Guitar Man Upstairs-Drive-By Truckers

[ti:Guitar Man Upstairs] [ar:Drive-By Truckers] [al:Southern Rock Opera] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Guitar Man Upstairs - Drive-By Truckers [00:00.02]Written by：Patterson Hood/Mike Cooley/Earl Hicks/Rob Malone/Brad Morgan [00:00.03] [00:00.67]I think I'm gonna call the police I hear something upstairs [00:04.08] [00:06.39]I know well and well there ain't nothing good going on up there [00:10.26] [00:13.07]There's probably ten or more of them sittin' all around [00:15.85] [00:17.63]Smokin' that stuff and drinkin' that hard liquor down [00:20.64] [00:21.82]I've been living in this city since the day I was born [00:25.68] [00:27.82]I've seen good times come and go and I've seen bad times drag on [00:31.74] [00:34.62]I've seen white and black folks alike get treated just like sin [00:38.03] [00:39.16]And every year or so I see a new truck load of white trash movin' [00:42.69]In [00:43.43] [00:46.18]When I was sixteen I had a little trouble with the law [00:49.42] [00:50.47]He said boy come here I said boy yourself [00:52.69] [00:53.21]I ain't done nothing wrong [00:54.82] [00:57.93]He grabbed me by the arm and he went upside my head [01:00.81] [01:01.94]Nobody saw nothing [01:03.35]B UT I got a little spot where my hair ain't grown back yet [01:06.73] [01:30.03]I used to have me a woman and a pretty fine home [01:33.90] [01:35.73]But it took so much to keep them both going I was always out and [01:39.60]Gone [01:40.18] [01:42.75]I came home one afternoon to get me change of clothes [01:46.49] [01:47.20]Caught a quick walkin' slick talkin' guitar picker [01:49.16] [01:49.73]Headin' out my back door [01:50.99] [01:53.97]Now I'm proud to say I ain't never been no violent man [01:57.26] [01:58.30]But I'd sure be rotting in jail today if I'd had me a gun in [02:02.09]My hand [02:02.64] [02:04.98]I went inside threw her clothes on the floor and laid a suitcase across the [02:09.02]Bed [02:09.79]Not a word got spoke not a lick got thrower [02:12.23]And my woman ain't come back yet [02:13.66] [02:37.89]Now I live in this building with the punks and the freaks [02:41.87] [02:43.60]And I don't do much of nothing except go to work come home and drink [02:47.96] [02:50.13]So guitar man you done picked the wrong damn place to stay [02:53.28] [02:54.98]I'm a feeble old man [02:56.39]You're a young smart ass [02:57.92]And there's a law man on his way