One Paper Kid

Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb

Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind

Ah, the distance was short so light it again

It don't take no time to get where I am

But the one paper kid wasn't really so mean

He's just a little bit scared and a little bit green

And he'd heard of a place that was legal to dream

So he sat with his coffee and a blue Texas wind

And wrote on the rock "the one paper kid, he's rollin' again"

The driver was drunk or he just didn't see

The future was there: it'll happen to me

And all the time that he wasted was his once again

It never takes too long to go where you've been

There's broken hearts scattered all over the past

And old bad memories tryin' to last

Whiskey and women and growing up fast

Fussin' and lovin' and itchin' like grass

Hell, the one paper kid wasn't really so mean

Just a little bit weird 'cause the times were so lean

Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream

No camels, no coffee, no cold morning wind

And it's writ on the rock "the one paper kid, he's rollin' again

The one paper kid, he's rollin' again