I'm a thousand miles from nowhere Time don't matter to me 'Cause I'm a thousand miles from nowhere And there's no place I want to be I got heartaches
I couldn't change your heart I couldn't change your mind So I just had to learn to live with This empty life you left behind You didn't try to hear You
Little sister don't you, little sister don't you Little sister don't you kiss me once or twice Tell me that it's nice and then you ran in your house Oh
Inside the pocket of a clown Is a sad place to hang around Just watching smiles turn into frowns Inside the pocket of a clown Inside the heartache of
The clock in your pocket keeps tickin' But that don't get prayed to by me I threw away all I was given Just so that I could be free I've got no future
I've been waiting here in Louisville Lots of time to kill, waiting here for you I've had to get a job in Louisville 'Cause my hotel bill is six weeks
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere Time don't matter to me 'Cause I'm a thousand miles from nowhere And there's no place I wanna be I've got heartaches
When I was a boy my family would travel Inta' Western Kentucky where my parents were born To a lost little town there that's often remembered So many
The only time I feel the pain Is in the sunshine or the rain And I don't feel no hurt at all Unless you count when teardrops fall I tell the truth except
Don't call my name out your window, as I'm leavin' 'Cause I won't even turn my head And don't send your kin folk to give me no dang talkin' 'Cause I'll
I got out walkin' after midnight Out in the moonlight just like we used to do I'm always walkin' after midnight Searchin' for you I walk for miles along
To the Lord's defenders at the last surrender Granted passage to the other side Where he shall cherish in his name those who've perished And embrace with
We've all got wheels to take ourselves away We've got telephones to say what we can't say We all got higher and higher every day Come on wheels take this
Waiting for your world to turn around is less likely to be found As I watch it moving past Than any other hope that I might hold that someday you might
Chorus: Bury me along the big sandy Down in the blue gray mountains Rest my soul in those hills of coal Until this old earth does tremble Now don't
Hey baby what do you know about how it feels Honey what do you know about if that's real Baby what do you know about the whole deal And what'd you know
They're gonna put me in the movies They're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely And all I?ve gotta do is
If you ever get south of Cincinnati, down where the dogwood trees grow If you ever get south of the Mason Dixon, to the home you left so long ago If you
