Lyrics Saving Face - Shakey Graves

Saving Face

Come 20 days when you get married
I’ll go a wanderin' away
I don’t think I can save face honestly enough
To make it through the day
She likes to dream that I’m still there
But baby I am homeless
Damn I love the moments
That got me right out of town
Livin' with my family
Damn I was so happy
Why did I leave that hallowed ground
But ain’t life sweet
Go tell the father his daughter’s pregnant
Yeah she’s gonna have a baby boy
Hell come out drinkin', cussin', and stinkin'
Yeah that’s our little bundle of joy
Cause daddy can’t forget all his enemies and debts
Yeah they chase him round and sour dreams
Like tied up to a tree my family and me just keep runnin' round
In circles that we’ve left
Don’t you run away if your body wants to stay
You know it loves me more than you ever could
Somethin' bout your taste is such a sad thing to waste
If I could bottle you know I surely would
But ain’t life sweet
Please ask the doctor to stop the pain yeah my time in this world has expired
Please ask the doctor to stop the pain yeah my time in this world has expired
My only bed is all made up I’m ready to be cast into the fire
So sell my belongings all my clever drawings try to make a dollar from the
Grave
Give flowers to my friends I’ll be with them to the end in them my memory
Will always remain
Ooh ain’t life sweet
Yeah ooh ain’t life sweet