Son of a Prison Guard

There was a mountain on the table of bills that needed pay
 Dishes in the kitchen sink like dreams that never fade
 A wild imagination of convicts in the yard
 Never enough time to make ends meet
 So they put it on a credit card
 Don't we all?
 You may not know just where you came from, but once upon a time
 There was a carpenter, a bartender, a broken fishing line
 Just south of royalty in the town that I came from
 There were architects and astronauts
 But the only one she loved was a prison guard
 And that's the only time I ever saw true love
 America's a girl I liked from Georgia
 London kept me warm up in Eugene
 I guess my mother, bless her heart
 Set the bar too high to start
 What's fine enough for me is just too hard
 The son of a prison guard
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 There's a gate that needed painting, clothes that needed clean
 They'd say there's time enough for that when the fun has all been seen
 'Cause when we're laying on our deathbed, a promise we won't say
 Wish we would have worked more, baby
 Instead of loving you that way, no way
 And that's the only time I ever saw true love
 Sedona is a girl I met in Brooklyn
 Paris got me close in New Orleans
 I guess my mother, bless her heart
 Set the bar too high to start
 What's fine enough for me is just too hard
 The son of a prison guard
 I go wherever you are, whoever you are
 I go wherever you are, whoever you are
 I go wherever you are, whoever you are
 I go wherever you are
 Serenity is a girl I knew in Charlotte
 Jordan left for Sydney yesterday
 I guess my mother, bless her heart
 Set the bar too high to start
 What's fine enough for me is just too hard
 The son of a prison guard
 Whoever you are