Longer I Run - Hammer Down

I'm always runnin' behind

I don't know what it is

I'm guessin' that old Nissan engine

Got something to do with it

Like the day we broke down

Way out over on

The high roller side of town

Took all our money

To get our wheels back on the ground

There's not a doubt in my mind

I'll be seein' you soon

Lord knows I've been drivin'

The early mornin' into the afternoon

And don't you send me no trouble

'Cause I'll be there in time

There's too many shadows

Out on those county roads tonight

And the longer I run (longer he runs)

And the more I grow tired

From chasing a feelin' (chasing a feelin')

Of a restless numb kind (it's so kind)

But the longer I stay (ooh, ooh)

Within the more of a mess

I tend to make (what a mess he makes)

I ain't leavin'

I just don't feel like comin' home today

No, no

All of my life

I have been dreamin'

Of a way to keep my years of self-abuse

From gettin' even

Today, I saw an eagle

Flying over a crimson evening sun

Like a vision that this livin'

Is far from just begun

Ooh, and the longer I run (longer he runs)

And the more I grow tired

From chasing a feelin' (chasing a feelin')

Of a restless numb kind (it's so kind)

But the longer I stay (ooh, ooh)

Within the more of a mess

I tend to make (what a mess he makes)

I ain't leavin'

I just don't feel like comin' home today

Oh, oh-oh, I ain't leavin', I just don't feel like comin' home today

Hmm, mm, not today

Standing outside now

Out of the house

Now nothin' goes in

And nothin' comes out

All that to say

It's like I've been here before

A caught staring at the wrong side of the door

And I, I can't shake a feelin'

There's a gun at my back

I could pray for survival

With a hand on a Bible

But God only knows

What is or ain't broke

So go on lay the steel hammer down

Well, there I have done it again

Locked my keys in the car

And that's why today

I probably won't get too far

I could tell you a story

Of a luckier man, I wouldn't know where to start

But I've seen where it ends

And I, I don't want no trouble

I'm just tryin' to get by

It seems longer you ramble

And the harder you handle

And God only knows

If I'll ever get home

So go on lay the steel hammer down

Go on, on and on

And lay the steel hammer down

Hmm, mm-mm-mm