Anythink But Tame-Rodney Crowell

[ti:Anythink But Tame] [ar:Rodney Crowell] [al:Kin (Songs By Mary Karr Rodney Crowell)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Anythink But Tame - Rodney Crowell [00:17.59]When our feet were tough as horn [00:19.44] [00:22.14]And our eyes were sharp as flint [00:24.18] [00:26.95]And our hearts beat like two war drums [00:29.60] [00:31.38]And you tracked me by my scent [00:33.35] [00:35.87]'Cross a scape of shiny asphalt [00:37.79] [00:40.68]That blacked our soles with tar [00:42.55] [00:45.00]And we ran like brave commanches [00:47.86] [00:49.64]On a moonlit reservoir [00:51.53] [00:54.19]And you said [00:55.59]I don't wanna be tamed down [00:58.15]I just wanna saddle up [01:00.11]Ride my broomstick pony [01:01.99]Along some salt grass open plain [01:04.21] [01:05.89]On your relealize at your hang [01:07.64] [01:08.16]On the fence in your backyard [01:10.23]With your daisy pump air rifle [01:12.47]And your Annie Oakley aim [01:16.49] [01:17.68]Ah you were anything but tame [01:19.45] [01:22.28]When you'd summon me with bird calls [01:24.36] [01:26.30]Or you scratching at my screen [01:28.84] [01:31.42]Your mouth gone sweet with juicy fruit [01:33.67] [01:35.86]Tawny legs and cut off jeans [01:38.09] [01:40.45]In my stretchy Ford Ranchero [01:42.87] [01:45.02]Ah we rattled like train cars [01:47.08] [01:49.74]And we slung our share of gravel [01:51.79] [01:54.16]'Neath a tarpoline of stars [01:56.12] [01:58.70]And you said [01:59.99]I don't wanna be tamed down [02:02.48]I don't wanna give an inch [02:04.65]The fenced off picture perfect [02:06.39]In your billfold window frame [02:08.68] [02:10.28]'Cause you were born to romp [02:12.26]In this God forsaken swamp [02:14.65]Dodging cotton mouths and quicksand [02:17.07]On your tiptoes in the rain [02:20.97] [02:23.10]Ah you were anything but tame [02:25.13] [02:46.13]I heard Shreveport didn't last [02:48.18] [02:50.84]So you lit out for LA [02:52.87] [02:55.40]But when lightning claws the night up [02:58.28] [03:00.16]I can see you plain as day [03:02.16] [03:04.66]And when I want to feel you near me [03:07.22] [03:09.50]I go quit this tired old gloom [03:11.97] [03:14.45]And pull on down a bayou [03:16.20] [03:18.89]To where the morning glories bloom [03:20.53] [03:23.24]And you said [03:24.54]I don't wanna be tamed down [03:26.90]I don't wanna tread regret [03:29.14]And flat out make excuses [03:31.05]For the way I came up lame [03:33.22] [03:34.88]I could have been enough [03:36.92]To live down by the gulf [03:39.18]Where the cutting edge of nowhere [03:41.58]Where the sun goes down in flames [03:45.71] [03:48.16]We were anything but tame [03:49.63] [03:57.39]Anything but tame