We've come a long way
since those drunk days
on backroads
You and your high hopes
always stayed down
You always saw the best in me
High in Yosemite we hide
Now I'm driving through Reno
Those goddamn casinos
You always kept God close
Except that time
you bet it all on black
Came back to the room
with twenty grand
And you were smiling
like a thief
with your cheek tearing teeth
You was praying to Jesus
we was running from the police
They're using my muses
to make fun of me
And you're face up
while your blood sucks
from an IV
We spent it all on gasoline
PCH to Cannon Beach
Laid in the sand and man
I have never seen
Something more beautiful
than you and your cannonball
And we've come a long way
since that shit band
at the Blue List
You said anything other
than another fucking cover
of only the good die young
You were smiling like a thief
with your cheek tearing teeth
You was praying to Jesus
We was running from the police
They covered all the songs
that are best kept alone
'Cause your cannonball sits
on Cannon Beach alone
And they're using my muses
to make fun of me
And you're face up
as your blood sucks
from an IV
And I never thought
it'd be you
I always thought I'd beat you
to the Golden Gates
Won't you wait a few hours
there by the door
We've all been here before
but you stood up on your own
Your mom called my telephone
said you've been standing
and rambling about gambling
And howling out in the night
high in Yosemite
And you were smiling
like a thief
with your cheek tearing teeth
You was praying to Jesus
We was running from the police
They sold off the town
we used to call home
And your cannonball sits
on Cannon Beach alone
So call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There are cannonballs falling
in the heat of July
So call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There's cannonballs falling
in the heat of July
Call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There's cannonballs falling
in the heat of July
Call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There's cannonballs falling
in the heat of July
Call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There's cannonballs falling
in the heat of July
Call up your brothers
won't you take you a ride
There's cannonballs falling
in the heat of July