Clay Bluffs Lyrics

She's a wife and a mother

And a girl about eighteen

A manager on the day shift

Over at the Burger King

She was going to join the Army

But then the baby came

Now she's living on the edge of Casper

Looking for a new dream

And it ain't a wasteland, just a sad land

Of people getting by

Trying to earn a little money

Watch TV and get high

From the high plains to the badlands

Are lives just blowing by

While the wind whips those clay bluffs to dust

And casts them down the sky

Her husband lost his job

Down at the Gas-N-Go

For drinking in the bathroom

Passing out on the floor

But the oil fields are tougher

It's a piss test every day

And he ain't trying very hard

To find another way

She could sign up at the college

Become a dental tech

Get a loan and go to part time

But they need that whole paycheck

Or maybe she'll just leave him here

To wake up in his mess

Take the baby and move in with a friend

Over in Gillette