Blood Oranges Lyrics

And if you learn how to live round here

You're doing better than most

And all the pretty girls

Are singin' harmonies for the last post

They're asking me to sing at the funeral

Of everybody I knew

And the blood oranges on the stairs

Remind me what we used to do

So come on little sister

Come blow me ya horn

The train of my life

Left long before I got on

Oh one shit heap of a town

My guitar's a survival tool

Been this way since daddy left

And mama died givin' me you

Hey pretty darlin'

I swear I saw daddy in his eyes

I got drunk dirty

Stood there and cried

He's lookin' at me

And my crying eyes at the floor

But I ain't got it in me

I'm sorrier than I ever been before

And when it comes to feelings

I've always been a pitiful man

It's twenty years of singin'

Songs they don't understand

Little sister gone and got pregnant

Now she gotta go

Left my ass weeping over the

Shadow of ghosts we used to know

And if you learn how to live round here

You're doing better than most

And all the pretty girls

Are singin' harmonies of the last post

And they still asking me to sing at the funeral

Of everybody I knew

Oh and the blood oranges on the stairs

Remind me what we used to do