Just an Answer - State Champion

Jan was a cross turned upside down

She would hang like a thunder in the sky

I only kissed a few gals in this town

My dad still calls me wondering 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 until we got bored

We traded James Brown for the same ol' Lord

And packed our backpacks full of four hundred miles of road

We stumbled through our teens toward a bus

That took us through Cabrini Green to the bars

Where the babes throw up on piles of gold and yea I know

A pile of gold ain’t going to get you to the land

Where the light from your babysitter’s cigarette goes

It may someday Lord

But I’ve been half asleep since sundown

I’ve been half awake since Sunday night

And I forgot which road crosses which road

Where to meet my man 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 feeling mixed up

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

«Hey man I heard you got your dick sucked» Hallelujah

Had an angel cut my hair off

And a landlord put a price out on my head

And the New York Times didn’t come today

But I heard my older brother say that «God is dead»

And 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

Under the covers we would go searching

For an answer for the good ones in our lives

Tiny dancer I ain’t looking for a wife

Just an answer for the good ones in our lives

Just an answer for the good ones left tonight