Drive-By Truckers - One of These Days lyrics

If I had a dime for every time
I heard my old man say one of these days
I wouldn't be like my old man today
Talking bout places that he'd been
Back in his younger days that he
Was gonna go back to again one of these days

Dropped out of school when
He was just sixteen
Fell right in to a tire plant
Building the very things that
Make the asphalt sing
And put Alabama far behind you
I remember him saying that Chicago was
A hell right here on earth
And twenty five years later I was
Saying the same thing about Memphis

It's no wonder everybodies scared
Of downtown Birmingham
It's just a little too close to home


But there's more crooks down here
And the cops don't care
While old white men wearing ties
Can do anything they want

Once a country boy's seen the
Way the steam rises
Off a man's insides on the sidewalk
Tends to change the way he thinks
The way he sees everything
And he goes back to where he came from

One of these days when my face looks like
A roadmap gonna find my way back home
And i'll go walking on the
West side after dark
And leave my gun locked in my car
One of these days you'll take one look at me
And run one of these days you'll take
One look at me and run