Drive-By Truckers - A Ghost to Most lyrics

I guess I'll never grow a sideburn
It's a shame with all I've got to go between
I hope somebody's cause takes soon
It's getting hard to find a
Place a root can sink
Mama said a lot of things
And "Be thankful" was the one
She never minded saying twice
Thanks to her I can think clear enough
To be thankful that she died before tonight

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without
The rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did
But skeletons ain't got nowhere
To stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides, you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had


A hair or a hide

Saving everybody takes a man on a mission
With a swagger that can set the world at ease
Some believe it's God's own
Hand on the trigger
And the other dumping water in the streets
Talking tough's easy when it's
Other people's evil
And you're judging what they
Do and don't believe
It seems to me you'd have to
Have a hole your own
To point a finger at somebody else's sheet

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without
The rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did
Skeletons ain't got nowhere to
Stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides, you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had
A hair or a hide

I don't know how good it does a man
To keep on telling him how
Good it is he's free
Free to wash his ghost down the drain
And free for them to tell him
There's no such a thing

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping
Like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without
The rest of me
It wouldn't matter if they did
Skeletons ain't got nowhere to
Stick their money
Nobody makes britches that size
And besides you're a ghost to most
Before they notice that you ever had
A hair or a hide