Lyrics

Old And Worn Out

Lately he's been listening to Hank, Willy, George and Merle
Lately he's been thinking 'bout a friend who used to be his girl
And it ain't so much the loneliness that's tugging at his sleeve
It's just this stubborn sadness that he can't get to leave

He joins the boys down at Frank's cafe on the days he goes to town
They talk about the weather and the market report and how the government let them down
Mostly he don't say too much, he just stares into his coffee cup
And he thinks about how things might have been and how things ended up

He's old and worn out with nothing left to show
But a beat up pickup truck and a one horse rodeo
He's old and worn out, he can't make out the time
But it's somewhere between half past what went wrong
And quarter to the end of the line

There was a time when times were good and time was all he had
And the love he'd found could carry him through the good times and the bad
But time has a way of slipping past like water through dry ground
Now she's gone, she ain't coming back and his kids never come around

He's old and worn out with nothing left to show
But a beat up pickup truck and a one horse rodeo
He's old and worn out, he can't make out the time
But it's somewhere between half past what went wrong
And quarter to the end of the line