Jason Isbell - Different Days lyrics

Staring at the pictures of the
Runaways on the wall seems like these days
You couldn't run away at all
And even if you did
What you got to run away to?
Just another drunk daddy with a
White man's point of view
I can see you in my mind's eye
Catching light
Sleep beside the river if we make
It out of town tonight
You can strip in Portland from
The day you turn 16
You got one thing to sell and benzodiazepine

Ten years ago, i might have seen you dancing
In a different light
And offered up my help in different ways

But those were different days
Those were different days

Had a girl back home
And we shared a single bed
When I whispered in her ear
She believed every word I said
And if she didn't believe
She didn't dare give me slack
Or It was "baby I love you
Get off of my goddamn back"
Time went by, and I left, and I left again
Jesus loves a sinner
But the highway loves a sin
My daddy told me, I believe he told me true
That the right thing's always the
Hardest thing to do

Ten years ago
I might have stuck around for another night
And used her in a thousand different ways

But those were different days
Those were different days

And the story's only mine to
Live and die with
And the answer's only mine to come across
But the ghosts that I got scared
And I got high with look a little lost

Ten years ago
I might have thought I didn't have the right
To say the things an outlaw wouldn't say

But those were different days
Those were different days
Those were different days