Different Days

Staring at the picture of the runaways on the wall
 Seems like these day you couldn't run away at all
 And even if you did, what you got to run away to
 Just another drunk daddy with a white man's point of view
 I can see you in my mind's eye catching light
 Sleep beside the river if we make it out of town tonight
 You've been stripping Portland since the day you turned 16
 You got one thing to sell benzodiazepine
 Ten years ago I might have seen you dancing in a different light
 And offered up my help in different way
 But those were different days
 Those were different days
 Had a girl back home and we shared as single bed
 When I whispered in her ear she believed every word I said
 And if she didn't believe she didn't dare give me slack
 Or It was "baby I love you, get off of my God damn back"
 Time went by and I left and I left again
 Jesus loves a sinner but the highway love a sin
 My daddy told me I believe he told me true
 That the right things always the hardest thing to do
 Ten years ago I might stuck around for another night
 And user her in a thousand different ways
 But those were different days
 Those were different days
 And the stories only mine to live and die with
 And the answers only mine to come across
 But the ghost that I got scared and I got high with
 Look a little lost
 Ten years ago I might thought I didn't have the right
 To say the things an outlaw wouldn't say
 But those were different days
 Those were different days
 Those were different days