Jason Boland & The Stragglers - Dark & Dirty Mile Lyrics
I refuse to spend the rest of my days trying to get away from all the thingsI did when I knew not what I had done(?)Oh so young and tired of love was I that I and my own bottle always refused to hearthem (?) tell me not to stare into the sunThis pornographic place told me a body was to be feared and then wanted at the sametime man, if you could figure howFeared because it was the pathway to the mortal sin and then wanted because we'll all be dust afew short years from now.Chorus:It's a broken hearted world that we inheritAll we're told to do is sin and bear itFor a little while,On this dark and dirty mile.It took awhile at least for me to live enough until i believe in none of what I heard and less than half of what I sawMark the days have come and gone some were lost and some were wrong and the way back home we'll figure out a place to place it allChorus:It's a broken hearted world that we inheritAll we're told is to do sin and bear itFor a little while,On this dark and dirty mileWe're all family here on trialOn the dark and dirty mileFinally I realized that knowledge better make you wiseOr all the knots you learned to tie will leave you in a ballHelpless as when we were born threaded bare and holy worn shivering as summer gives way to early fallChorus:It's a broken hearted world that we inheritAll we're told is to do sin and bear itFor a little while,On the dark and dirty mileWe're all family here on trialOn the dark and dirty mile
