Bruce Springsteen – Straight Time Lyrics  Share

From Bruce Springsteen's album: The Ghost of Tom Joad

Got out of prison back in ^,86 and I found a wife
Walked the clean and narrow
Just tryin^, to stay out and stay alive
Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain^,t gonna make me rich
In the darkness before dinner comes
Sometimes I can feel the itch

I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line
I^,m sick of doin^, straight time

My uncle^,s at the evenin^, table, makes his living runnin^, hot cars
Slips me a hundred dollar bill says
"Charlie you best remember who your friends are".

Got a cold mind to go trippin^{, ,}cross that thin line
I ain^,t makin^, straight time

Eight years in it feels like you^,re gonna die
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But you get used to anything
Sooner or later it just becomes your life

Kitchen floor in the evening tossin^, my little babies high
Mary^,s smiling but she^,s watching me out of the corner of her eye
Seems you can^,t get any more than half free
I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me

Got a cold mind to go trippin^{, ,}cross that thin line
I^,m sick of doin^, straight time
In the basement huntin^, gun and a hacksaw
Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor

Come home in the evening, can^,t get the smell from my hands
Lay my head down on the pillow
And go driftin^, off into foreign lands
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