1. Backwater

Down at Backwater junction
Rolling down the line
In the dark early morning
I heard the one-forty-nine
I was walking down the highway
Needed somewhere to go
A lady laid beside me
And she invited me home
She led me cold, tired and hungry
Down the backwater road

In a house on the corner
looking over the track
I woke up with a fever
And a pain in my back
She was lying there beside me
My fever started to grow
Had a funny feeling
But the lady said no
The lover needs a doctor
Down the Backwater Road

Whatcha' lookin' for
Whatcha' lookin' for
Lady do you know whatcha' lookin' for
Was I wrong to play along
Lady was I right or lady was I wrong

Backwater doctor
You've got me breathing in time
It's ten-thirty in the morning
And I'm feeling alright
I went back to my lady
But I wasn't to know
Lady left this morning
And she's not coming home
I was cold when she left me
Down the Backwater Road

2. Just take me

I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go
All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone
If I was a rich man, if I was a king
I would give you all I have, give you everything
If you'd just take me, just take me now
If you'd just take me

Never seen my daddy, died when I was two
Mama did the best she could, taught me all she knew
Said that love was everything, tears came to her eyes
Never knew the meaning, now I realise
Love is all you need, all you need now
If you just take me

I'm trying hard to get you, I'm not the only one
Never had a big car, but I'm not on the run
If love has got a meaning see it in my eyes
If you see the beginning, then you'd realise
Love is all you need, all you need now
If you just take me

I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go
All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone
If I was a rich man, if I was a king
I would give you all I have, give you everything
If you'd just take me, just take me now
If you'd just take me

Just take me
Just take me now
Won't you just take me

Just take me
Just take me now
Won't you just take me

3. Break the rules

Spent a long, long evening
In a low down honky-tonk bar
Pulled a low down lady
With a long black honky-tonk car
I asked no questions
I got no lies
A one off winner
I didn't want any ties
And I knew it wasn't right
Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

Took me down on the highway
Doing too many miles an hour
By the way she motored
Thought we might have made the Eiffel Tower
She stopped the motor
By her own front door
I knew she'd done it
So many times before
But I was off of the floor
But, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

I woke up next moring
Feeling kind of up and down
'Cos I did not know
If I was in or out of the town
Then I saw the face
From the night before
My purse was empty
Lying there on the floor
But like I told you before
That, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

I spend a low down evening
Sitting high on a honky-tonk stool
And I spent my money
Like a low down honky-tonk fool
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Yes, everybody has to sometimes break the rules

4. Drifting away

You can't see what you mean to me
I just can't get you out of my head
You move me more than I've ever been
Like a wild supersonic jet
But I can see your love drifting away
And I don't want your love d-d-d-drifting away

I got told by a friend of mine
That you don't want me anymore
Now my friend's got a broken nose
Sure and I got a broken jaw
So don't push me around, throw me away
And I don't want your love d-d-d-drifting away

Don't you know what I'm living for
Don't you know what I'm trying to say
Don't try to shove me outta that door
'Cos you're mine and it's staying that way
I'm giving you my love just throw it away
But I can see your love d-d-d-drifting away
Oh drifting away you got me drifting away
Oh drifting away

5. Don't think it matters

Maybe I'm right, or maybe I'm wrong
I got to go on anyway
I'm finding it hard to try and play the right card
And woman you're getting in my way
Oh, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all

I'm working all night, you know I'm working all night
Trying to get something out of my head
I live for the day when everybody will say
It's better than all of the rest
Oh, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all

Maybe I'm right, or maybe I'm wrong
I just do the best that I can
I been working all night, yeah I work through the night
Woman can't you understand

Oh, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all
No, you don't think it matters at all

6. Fine fine fine

I never knew of heartache
'til I messed with you
I sure do sitting here
And feeling all the pain
I just can't sleep now
'cos I'm hoping that you'll keep
Another heartache for my heart again

My mama taught me
How to read from the good book
My papa taught me
How to win and lose a game
They went down smiling
'cos they left me all they had
Plus another heartache for my heart again

But now it's fine, fine, fine
'cos you're with me all the time
There to care and share the things I do
And now it's fine, fine, fine
'cos you're with me all the time
Everywhere and even nowhere too

I use to make the late nights
On a cheap weekend
But all the women there were
Just a crying shame
I heard them saying
That they didn't think I'd stop
For another heartache for my heart again

But now it's fine, fine, fine
'cos you're with me all the time
There to care and share the things I do
And now it's fine, fine, fine
'cos you're with me all the time
Everywhere and even nowhere too

7. Lonely man

Lonely man upon the shore
What on earth are you looking for?
You're protection is quite clear
And you're never really near
Will you ever find what you are looking for?

Seeing others on the shelf
Only thinking of yourself
Will you ever start to learn?
Will your pockets ever burn?
Will you ever find what you are looking for?

Look at the sky, why do you cry?
What do you see? Your misery

Look at the sky, why do you cry?
What do you see? Your misery

Lonely man, you're on your own
Find someone to take you home
A friend is what you need
Would you mind if it was me?
Maybe then you'll find what you are looking for

Will you ever find what you are looking for?

8. Slow train

I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane
I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun

I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station
I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun

Hey mama, please now don't you fret none
Don't worry, but please don't you forget
Hey mama, please don't get upset none
I gotta leave to find me something better

Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now
Believe me, no need for you to write
Hey mama, things gonna work out fine now
I gotta friend who said that she'd invite me

I came here in the morning and I crept out in the middle of
night
I gave nobody warning I was leaving and I felt it was right
Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right

Got a feeling that I'm leaving with a ticket and I won't jump a
ride
It's no good you believing that my leaving was a wrong, it was
right
Now I'm off again, it sure is feeling all right

I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane
I gotta jump a ride on a cattle-trucking slow train
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun

I wrote a rockin' song, gonna sing it at the station
I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun
I guess it doesn't matter
As long as I can get my head down in the sun