"To Keep From Being Found" lyrics - HAYES CARLL

HAYES CARLL
"To Keep From Being Found"
(Hayes Carll / Pat McLaughlin)

I bought myself a tall boy
And some cigarettes
I'm gonna climb into this old truck
And get as far as I can get
Go looking for a motel room
One with an actual key
The old kind
I used to find
Where you pay by the week

Gonna hang up a couple pictures
Above that rotary phone
The one on which I'm not expecting
Too many calls from home
Gonna find me a movie
One that makes me laugh
Roll around that old TV
So I can watch it in the bath

[Chorus:]
I can't remember where I had my breakfast
Probably some old run-down diner
In a broken motor town
But I ain't ever going back to Texas
I'll pay the cost
Of being lost
Just to keep from being found

I really like my lawyer
He's a hell of a guy
He spreads the love
And he ain't above
Watching a grown man cry
I don't have to worry
'Bout whose side he's on
He'll be my friend
Until the end
Or 'til the money's all gone

[Chorus:]
I can't remember where I had my breakfast
Maybe Southeast Oklahoma
Or some backwoods Arky town
But I ain't ever going back to Texas
There's a girl down there in Texas
Who does not want me around

[Outro:]
I ain't ever going back to Texas
I'll pay the cost
Of being lost
Just to keep from being found