Hank Williams' Ghost

In the early morning hours

Just before you're wide awake

Before you summons all your powers

To cover up your big mistake

When all the coulda woulda beens

Collide with shoulda knowns

And all your raging angst hillbilly sins

Have an order all their own

But it's all right, it's okay

You learn to look the other way

Life is short, life is long

Hey, get your guitar and sing this song

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die

Now you're kicking back the covers, yeah

Now you're ready to make your stand

You never ever really ever really ever thought

That you were quite like all the others

No, you had promise in your hands

And you studied truth and honor

Oh, but you did not pass the test

Oh, up in heaven you're a goner

Seems you're as human as the rest

Well, it's all right, it's okay

Yeah, you learn to stand some other way

Back on your knees or on your back

Hey, take one last breath and fade to black

And die, die, die, die, die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die

Nobody said it would be easy

Nobody said it had to be this hard

Oh, it's hard

And when you're floating o'er the mountain

With the living world below

They're so full of hope and they're so full of wanting

Most of which they'll never know

But you have heard the angels singing

Hell, they're singing to you yet

Oh, take the gifts that they are bringing

They may be all that you get

Well, it's all right, it's okay

Yeah, you'll be a saint some other day

Fare thee well, adios

Yeah, we hurt the ones we love the most

We hurt the ones we love the most

And we blame it on Hank Williams' ghost