"outlaw overture" lyrics

Can't shut me up
I put my faith in a loaded gun, they
Try to cut me down
I was raised in a dying town, yeah

I miss my drugs
They've been my friends since twenty-one, still
I'm burning out
You'll probably die before I make you proud, yeah

All the pages are blank till my life goes to shit
I know I do that on purpose just to write again

Paint my car black (Paint it black)
Burn my last check (Burn it all)
Lose all contact (Gone again)
Fake my own death (Fuck it all)
Make me feel like I'm alive (Yeah)

Run, rebel, run
Don't let them turn you into what they want, I'm
Bad to the bone
Two wheels and the body's chrome, yeah

My speech still slurs
I started drinking after I left church, but
I still can't sleep
This medication doesn't work on me, no

Paint my car black (Paint it black)
Burn my last check (Burn it all)
Lose all contact (Gone again)
Fake my own death (Fuck it all)
Make me feel like I'm alive
Make me feel like I'm alive (Yeah, yeah)

Take me somewhere cheap
Where the livin' is easy
Out of all their reach
Set my spirit free

I feel
Confined by societal norms
I was born to walk the line
Survived bein' insecure
But it led to my decline

This time I don't think I'll turn back
This time I'ma do shit my way
I'm gone by the time they come back
This route is a one-road highway
Same face in a brand new wardrobe
My old clothes in gasoline
Smoke hand-rolled cigs, I'm an old soul
I feel just like James Dean

Take me somewhere cheap
Where the livin' is easy
Out of all their reach
Set my spirit free

What's left behind
What's left behind
Can't take it with me
Nothing's left behind
Nothing's left behind
Can't take it with me

Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm