drop your baby at the bottom of the blues?
Well, everybody's gotta suffer for all the things you choose
You say, I need you sweetie, but I ain't got the nerve
You can do what you please, but you get what you deserve

Don't know if they told ya, in the year that I come from
They were talkin' 'bout a revolution, talking about Vietnam
Well, you can't quite remember, baby ain't you heard?
You can do what you please, but you get what you deserve

Sooner or later, some kind of savior
Is gonna come down through the roof
Do me a favor, let me off easy when you do

I don't need no doctor, I don't need no truth
I'm goin' to California, baby I'm bulletproof
Just a strange believer, runnin' on the word
You can do what you please, but you get what you deserve

Get what you deserve (repeat)

I know, know what it's like on my own
Things have been wrong but I don't want to be alone again
Sometime, time ain't always on our side
You can let fate pass you by
But if you want me to wait for you

You know
Our love
Is crazy
Crazy is beautiful
And I know
Our love
Is crazy
Nowhere I'd rather be

I won't let our world slip away
If you can be strong for a day
We both know
I've been guilty before
You give
More than you maybe should
While I sit and I hope you could
Take a breath
That's for yourself

We know
Our love
Is crazy
It's what we do it for
I know
Your love
Is crazy
I know where you get it from

Crazy is beautiful (repeat)

You send up the ladder
Down without a rope
Was the only time it mattered
Ow, when I was broke

Then you're my second nature
A-coming over me
And though I might be shakin'
I'm standing on my feet

Goin' 'round in circles
Pickin' out a cue
Travelin' with no memory
Ow, in my shoe

Down don't bother me
If the music say
You can take a picture baby
Time won't care
And you're my second nature
A-coming over me
And though I might be shakin'

Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more
Down don't bother me no more

Was a time when I was younger
I saw things get out of hand
Now I'm older in the story
I realize where I been
It's time I finally said

These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
Don't be late, 'cause the sun won't wait

Takin' time and patience
To turn ourselves around
And baby it's just learning
To live with what we found
I love to hear the sound

When you wait too long
To get it right
Life can pass you by
The second chance
Could be your last
I'm reaching for the light
Yes I am

These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
These days is almost gone
Don't be late, 'cause the sun won't wait

Dancin' backwards
Wound up in another place and time
No way of knowing
Where I was headed to
Baby I was running
Away like always
Sure wasn't ready for something new

How did I wander
Back where I started
I'm so glad
I found you there

Time was wasting away
Like water through my hands
If love was dripping from my slow?
Caught up in the motion
The motion that is every man
Spinning out of control

How did I wander
Back where I started
I'm so glad
I found you there

Seems like I've known you
For a thousand years
Seems like I've watched you grow from a child
It's hard to remember
The first time I saw your face
With the moonlight in your smile

How did I wander
Back where I started
I'm so glad
I found you there

I wanna know how it feels to be kissed
Cold chills running up and down my spine
I wanna know how it feels to be talked to
Until words drive me stoned out my mind

I know how it feels to be lonely
I know how it feels to be blue
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I spend my time loving you

I wanna know how it feels to be needed
I wanna know by the end of the night
I wanna know how it feels to have a girl
Who loves me and treats me just right

I know how it feels to be cheated on
I know how it feels to be blue
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I spend my time loving you

Well I know there's pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
That was such a long time ago
Come and show me how it feels to really be loved
And I won't be blue anymore

Hold on, baby hold on.
Love me, try love me
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know how it feels
To be loved

I am my father's child
Am my father's child
Train that's bound for nowhere
Runnin' free and wild
I am my father's child

The world has passed me by
World has passed me by
See the comin' shadows
Ain't got time to cry
The world has passed me by

I am already free
Am already free
Goin' be like Christmas
When the devil come for me
Am already free