At Home With the Animals
Ryan Adams
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While you were readin' the black bible in the sun I was half drunk out the window of a movin' city bus Wilder than the devil, like a tiger in the brush Louder than an atom bomb that only you could hush Spinnin' like the Earth and Moon, but never really touched Alone, the ways I wanted to be loved You were not enough While your head was bowed and hands prayin' to God I was swingin' from the chandeliers like some endangered animal Somewhere in New Orleans on the run Like I just won the lottery With God-knows-what inside of me Hair a mess and shoelaces undone Of all the ways I wanted you You were not the one While they were teachin' you how Moses split the sea I was in an airplane bathroom doin' speedballs off the sink High as any angel movin' at the speed of sound Someplace over Germany, movin' through the clouds Winkin' back at stewardesses, supplyin' me with ale Big-hooped golden earrings stayin' at the same hotel Of all the ways I wanted you to hold me I could not be held While you were waitin' for the doctor in the chair I was stoned ridin' the cyclone at the Onslow County Fair The stars above us sparkled like they didn't pay the bill Smokes behind the haunted house, chuggin' stolen beers Cotton candy kisses underneath the Ferris wheel Of all the ways you wanted me to feel I could never heal While you were waitin' in the depot for the train I was asleep on stolen cargo in the back of someone's plane Halfway back to Florida from Cuba in the rain Low enough to feel the water from the sprayin' waves Underneath the radar haulin' crates of pure cocaine Hung over and laughin' high above The Everglades Of all the ways I wanted to be tamed I was just insane While you were waitin' in the lobby for your man I was workin' at the circus as a garbage man Rememberin' that winter you were in a long black coat I'm at home with the animals, knife at my own throat You hear the bells of freedom, but the chains all just say "nope" If I was the Titanic, you were pink clouds and blue smoke Risin' over Hemingway and in an old man's fishin' boat Of all the things I wanted you to be Of all the things I wish that you were now You were not around You were not around
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Written by: Ryan Adams
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