The Barr Brothers - Burn Card lyrics

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The Barr Brothers - Burn Card lyrics

The trickin' leads to my worried mind My worried mind, it leads to you And thinkin' of you leads to nowhere but to the Devil in the ocean blue I ask the moon for orchids She said "How 'bout a drop of blood from a rolling stone?" She never fails to tickle my funny bone How do you steal what you really want When what you really want is free? And how do you deal when you lost at the wheel Only thinkin' how it 'oughta be? Held my love for ransom, and posted a reward I cannot afford A dynamite from the ceiling to the floor Yeah from your one-eyed-jacks to your rolled up trips I'll be gone when your pocket aces flip And there ain't no river that needs a damn Just a slow and steady drift I'll be your burn card Lost in the shuffle at the bottom of the deck, yeah Tryin' to hide by the highway's low And the low way's mine You can burn me eternally Out to the snow and the wind and the rain And again and again and again and I'm just leavin' a little worse than when I came Trouble is as a trouble does When it's on a troubled mind Reasons come and reasons will go When the blind are followin' the blind The coffin in that cradle The daughter and the Holy Ghost in the same room Me, I'm just makin' the dust fly with the broom Yeah from your one-eyed-jacks to your rolled up trips I'll be gone when your pocket aces flip And it ain't no river that needs a damn Just a slow and steady drift I'll be your burn card Lost in the shuffle at the bottom of the deck, yeah Tryin' to hide where the aces are low And the blinds are too high You can burn me eternally Out to the snow and the wind and the rain And again and again and again and again and again I'm just leavin' a little worse than when I came