There was a mountain on the table
Of bills that needed paid
Dishes in the kitchen sink like dreams that never fade
A wild imagination of convicts in the yard
Never enough time to make ends meet
So they put it on a credit card, don't we all?

You may not know just where you came from
But once upon a time
There was a carpenter, a bartender, a broken fishing line
Just south of royal teeth in the town that I came from
There were architects and astronauts
But the only one she loved was a prison guard

And that's the only time I ever saw true love
And erica's a girl I liked in georgia
Alone and kept me warm in eugene
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
What's fine enough to me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard

There's a gate that needed painting
Clothes that needed clean
They'd say there's time enough
For that when the fun has all been seen
Cause when we're laying on our death bed
A promise we won't say
Wish we would have worked more, baby
Instead of loving you that way, no way
And that's the only time I ever saw true love

Segourney is a girl I met in brooklyn
Herris got me close in new orleans
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
What's fine enough to me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard

I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are

Betty is a girl I knew in charlotte
Left for sydney yesterday
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
What's fine enough to me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard
Whoever you are