Cory Jo

Take it back now Cory Jo
I am on your side you know
I would never turn you in
Take it back now what you did
What is happening in your head
You look cornered in that wildcat grin

Painted your old pickup truck
Silver like a spaceship
And now you want to take me for a ride
But you look like a pipe’s
About to burst inside your furnace
And I ain’t about to be burned up in that fire

Peeking out your windows
Not answering your front door
Calling me up every night
Sneaking round my backyard
You’re looking inside out and charred
Like the winter trees thirsting
For the winter sky

Giving me that look
Like you could read me like a brail book
But are your fingers calloused hard
Are we gonna wind up like that Texas man
Had the world’s hardest hands
like some fire had burned him up from inside
for a long time

Take it back now Cory Jo
I am on your side you know
I would never turn you in
Take it back now what you did
What is happening in my head
You got me cornered in your wildcat grin

Winter 2000
Midwest Tour