Throwing the Goats - Hard Working Americans

Something wrong with the rider

Bless his high lonesome heart

But I guess this whole wide world

Is always pulling apart

As he was dynamite fishing

For some compliments

Off the banks of old Lake Providence

For some unknown actress

Such a tender soul

But I’ll always shake back for a speaking role

They fully praying for some kind of break

He freed that rag and pillar gonna shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

I am a bull of a man

And I cannot be stopped

Until I’m stabbed in a ring

On account of that china shop

My baby’s backstage

And she’s higher than I am

We got all the integrity that money can buy

And if you can’t audition, mama

You cannot act

That’s a goat-throwing truth, fully natural fact

If you got it we need you, if you don’t we do not

Which is already more time than most people got

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

I have broken a handful

Of hearts in my time

Had a handful of people

Try to break into mine

Seen that wine covered carpet

Rolled up against the house

With the tall grass covering all my clothes thrown out, I tell you

Sometimes love takes away

What you think it’s bringing

Take my new gal, for instance, she knows everything

And she says this time it’s different like it always was

Something is changing like it never does

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

(Instrumental break)

Shake Shake

Shake Shake Shake

Shake Shake

Shake Shake Shake

Through the neon she catches his wandering eye

He can see from her makeup how she’d started to cry

So he tells her he thought that she was excellent

So she pays him a dyn-o-mite compliment

She said, your eyes shine like, oh hell, I don’t know

Seem like eyes are always shining like something I suppose

Lets just say that it’s all of those, baby

Your eyes shine like all that shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

Shake shake

Shake shake shake

They shine like diamonds

They shine like stars

They shine like pools of water

Shine like brand new cars

Shine like diamonds

Shine like stars

Shine like pools

Shine like brand new cars