Train - Son of a Prison Guard lyrics

There was a mountain on the table
Of bills that needed pay
Dishes in the kitchen sink
Like dreams that never fade
A wild imagination, convicts in the yard
Never enough time to make ends meet
So they put it on a credit card
Don't we all?

You may not know just where you came
From but once upon a time
There was a carpenter, a bartender
A broken fishing line
Just south of royalty in the
Town that I came from
There were architects and astronauts
But the only one she loved was a prison guard
And that's the only time I ever saw true love

America's a girl I liked in Georgia
London kept me warm up in Eugene
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
Cause finding love for me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard

There's a gate that needed painting
Clothes that needed clean
They'd say there's time enough for that when
The fun has all been seen
Cause when we're laying on our death bed
A promise we won't say
Wish we would have worked more, baby
Instead of loving you that way, no way

Sedona is a girl I met in Brooklyn
Paris got me close in New Orleans
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
Cause finding love for me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard

I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are, whoever you are
I go wherever you are

Betty is a girl I knew in Charlotte
Jordan left for Sydney yesterday
I guess my mother bless her heart
Set the bar too high to start
Cause finding love for me is just too hard
For a son of a prison guard