More Than One Year

I did a one night stand in Phoenix, at a run-down dirty bar

As I stumbled off the stage, an old man grabbed my guitar

He said, "Son, I'm glad I caught your show, I really dig your sound

But you may never get your chance if you don't slow down"

I said, "I'm hopped up on the cocaine

Shootin' whiskey, feeling no pain

Need a handful of pills

Just to get back down

Half a bottle of George Dickel

And a fully loaded pistol

Scares off all the demons

Every time they come around

I've lost track of all the women

Can't get back what I've been spending

That's just the cost of living

More than one year at a time"

Well he was standing in the shadows, he fired up a cigarette

It was like I'd always known him even though we'd never met

There was something so familiar, that old six-string in his hand

And then his words cut through the smoke, he said, "I understand"

"Son, I've been hopped up on the cocaine

Shootin' whiskey, feeling no pain

Need a handful of pills

Just to get back down

Half a bottle of George Dickel

And a fully loaded pistol

Scares off all the demons

Every time they come around

I've lost track of all the women

Can't get back what I've been spending

That's just the cost of living

More than one year at a time"

Well I got an ice cold eerie feeling

When I recognized that man

He said, "Hoss, this outlaw bit

Can sure get out of hand"

When you're hopped up on the cocaine

Shootin' whiskey, feeling no pain

Need a handful of pills

Just to get back down

Half a bottle of George Dickel

And a fully loaded pistol

Scares off all the demons

Every time they come around

I've lost track of all the women

Can't get back what I've been spending

That's just the cost of living

More than one year at a time

More than one year at a time

More than one year at a time