Ridin' Out The Storm

Give me moonlight gravel, and a pickle jar

I'll never go away too far from a post oak tree

Played like boxcar children in the wilderness

But in real life, I'm all defense, heart-born deportee

In hindsight, I guess I was for sale

For a compliment and a cocktail

Thirty coins and I'd exhale my light

Scratching your back like I never broke a nail

And I'm on kitchen detail for the rest of my life

Like a bolt from the blue

No reason, no rhyme

Your guess is as good as mine

Wipe it off and go inside

Batten down the hatches

Ridin' out the storm

Ridin' out the storm

Wintergreen, I'm a bet, let's make a scene

You're Lenny Bruce, I'm kerosene

Knee-deep in a midnight star

Mini Ha Ha Bingo on the service road

The caller, she's a Seminole from where the water barks

I broke all seven seals back in '86

Just to get it over with

Now I gotta walk all my days in a knot

Assuredly, I sure love a full tank of gas

Right on red, the smell of sweetgrass

It's not all bad, my little heart's gleam

Like a bolt from the blue

No reason, no rhyme

Your guess is as good as mine

Wipe it off and go inside

Batten down the hatches

Ridin' out the storm

Ridin' out the storm

X marks the spot with an X-X-X and a dot-dot-dot

You know I never thought-thought-thought I'd go and get the chills

That memory, 'bout as useful as a pay phone

'Bout as free as a metronome, but I guess it led me here

And here's as good a place to be as anywhere

A daycare for your nightmares, I hear that I'm dreaming it all

So I buckle up but not too tight, and I call home on the by-and-by

It's a tight squeeze and a cool breeze, and it's like

A bolt from the blue

A bolt from the blue

No reason, no rhyme

Your guess is as good as mine

Wipe it off and go inside

Batten down the hatches

No reason, no rhyme

Your guess is as good as mine

Wipe it off and go inside

Batten down the hatches

Ridin' out the storm

Ridin' out the storm

Ridin' out the storm

Ridin' out the storm