Elk City

Get me outta this town
 Get me outta this dream
 I've been drinkin away
 All my money
 See I was 17
 When I came to this place
 In a boyfriend's Colt wagon on the 40 interstate
 He told me we'd be rich
 get on at the GHK company
 that the Anadarko Basin's
 where you wanted to be
 We pitched a tent in the park
 Its all we could do
 Weren't no rooms anywhere
 I hoped that job would come through
 He said just one more night
 Can you give me one more night?
 He got outta that town
 When the boom turned to bust
 Didn't say where he went
 Never told any of us
 I almost moved to Dallas
 With my best friend Kathleen
 But I met a guy at the Longhorn
 He said he could fix my washing machine
 How's tomorrow night?
 Yeah tomorrow night
 Well that night turned into 9 months
 Sitting on my ass
 Waiting for a baby
 My first and my last
 And she's all grown up now
 Got into college and everything
 So she beat her mama out of that town
 Out of Elk City
 I can only do one more night
 Just one more night
 I can only stand one more night
 Just one more night
 I can only stay one more night
 Just one more night
 Outside the Pale
 I bet you want a bargain, I hear you want to take cover
 Running like a yawn from one mouth to another
 You and I, we're blacktop rough, common as the dirt
 Sniveling into the phone, trying to help our sisters hurt
 Outside the pale
 Outside the pale
 Time is only loved at night, night is only loved at death
 The underdogs of human thought within the infrared
 You and I, we tell the stories the TV won't release
 They keep us in the wild under branch and thorn and tree
 Outside the pale
 Outside the pale
 Its such a blow to reach above, split loyalty and name
 The fence just isn't real but to this very modern day
 All you see is sex and property, when we run this damn machine
 Holding all the riches but it still feels like a dream
 Outside the pale
 Outside the pale