There was a mountain on the table of bills that needed paid Dishes in the kitchen sink like dreams that never fade 
A wild imagination of convicts in the yard 
Never enough time to make ends meet 
So they put it on a credit card, don’t we all? 
You may not know just where you came from, but once upon a time 
There was a carpenter, a bartender, a broken fishing line 
Just south of Royal Teeth in the town that I came from 
There were architects and astronauts 
But the only one she loved was a prison guard 

And that’s the only time I ever saw true love 

And Erica’s a girl I liked in Georgia 
Alone and kept me warm in Eugene 
I guess my mother loved too hard 
Set the bar too high to the sky
What’s fine enough to me is just too hard 
For a son of a prison guard 

There’s a gate that needed painting, clothes that needed clean They’d say there’s time enough for that when the fun has all been seen
Cause when we’re laying on our death bed, a promise we won’t say 
Wish we would have worked more, baby
Instead of loving you that way, no way 

And that’s the only time I ever saw true love 

Segourney is a girl I met in Brooklyn 
Herris got me close in New Orleans 
I guess my mother loved too hard 
Set the bar too high to the sky 
What’s fine enough to me is just too hard 
For a son of a prison guard 

I go wherever you are, whoever you are 
I go wherever you are, whoever you are 
I go wherever you are, whoever you are 
I go wherever you are 

Betty is a girl I knew in Charlotte … 
left for Sydney yesterday 
I guess my mother loved too hard 
Set the bar too high to the sky 
What’s fine enough to me is just too hard For a son of a prison guard Whoever you are