Drive-By Truckers - Cartoon Gold lyrics

I'm not good with numbers
I just count on knowing when I'm high enough
A mule with only two legs counting steps
Toward dangling carrots don't add up
I think about you when I can
And even sometimes when I can't, i do
Once the driver knows you got good sense
He takes away the carrots too

Getting all excited finding nothing that
Was never there before
Is like bringing flowers to your mama and
Tracking dog shit all over the floor
Jesus made the flowers
But it took a dog to make the story good
I think about you when I can
And sometimes when I don't
I probably should


Tending bar in LA after dark must


Be like mining cartoon gold
Rocks that won't cooperate and tools that
Drive you crazy must get old
I think about you when I can
And sometimes when I do, i still get caught
Sitting in a bar in LA after
Dark with my sunglasses on