Lyrics The Love That Never Fails - Jim White

The Love That Never Fails

Bus stop rain, busted power train
Got a broke down sixty nine L T D
I hocked my tools, to buy my brain
A funeral wreath from the F T D
Blank billboards on the highway of life
Counterfeit bills in the neon lights
This stick shift driven, sawdust dream
Show-biz sho' ain’t what it seems
Little hipster dufus with the guitar in a coffin
I been copping his licks about it so often
Then I flip-flop, go the other way
Yeah, I rip off the dude where the colored girls say
See, I cut my teeth on the white lines
Of life’s endless lonesome highways
Taking stock in the horizon
Shouting at every fool that come my way
I’ve been shouting
«Hey!
Can you gimme a ride?
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme a ride?
Someone gimme a ride»
But ain’t no one going my way?
Now downtown, they got the prison of shame
See the castaways of the Hollywood game
Tricked out whores with invisible pains
Cardboard people, dancing in the rain
To the same old tune
Circling like a vulture with the busted juke-box of the popular culture
If it ain’t got a beat, they won’t put you on the street
Heavy on the bass, light on the feet
I meet the street poets in the bummed out bars
I hum my single as I jingle down the «Walk of Stars»
With the geeks and the freaks and the crooks and the hookers
The burn-outs of life’s pressure cookers
Now, these are my people, my church without a steeple
Though I never waste a tissue on an incidental issue
Still I sympathize, 'cause I realize when I see the sorrow in their eyes
'Cause I cut my teeth on the white lines
Of life’s endless lonesome highways
Taking stock in the horizon
Shouting at every fool that come my way
I’ve been shouting
«Hey!
Can you gimme a ride?
Are you going my way?
Hey!
Hey!
Can you gimme a ride?
Someone gimme a ride»
But ain’t no one going my way?
Now in the field of mind
I’m plowing the topsoil of my memory
Digging up bones and skeletons, rusty relics from my past
Gotta put a new shine on the twists of time, redefine this old cemetery
Clear out the weeds, sow new seeds, sure I’m scared
But still I’m gonna carry on
'Cause never did a body find their way home
Without showing first firm as a stone
The conviction, the strength, the courage
That it takes to make a journey start
For you got to be true, you got to be strong
'Specially when the long road home
Leads smack through the smoking ruins of your broken heart
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
See, I cut my teeth on the white lines
Of life’s endless lonesome highway
Taking stock in the horizon
Shouting at every fool that come my way
I’ve been shoutin'
«Hey!
Can you gimme a ride?
Are you going my, are you going my
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme a ride?
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme me a ride?
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme me a ride?»
But ain’t no one going my way?
«Hey!
Can you gimme a ride?
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme me a ride?
Are you going my way?
Can you gimme me a ride?»
But ain’t no one going my way?
But ain’t no one going my way?
Ain’t no one going my way, see?
Now, ain’t no one going my way?
Ain’t no one going my way, yeah?
Ain’t no one going my way, yeah?
Ain’t no one going my way?