Only God Knows My Name

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I am the victim of a violent love affair
Daddy drove off in the middle of the night
Took his bottle, left his wife

You know mama tried, yeah she tried real hard
But nobody wants a used up woman
Not in this town anyhow

She took to the bottle, just like my dear old dad
Pulled a .9mm to the temple of her head
And the hearse came rollin' in

Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name

The state of Mississippi took my old folk's home
Left me with a bag of Alabama records
And a Mickey Mouse telephone

I spent one night's rest in an abandoned Gran Torino
Took some gasoline to my inheritance
And warmed my hand by the devil's fire

Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name
Only God knows my name

Ain't nobody knows I'm real
Ain't nobody knows I'm here
Ain't no eyes going to recognize
My thick, black hair or big, blue eyes
Don't pay me no mind
Don't pay me no mind

Gotta fix me a job, but I ain't educated
The only books I got have twenty-one matches
Or fifty-two playing cards

I hop from train to train, I keep the car real clean
Mama didn't raise no sinner man
I ain't ever going to shake the devil's hand

One of these days, God going to take his turn on me
Until the day my kingdom come
I'll be waiting here to take my name

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from Mississippi Rail Company (EP), released June 15, 2010

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