One Paper Kid-Guy Clark

[00:14.71]Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb [00:21.18]Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind [00:26.92]Ah the distance was short so light it again [00:33.60]It don't take no time to get where I am [00:41.28]But one paper kid wasn't really so mean [00:47.47]Just a little bit scared and a little bit green [00:53.68]And he'd heard of a place and it was legal to dream [00:59.99]So he sat with his coffee in a blue Texas wind [01:06.72]Wrote on a rock the one paper kid is rolling again [01:16.49] [01:27.12]Ah the driver was drunk or he just didn't see [01:33.98]The future was there it'll happen to me [01:39.67]And all the time that he'd wasted was his once again [01:46.54]Ah it never takes long to get where you've been [01:54.18]There's broken hearts scattered all over the past [02:01.02]And old bad memories trying to last [02:07.40]Whiskey and women and growing up fast [02:13.76]Fussing and loving and itching like grass [02:19.80]Hell that one paper kid wasn't really so mean [02:26.11]Just a little bit weird cause the times were so lean [02:32.49]Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream [02:39.27]No camels no coffee no cold morning winds [02:45.49]And it's written on a rock [02:49.21]The one paper kid he's rolling again [02:55.33] [03:03.15]Ah the one paper kid he's rolling again [03:09.36]