Ride On Out A Ways - David Bromberg, John Hiatt

We know how it could be, baby

Somebody’s been bluffing all their lives

All of a sudden feels compelled to tell you the truth

I never gave two thoughts about it, maybe

Now you can’t shut them up

It’s like you’re a priest hearing their confessions

On a misspent youth

And you’d like them to tell them some damn thing, baby

But what in the world would be that thing to say

And things quiet down 'round here

Let’s you and I slip around, saddle up and ride on out of the way

And you know how it can be, darling

Somebody’s always showing up with a cake and candle

On a day you just assumed let slip by

Admit it, you’d be hurt if they forget about you, baby

But every year it gets a little harder

Thinking about where and how and when

You’re gonna have to say goodbye

And they just keep on coming down, baby

They just keep coming, cutting you a big old slice of this day

When things quiet down 'round here

As you and I slip around, saddle up and ride on out of the way

And I’d love to tell you something, I’d love to tell you something, baby

But whatever would be the right thing to say, hell, I don’t know

When things quiet down 'round here

Let’s you and I slip around, saddle up and ride on out of the way

When things quiet down 'round here, baby

As you and I slip around, saddle up and ride on out of the way

Yeah, when things settle down 'round here, baby

Let’s you and I slip around, saddle up and ride on out of the way