Peace Of Mind

Intro verse 1 He drinks orange juice and vodka in the basement while she’s talkin’ To someone, long distance, for hours and hours on end And as he slowly sipping he thinks about his children And the heart attacks that youngest daughters always giving him He ain’t smoke no marijuana since he got on with the railroad And he’s been on with the railroad for a long and loathsome while But the day that he retires he will smoke himself to China He will leave behind his worries as he’s racing through the sky Isntrumental verse 2 She sells Avon to her buddies and saves a little money On the makeup she’s been using to hide away the years And she sits and watches TV usually every evening If there aint some kind of ball game her daughter has to cheer She sneaks menthols in the morning while her family’s still a-snoring And as she burns the echoes she looks back at her life That heart she broke in high school he’s singin’ on the Opry She wonders what the hell that she was thinking at the time Oh the days are dark down in the holler Waitin’ for the sun to shine On the back you’ve been breaking Trying to earn peace of mind Isntrumental verse 3 Their youngest daughter Stella she’s been running with this fella That he can not stand the thought of that he surely does despise He’s told her he’d best never see the two of them together But its hard to keep an eye on her when you’re working all the time There are things he needs to tend to and the bills the bank keeps sendin’ Lord the zeros on the end keep pushing further to the right Like a freight train haulin’ sorrow and moving ever onward Through the tunnel of forever towards the never ending light Oh the days are dark down in the holler Waitin’ for the sun to shine On the back you’ve been breaking Trying to earn peace of mind Trying to earn peace of mind