Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.