Same Old Song

was just a young man working steady in a good time band

Picking every single lick I could just to please the man

Harlan sang the lead for half and we split up the rest

Hanging on through the heavy times and hoping for the best

And I can't recall the names of all them places that we played in

And all them squirrely party girls and pills we used to pop

Hardly ever sleepin' in them cheap motels we stayed in

Hoping we could take it till we'd make it to the top

And them nights got a little bit brighter

And them bars got a little bit better

And the sweet just a little bit sweeter

But them blues well it's still the same old song

Now we're stars a shining on them prime-time TV shows

Every stranger knows our name in ever-little-where we go

Findin' out the bottom ain't so diffrent from the top

Just a few more friends that you'll be losin' when you drop

And I left some of my soul on every sweaty sheet I could sleep on

Gettin' just as close to anybody as I could

But I don't regret a single bed I've laid my body down on

Ever since the first I had the worst I had was good

And them nights git a little bit brighter

And them bars git a little bit better

And the sweet just a little bit sweeter

But them blues well it's still the same old song