The Company I Keep
Album(s): Pizza Deliverance, Pizza Deliverance (rerelease),Sung by: Patterson Hood
Written by: Patterson Hood
My Mama told me, "Your life is such a wreck,"
"You're dumber than dogshit" is what my Daddy said.
I was just thirteen when they showed me the door,
I keep their picture, but don't look at it no more.
My first wife told me "You need to get a life."
My third wife told me to get another wife.
I brought a bottle and the van's parked right outside the door.
So come on out with me, if you want to be number four.
Sometimes I feel like shit.
Sometimes that ain't half of it.
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep.
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep.
Ain't held down no job since 1984.
I get by holding up convenience stores.
And I get by on liquor, guns and luck.
I'm scared to death which one might run out first.
Sometimes I feel like shit.
Sometimes that ain't half of it.
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep.
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep.
I seen my past in everything that I despise.
I've seen my future and I'm scared to close my eyes.
Is that my ghost that I see in my fears,
or just my reflection in my Mama's tears?
Sometimes I feel like shit.
Sometimes that ain't half of it.
Sometimes I'm so high I'm scared to go to sleep.
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep.
Sometimes I'm lower than the company I keep.
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.