It’s joy and misery every time
It seems you’ve got to prove it
Like an old cat having kittens
You just crawl under the porch and do it
Spittin’ out words a whole lot faster
Than you can even write ‘em down
And every time you’ve got to believe
It’s the sermon on the mount
Tooth and nail
Fireball mail
A runaway train
In a driving rain
Whoa, comin’ off the rail
Tooth and nail
It’s a raven perched on a window sill
On a cold and stormy day
It’s the sign of the times written on
A one-string fiddle or a Steinway
It’s a mandolin in an angel’s hand
Playing “The Wreck of Old ’97”
Or a prayer to the gods to send me some lightning
From a distant heaven
Tooth and nail
Fireball mail
A runaway train
In a pouring rain
Whoa, comin’ off the rail
Tooth and nail
It’s Wrecks’s Old Quarter on a Saturday night
With a young Hayes tendin’ bar
It’s Baptist church on a Sunday morning
With a hungover choir
It’s a young girl named Jaimee
Who’s a little high-strung
She got a tattoo on her right arm
Of the poet who wrote lungs
Tooth and nail
Fireball mail
A runaway train
In a driving rain
Whoa, comin’ off the rail
Tooth and nail
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