Different Days

Staring at the picture of the runaways on the wall

Seems like these day you couldn’t run away at all

And even if you did, what you got to run away to

Just another drunk daddy with a white man’s point of view



I can see you in my mind’s eye catching light

Sleep beside the river if we make it out of town tonight

You’ve been stripping Portland since the day you turned 16

You got one thing to sell benzodiazepine



Ten years ago I might have seen you dancing in a different light

And offered up my help in different way

But those were different days

Those were different days



Had a girl back home and we shared as single bed

When I whispered in her ear she believed every word I said

And if she didn’t believe she didn’t dare give me slack

Or It was “baby I love you, get off of my God damn back”



Time went by and I left and I left again

Jesus loves a sinner but the highway love a sin

My daddy told me I believe he told me true

That the right things always the hardest thing to do



Ten years ago I might stuck around for another night

And user her in a thousand different ways

But those were different days

Those were different days



And the stories only mine to live and die with

And the answers only mine to come across

But the ghost that I got scared and I got high with

Look a little lost



Ten years ago I might thought I didn’t have the right

To say the things an outlaw wouldn’t say

But those were different days

Those were different days

Those were different days