Mistress Named Music Red Rocks Medley (Live)

I still remember Miss Bessie singing

Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys

Just five years old, my church shoes dangling

Yes, she's long gone and I'm still singing this song

With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

I got a crazy heart, but I was born to lose it

Married to a dream with a mistress named music

No hope, squarely solitary

Enough Whiskey and Coke to get me in a bind

Amps juiced, the whole damn block could hear me

Even that cop car driving past

As out the front door

I was out the back

I'm with a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

I got a crazy heart, I was born to lose it

I'm married to a dream with a mistress named music

White calloused fingers on bronze and nylon

These same old boots are still tapping time

Not quite the buzz I used to tie on at the Grizzley Rose

Till I'm gone, I'll keep chasing this song

Chasing this song

Stood there boldly

Sweating in the sun

Felt like a million

Felt like number one

The height of summer

Never been that strong

Like a rock, like a rock

Nothing ever got to me, like a rock

I was something to see, like a rock

I was like a rock

Even though I ain't got money

I'm so in love with you, honey

And everything will bring a chain of love

Every morning, when I rise

You bring a smile of joy to my eyes

And tell me everything is gonna be alright

That I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari

Tehachapi to Tonapah

I cannot even kind of rig that's ever been made

Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed

But if you give me weed, whites, and wine

And you show me a sign

And I'll be willing, to be moving

With John at the bar, he's a friend of mine

Gets me my drinks for free

And he's quick with a joke and to light up your smoke

But there's someplace that he'd rather be

He says, Bill, I believe this is killing me

As the smile ran away from his face

Yeah, I'm sure that I could be a movie star

If I could get out of this place

So, play us a song, you're the piano man

I'll play us a song tonight

'Cause we're all in the mood for a melody

And you got us feeling alright

Alright, alright, alright

I still feel 25 most of the time

I still raise a little Cain with the boys

A Honky Tonks and pretty women

I'm still right there with 'em

Above the crowd and the noise

Sometimes I feel like Jesse James trying to make a name

Knowing no one's gonna change who I am

I was a young troubadour when I wrote in on a song

And I'm gonna be an old troubadour when I'm known

With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines

That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride

I got a crazy heart, and I was born to lose it

I'm married to a dream with a mistress named music