Willi Carlisle plays live at MerleFest in Window World Hall at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC on April 26, 2 | dG1fdzQ0Z3JacHJ5VzQ
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00:00I've been turned around in Tidewater, all alone in Pueblo I've been driving with a death wish down the mountains on my phone
00:16Half the places I've been might be laced with psilocybin I've been dreaming of a country I saw at the rodeo
00:24Packed a ball in Neepaw jangles, cause Tennessee's so cold Charlottesville by sundown's a nightmare to behold
00:32There's an old time name with a twisty name, I couldn't read it if she wrote it Got a black powder revolver, wants to see if it's still loaded
00:42I've been called by a higher lonesome than low as low can be You can write it on my tombstone, how but life looks pretty wholesome
00:54When you pay the price and the foolishness it takes to get you free Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
01:05Codependents of Slough and Illinois, they all know how I felt for ya I felt it in my guts before two steps in Philadelphia
01:18With every coin the joiners get, they're farther from the pain of it All the hurting that we did, it's a shame no coin will pay for it
01:27I think I fell in love again on a walk in City Park Yodorowsky on the tiny screen and the zigzags in the dark
01:34And I figured I should let it go or give it a couple days A ton of bricks in Minneapolis, she donned my last name
01:44I've been called by a higher lonesome than low as low can be You can write it on my tombstone, how but life looks pretty wholesome
01:56When you pay the price and the foolishness it takes to get you free Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
02:09I saw the darkness coming at me in a Jeff City motel There was writing on the mirror, said you messed up so go to hell
02:20And Cormier's pills were on me still and her letter just half read By the time the sun was up I just got breakfast instead
02:28I wish I could call the old folks that aren't with us anymore I feel granny dancing recklessly at the Floyd Country Store
02:36And the artist has his suffering and the gods will have their pain By the time the ride is over I'm sure I'll ask to ride again
02:44See the snowfall in Wyoming strung out on John O's Coke Keep a mailbox in Nebraska so I know that Laura knows
02:52She can write a letter once a year, say that we're still close I can put my sins on Benjamin, hear the songs he wrote
03:00I don't want to hit rock bottom just to see how deep it goes Shining light on six feet under so I ain't afraid to go
03:08Proving fact it is as loveless can be Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
03:16I've been caught by a higher lonesome Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me
03:28Higher lonesome, kill the bitter parts of me