"Jukebox Blues (For Blaze Foley)" lyrics

Hey honky tonk, you don't get me
To you I'm only some jukebox in your room
Back in this corner where you left me
Playing all night for a bunch of wild buffoons

Don't you think I'd like a drink of wine
Sit up at the bar and have myself a time
But I just stay in the shadows
Cheap tobacco goes rolling through my mind

Now I was born in some old factory
Where they stamped me and threw me in the truck
They hauled me down to Tallahassee
For 17 years I've sat here in a rut

Don't you think I'd like to go down town
Rent a Cadillac and cruise it all around
But I know I'm never leaving
I'm only dreaming and I can't make a sound

And there'll come a day when I quit working
My backs been hurting, I know it won't be long
Yeah I can feel the angels circling
I pray I go out on a Merle Haggard song

Something like If I Could Only Fly
Sing Me Back Home or Mamas Hungry Eyes
Mine was gone before I knew her
Some tavern took her, I wish we'd said goodbye

Hey honky tonk, you don't get me
To you I'm only some jukebox in your room