Peace of Mind

He drinks orange juice and vodka
 In the basement while she's talkin'
 To someone long distance
 For hours and hours on end
 And as he's slowly sippin'
 He thinks about his children
 And the heart attacks that youngest daughter's
 Always given him
 He ain't smoke no marijuana
 Since he got on with the railroad
 And he's been on with the railroad for
 A long and loathsome while
 But the day that he retires
 He'll smoke himself to China
 He'll leave behind his worries
 As he races through the skies
 The days are dark
 Down in the holler
 Waitin' for the sun to shine
 On the back
 You have been breakin'
 Tryin' to earn
 A peace of mind
 She sells Avon to her buddies
 And saves a little money
 On the makeup she's been using
 To hide away the years
 And she sits and watches TV
 Usually every evening
 That there ain't some kind of ballgame
 That her daughter has to cheer
 She sneaks menthols in the mornin'
 While her family's still a snorin'
 And as she burns the Eggos
 She looks back at her life
 That heart she broke in high school
 He is singin' on the Opry
 She wonders what the hell that she was thinkin at the time
 The days are dark
 Down in the holler
 Waitin' for the sun to shine
 On the back
 You have been breakin'
 Tryin' to earn
 A peace of mind
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 Their youngest daughter Stella
 She's runnin' with this fella
 That he can not stand the thought of
 That he surely does despise
 He's told her he best never
 See the two of them together
 But it's hard to keep an eye on her
 When you're workin' all the time
 There are things he needs to tend to
 And the bills the bank keeps sendin'
 Lord the zeroes on the end
 Keep pushing further to the right
 Like a freight train haulin' sorrow
 And movin' ever onward
 Through the tunnel of forever
 To the never endin' light