Sometimes you can’t do nothin’ wrong

Sometimes it just don’t pay to try

Sometimes the day goes like a song

Sometimes storm clouds beat the sky

You’re payin for the pleasure you’re payin’ for the pain

You’re payin’ for the fare that’s gonna take you there

But you can’t get off and you can’t complain

Sometimes you wake up on the south side of nothin’

Sometimes you wake up in Spain

You just ride the train

You just ride the train

Sometimes the girl’s got what you want

Sometimes you don’t know what she needs

Sometimes you just can’t get enough

Sometimes it’s just enough to bleed

That woman is an engine she’s steamin’ down the main

Screamin’ down the track breathin’ down your back

You hear the clickity clack runnin’ through your brain

Sometimes the woman is a true companion

Sometimes the woman’s insane

You just ride the train

You just ride the train

Sometimes you can’t do nothin’ wrong

Sometimes you just can’t close the deal

Sometimes the day goes like a song

Sometimes you’re crushed beneath the wheel

Sometimes there’s nothin’ to loose

Sometimes there’s nothin’ to gain

But you know anything might go your way

So you get back up and you do it all again

Sometimes you wake up in a world full of summer

Sometimes it’s the pouring rain

You just ride the train

You just ride the train

Just ride the train just ride the train

©1999 Lonnie Knight Songs

This house mocks me in the nighttime

So I'll turn all the lights on

I just can't stand the darkness

I'll leave 'em burnin' dusk 'til dawn

Since you went away

I get spooked by every sound

So if you don't come back home

I'm gonna burn this house to the ground

I'll make a long term reservation

At the broken heart motel

It's in a garden spot location

It's only three doors down from hell

Since you went away

I've got no cause to hang around

So if you don't come back home

I'm gonna burn this house to the ground   

I'm living in a house of mirrors

I'm living in a house of cards

Reflecting back the lonely hours

And it shudders when the wind blows hard

Once this house was soaked with love

Now it's drier than an August day

One match she'll catch

All my troubles gonna burn away

I can't afford to pay the mortgage

There's a lien upon my soul

Baby, you put me up for sale,

And I'm gettin' tired of bein' bought and sold

Since you went away

These walls are tumbling down

And if you don't come back home

I'm gonna burn this house to the ground  

©1999 Lonnie Knight Songs

Starin' out of a rainy window

All the poets in the big hotel

Empty hands over silent paper

Still waiting for the starting bell

Pontiac cruises 'round the corner

Faces hidden from the ones outside

All the poets shake their heads and wonder

Is something born has something died

All the words that used to be so hard to say

I always swore I'd find the chance to say them all one day

I can tell you that I still love you

I can show you now if you still want me to

This one's for you  

Stained glass in a dim cathedral

Stained hearts on a downhill slide

We dance to a still piano

All the poets take a step and slide

All the drinks have turned to water

All the cars have turned for home

Pontiac cruises 'round the corner

Steel echoes and rusty chrome

All the words that used to be so hard to say

I always swore I'd find the chance to say them all one day

I can tell you that I still love you

I can show you now if you still want me to

This one's for you

I meant to tell you on a rainy evening

I meant to tell you on a sunny day

I meant to show you there's a love that guides us

I meant to tell you 'fore you went away

There's a poet in a bell jar crying

Over lovers who have gone astray

Pontiac cruises 'round the corner

All the words that used to be so hard to say

I always swore I'd find the chance to say them all one day

I can tell you that I still love you

I can show you now if you still want me to

This one's for you  

©1999 Lonnie Knight Songs

She took all the good that was ever in me

She took everything that this man could be

She left me here drowning in the middle of the sea

With all the other sailors just laughin' at me

And that's why, that's why

I ain't lookin' for no alibi

For sinkin'so low, and livin'so high

I'm just too damn blue to die

She didn't keep my money she didn't keep my name

She didn't even tell me why she left me all the blame

Puttin' on her angry hat and fannin' up the flames

Pointin' her finger cryin' shame shame shame

And that's why that's why

I ain't lookin' for no alibi

For bustin' up the avenue chewin' up the sky

I'm just too damn blue to die

Now I'm knockin' on the door, won't somebody let me in

I'm livin' on the edge and the edge is gettin' thin

If I could, I'd take 'em back, each and every little sin

But there ain't no excuse for the shape I'm in

And that's why that's why

I ain't lookin' for no alibi

For standin' here laughin' when I really need to cry

I'm just too damn blue to die

©1999 Lonnie Knight Songs