Just an Answer

Jan was a cross turned upside down

She would hang like a thunder in the sky

I only kissed a few girls in this town

My dad still calls me, wonderin' why

But I've been half asleep since sundown

Half awake since Sunday night

And I don't think I have an answer

For the good ones in my life

We had a few things to get right

So we stuck around town 'til we got bored

We traded James Brown for the same old Lorde

And we packed our backpacks for four hundred miles of road

We stumbled through our teens

Toward a bus that took us through green to green

To bars where the babes throw up on piles of gold

Piles of gold, piles of gold, yeah, I know

A pile of gold is gonna get you to the land where the light

From your baby sitter cigarette goes

But I've been half asleep since sundown

I've been half awake since Sunday night

And I think I'll hitch roll across this ditch road

Cross this ditch road to get my money right

So I crawled back into the graveyard where I woke this morning

Shoveling up the day

And I whispered to the body by me that

I dig her but don't love her in that way

'Cause I got folks to pay and other folks to say

The things that got me to feeling big, sir

And I got other folks to pay and my friends that say

"Hey, man, I heard you got your dick sucked"

Hallelujah, hallelujah

And an angel cut my hair off and a landlord put a price tag on my head

And your time's ain't come today

But I heard my older brother say the gun god is dead

Then my sister said that she heard the same

And then my mother came and she put us all to bed

So turn out the lights

So early tonight

And under the covers we would go searching to find

An answer for the good ones in our lives

And it's an answer, I ain't looking for a wife

Just an answer, aw, just an answer

Just an answer for the good ones in our lives

Just an answer (Just an answer)

Just an answer (Just an answer)

Just an answer for the good ones alive tonight