Drive-By Truckers - Marry Me lyrics

Well, my daddy didn't pull out
But he never apologized
Rock and roll means well
But it can't help tellin' young boys lies
A baby on the way's a good enough
Reason to get you out alive
Get you out without having
To swallow any pride

All my friends are restless
All they do is talk it down
Two or eight lanes, it don't matter
It's just another town
There's a fool on every
Corner, on every street, in everyone
And I'd rather be your fool nowhere than
Go somewhere and be no one's

So marry me, sweet thing, won't you marry me?
Your mama thinks I beat
Anything she's ever seen


Well, this old town's alright with me
There's nowhere I'd rather be
Long as they stay mad at one another
They can't get mad at me

Every time I leave here
Something bad happens to me
Like a busted hand or finding some
Man laying where I sleep
She don't mean nothin' to me
That's just how it goes 'round here
It's a cartoon town, I played my part
And I ain't spoke her name in years

So marry me, sweet thing, won't you marry me?
Your mama thinks I beat
Anything she's ever seen
Well, this old town's alright with me
There's nowhere I'd rather be
Long as they stay mad at one another
Well, they can't get mad at me, let's go

I don't want anything I done
To be nobody's fault
Even if they got more money and
Mouth than they got balls
That's just how it went down, right or wrong
It's just that way
And just 'cause I don't run my mouth
Don't mean I got nothing to say

So marry me, sweet thing, won't you marry me?
Your momma thinks I beat
Anything she's ever seen
This old town's alright with me
There's nowhere I'd rather be
Long as they stay mad at one another
They can't get mad at me

So marry me, sweet thing, won't you marry me?
Marry me, sweet thing, won't you marry me?