Them Things Lyrics

I met a girl just south of east Saint Louis

She walked into my life like someone's dream

Her silk guitar and visions of redemption

Her glassy thighs that billowed clouds of steam

Her martyred look her tale of lasting struggles

Her visions of the things that might have been

She asked me if them was the things I longed for

But them things isn't things I want again

Them things ain't as good as what I wanted

Them things ain't as good as feeling free

Them things ain't as good as all the things I think I should have

And them things just ain't good enough for me

I met a woman breathing like a vulture

Inside a nest of fading scattered poems

In search of love and platitudes of culture

To lead her into someone elses home

Writing in an absent Christmas diary

And borrowing a thought from Jesus Christ

Doing unto others all of them things

That them guys could have done if them was nice

Them things ain't as good as what I wanted

Them things ain't as good as feeling free

Them things ain't as good as all the things I think I should have

And them things just ain't good enough for me

There is softness in her eyes when she's discovering

All the hidden recollections in my mind

What she'll never understand is I've been hovering

Between taking her and leaving them behind

I watched this country angel for a whole year

But couldn't find a line of senseless verse

I was fixing to depart she said

Do I getta keep your heart

I guess them things could have ended plenty worse

Do a getta feel your warm breath by my bedside

Do a getta throw the sheets off of your back

Do I getta watch the love as it descends from high above

Upon a frozen night near a rusty railroad track

Them things ain't as good as what I wanted

Them things ain't as good as feeling free

Them things ain't as good as all the things I think I should have

And them things just ain't good enough for me

Do a getta feel your warm breath by my bedside

Do a getta throw the sheets off of your back

Do I getta watch the love as it descends from high above

Upon a frozen night near a rusty railroad track