Long Way to Texas
It’s a long way from here to Texas
Why’d you want to run away from here?
We come from California
They won’t take your Driver’s license
You scream
They don’t like us
Let’s go to Reno
Before the solstice
My cousin’s got a farm
And I’m from there
I hear the state’s building a prison next door
And they won’t find much more.
Don’t depend on them for nothing
They don’t know where it ends or begins
If you’re true, relax
We’ll get through these hard times fine
Do the clouds appear more real?
Than the roads your riding on
Does the fence that traveling with you on each side
Reach up to the sky?
So you’re bringing home a paycheck
To the girl you met in school
Are you thinking bout having children
Or what you’ve got to lose
Don’t depend on them for nothing
They don’t know where it ends of begins
If you’re true, relax
We’ll get through these hard times fine.
Used to play the guitar
Sing a song from time to time
Did you think that you’d get far?
Did you think that you’d leave it behind?
Don’t depend on them for nothing,
They don’t know where it ends or begins
If you’re true, relax
We’ll get through these hard times fine
Don’t depend on them for nothing,
They don’t know where it ends or begins,
If you’re true, relax
We’ll get through these hard time fine.
December 1st, 2005
alternate title: Don’t Depend on Them
December 8th, 2005
This is one of those songs that really needs to work it’s way into the rotation. It reminds me in a sense of a dead type Comes A Time… Really can just blow up a setlist in my opinion.
May 23rd, 2007
“If you’re true, relax
We’ll get through these hard times fine”
Love that line!
March 22nd, 2009
You scream
They don’t like us
it is not that, it is
It’s clear
They don’t like us
Also, this whole verse is messed up:
Let’s go to Reno
Before the solstice
My cousin’s got a farm
And I’m from there
I hear the state’s building a prison next door
And they won’t find much more.
It is:
Let’s go to Reno
Before it snows there
My cousin’s got a farm
An Hour away
I hear the state’s building a prison right next door
And they wont farm there much more
(See how he mentioned his cousins farm prior) makes much more sense