Drive-by Truckers One Of These Days Lyrics

One Of These Days Lyrics

If I had a dime for every time I heard my old man say



one of these days



I wouldn't be like my old man today



talking bout places that he'd been



back in his younger days that he was gonna go back to again



one of these days







Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen



fell right in to a tire plant



building the very things that make the asphalt sing



and put Alabama far behind you







I remember him saying that Chicago was a hell right here on earth



and twenty five years later I was saying the same thing about Memphis







It's no wonder everybodies scared of downtown Birmingham



it's just a little too close to home



But there's more crooks down here and the cops don't care,



while old white men wearing ties can do anything they want.







Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises



off a man's insides on the sidewalk



Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything



and he goes back to where he came from







One of these days when my face looks like a roadmap gonna find my way back
home.



And i'll go walking on the west side after dark and leave my gun locked in my
car.



One of these days you'll take one look at me and run. One of these days you'll
take



one look at me and run.







lyrics by Mike Cooley / music by Drive-by Truckers