Girls, Gather 'Round - Live Songtext
von The Milk Carton Kids

I′ve got plenty more where that came from too

Don't you let the lessons stop, time ain′t just hands on a clock
That's what I'm gonna tell pop when I leave
It′s a vision on the lonely road, it′s something that I've gotta know
If I could drive this car all on my own

I guess I′ll leave my girl behind, I should have done that long ago
Sometimes I'm sure the pain will go away
It wasn′t working anyhow, the burners on the stove burnt out
A shame I didn't figure it out before

Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Sing along with me before I go
Let us have a drink and, by god
Don′t let us think about the things that we ain't never gonna know

I met a man in San Francisco
He told me he did the same thing fifty years ago, he left his girl behind
Now he sits there in the park, one hand is strumming his guitar
Songs he found inside a bottle of wine


I saw the same things on his face
The ones that made me race away from everything I'd ever really known
The scare to take responsibility from here and put her there
Where everyone can see the seeds you′ve sown

Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Sing along with me before I go
Let us have a drink and, by god
Don′t let us think about the things that we ain't never gonna know
(Here′s my solo)

Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Sing along with me before I go (thank you very much)
Let us have a drink and, by god
Don't let us think about the things that we ain′t never gonna know

If you think about the creature that you might have thought would
Teach you, that our hearts, they're just nothing, right from the start
It would keep us from the worries, safe from sound and safe from fury
Safe at home besides the ones we know we loved

And if you′d told me from the start that I could never be apart from her
I'd tell you, "Go to hell, get out of my way"
Now I've come back with my tail between my legs
I didn′t know the way a man, can′t be a man all on his own


Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
I'll sing a song I learned out on the road
Let us have a drink but still, by god
Don′t let us think about the things that we ain't never gonna know

The sun is going down on this lonesome town
But I got you here to keep my company
Did you ever have the feeling that we′re living for a reason?
For that reason, I won't ever let you go

Did you ever have the feeling that we′re living for a reason?
For that reason, I won't never let you go
For that reason, I won't never let you go
For that reason, I won′t never let you go
For that reason, I won′t never let you go