A Black Hearse Following Me

I’m out ridin’ in the too fast lane

And it’s party time every night

The whole town’s talkin’ and sayin’ I’m crazy

I ain’t got my head on right

Well I been out tonkin’ for a week or more

I’m a sorry old site to see

Runnin’ wide open throttle in a long neck bottle

With a black hearse a followin’ me

Chorus:

I’m a lonely old man and a fightin’ pain

The best way that I know how

But this honky tonk stuff it just ain’t enough

And Lord take a look at me now

I’m bottled out bound and almost down

Tryin’ to drown a memory

Runnin wide open throttle in a long neck bottle

With a black hearse a followin’ me

Well I have loved and I have lost

And that makes a crazy old man

So I’m out doin’ what the losers do

A doin’ the best I can

Let the neon shine let the juke box whine

I’m right here where she said I’d be

Runnin’ wide open throttle in a long neck bottle

With a black hearse a followin’ me

Chorus:

I’m a lonely old man and a fightin’ pain

The best way that I know how…

A man can’t live the way I do

Thinkin’ with a 90 proof head

A honky tonk high will get you down

You’ll wake up a grave yard dead

She’s still there in my whiskey glass

And I ain’t memory free

Runnin’ wide open throttle in a long neck bottle

With a black hearse a followin’ me

Chorus:

I’m a lonely old man and a fightin’ pain

The best way that I know how…

Repeat last line:

Runnin’ wide open throttle in a long neck bottle

With a black hearse a followin’ me