Marry Me - Drive-By Truckers

My daddy didn’t pull out, but he never apologized

Rock and roll means well, but it can’t help telling young boys lies

A baby on the way’s a good enough reason to get you out alive

Get you out without having to swallow any pride

All my friends are restless, all they do is talk it down

Two or eight lanes, it don’t matter, it’s just another town

There’s a fool on every corner, on every street, in everyone

And I’d rather be your fool nowhere than go somewhere and be no one’s

So marry me, sweet thing, won’t you marry me?

Your momma thinks I beat anything she’s ever seen

This old town’s alright with me, there’s nowhere I’d rather be

Long as they stay mad at one another, they can’t get mad at me

Every time I leave here something bad happens to me

Like a busted hand or finding some man laying where I sleep

She don’t mean nothing to me, that’s just how it goes 'round here

It’s a cartoon town, I played my part, and I ain’t spoke her name in years

So marry me, sweet thing, won’t you marry me?

Your momma thinks I beat anything she’s ever seen

This old town’s alright with me, there’s nowhere I’d rather be

Long as they stay mad at one another, they can’t get mad at me

Don’t want anything I done to be nobody’s fault

Even if they got more money and mouth than they got balls

That’s just how it went down, right or wrong, it’s just that way

Just 'cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say

So marry me, sweet thing, won’t you marry me?

Your momma thinks I beat anything she’s ever seen

This old town’s alright with me, there’s nowhere I’d rather be

Long as they stay mad at one another, they can’t get mad at me