Nashville Radio

Drink and pills and Nashville radio

Life will never be the same

Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico

Riding on my funeral train

In every town there's the same tribulation

Every state I wake up in

The night before was a dim recollection

Of powders and bottles and sin

There's a bald little stranger heading out the door

Just about half my age

Blood on the walls, glass on the floor

I don't think I even made it on stage

I said, "Doctor, doctor, sign my prescription

I'm in trouble again"

Ever since I was a tiny little baby

I couldn't get rid of the pain

I shake my hips but I walk like a cripple

And my body is getting too thin

I can count every one of my bones in the mirror

Poking through my cold white skin

There's a shiny star on the dressing room door

But I'll be out in the back of my car

'Cause I don't know a soul I can trust with the money

Or to tune up my guitar

Drink and pills and Nashville radio

Life will never be the same

Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico

Riding on my funeral train

I can't sleep without the engine humming

And the wheels rolling night and day

Well, I can't sleep without the Nashville radio

Slipping through my chemical haze

Play some song that I remember

With the DJ calling my name

If they play my songs on the Nashville radio

Life will never be the same

I said, "Doctor, doctor, sign my prescription

I'm in trouble again"

Ever since I was a tiny little baby

I couldn't get rid of the pain

Ever since I was a tiny little baby

I couldn't get to sleep at night

Be listening to that Nashville radio

Hours before daylight

They threw me off the glass-board opry

'Cause I couldn't behave

I never knew how many friends I had

'Til I was lying in a cold, dark grave

I gave my life to country music

I took my pills and lost

Now they don't play my songs on the radio

It's like I never was

That sweaty cop in an Alabama lock-up

Looked at me and he laughed

He'd heard my songs on the Nashville radio

He asked me for my autograph

He said, "Doctor, doctor, sign my prescription

I'm in trouble again"

Ever since I was a tiny little baby

I couldn't get rid of the pain

Drink and pills and Nashville radio

Life will never be the same

Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico

Riding on my funeral train