Switchblade Lovers

Barefoot on the porch

Warm beers in the rain

To you old crazy Janey

Couldn't hold a flame

We were stoning at the pony

Summer seventy five

Juke joints, pier lights

And hemi powered drives

Slow dancing 'neath the boardwalk

And Madam Marie

She said Boy you're goona burn

On your own high

Yeah Switchblade lovers like you and I

Well I worked the fields and wheels

Trying to keep my hands clean

But you're torn by what you have

And the might've been

On that road of broken promise

Hell I crossed that thin white line

I jumped Monroe just as those

Lights pulled up behind

And I felt those fading dreams

Turn to lies

From the edge of darkness

To where rivers run dry

For switchblade lovers

Like you and I

For all that I've done

There's a price you pay

Go on cage me up

And watch me waste away

If these sins to the world

Are all I leave behind

You can blame in on these

Ties that wouldn't bind

I could've died a thousand times

But to the good lord I was sworn

They threw the keys around the time

Of the second born

Was that you in the black bandana

Hand in hand with another man

Did we share a smile

That night at the meadowlands

Well I wondered but knew

Best let sleeping dogs lie

Cause these days of glory

Rise then pass on by

For switchblade lovers

Like you and I

Oh switchblade lover

Good luck, good bye