Lyrics Live Oak (2023 Remaster).lrc Jason Isbell
[id: pshjhiqh]
[ar: Jason Isbell]
[al: Southeastern]
[ti: Live Oak (2023 Remaster)]
[length: 03:37]
[00:00.50]There’s a man who walks beside me
[00:02.31]It is who I used to be
[00:05.39]And I wonder if she sees him
[00:09.01]And confuses him with me
[00:11.42]And I wonder who she’s pinin’ for
[00:14.90]On nights I’m not around
[00:17.63]Could it be the man who did the things
[00:20.85]I’m living down?
[00:25.80]I was rougher than a timber
[00:28.82]Shippin’ out of Fond du Lac
[00:31.02]When I headed south at 17
[00:34.26]Ol’ sheriff on my back
[00:37.63]I never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze
[00:42.56]So I found another victim every couple days
[00:49.70]But the night I fell in love with her
[00:53.29]I made my weakness known
[00:55.65]Through the fires and the farmers diggin’ dusty fields alone
[01:01.58]The jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men
[01:06.89]Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in
[01:13.35]Well you couldn’t stay a loner
[01:17.94]On the plains before the war
[01:20.24]My neighbors had been slightin’ me
[01:23.74]I had to ask what for
[01:26.44]Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
[01:31.78]Soon she’d heard about the boys I used to hang around
[01:40.44]We’d robbed a Great Lakes freighter
[01:42.51]Killed a couple men or more
[01:44.97]And I told her her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword
[01:50.92]All the things that she’d suspected
[01:53.42]I’d expected her to fear
[01:56.24]Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here
[02:04.76]There’s a man who walks beside me
[02:08.07]He is who I used to be
[02:10.70]And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
[02:15.68]And I wonder who she’s pinin’ for
[02:18.72]On nights I’m not around
[02:21.52]Could it be the man who did the things
[02:24.28]I’m living down?
[02:52.58]Well I carved a cross from live oak
[02:56.00]And a box from shortleaf pine
[02:59.40]Buried her so deep
[03:01.96]She touched the water table line
[03:04.73]I picked up what I needed
[03:07.36]And I headed south again
[03:09.72]To myself I wondered
[03:11.85]Would I find another friend
[03:18.45]There’s a man who walks beside her
[03:20.98]It is who I used to be
[03:23.37]And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
[03:30.16]Year of Release: 2013