[CHORUS] Watching all the stars Playin' my gi-tar in these bars I'm up at the break of dawn Singin' this tailgate song Workin' a double shift 'Til my eyes water with smoke All night long... Gettin' wasted 'Cept nobody's laughing anymore These after-hours... [VERSE 1] Don't want to go home yet Don't want to Be back on that homestead Fighting fires far away instead Hop on the red engine With the flashing lights Brew another pot of coffee To get them all through the night And I tell myself I'm just helpin' strangers But my phone rings And I stuff it in my glovebox and Stare out at the dust blowin' across the road Tumbleweed hung up in a barbed-wire fence... These are the things that no one sees [CHORUS] Watching all the stars Playin' my gi-tar in these bars I'm up at the break of dawn Singin' this tailgate song Workin' a double shift 'Til my eyes water with smoke All night long... Gettin' wasted 'Cept nobody's laughing anymore These after-hours... [VERSE 2] My cousin said I ain't never around Not when you need me Maybe he's right I jump in my Chevy And drive away Squinting Like my old man I don't go see Dad much anymore Don't know what that says about me He hardly remembers me anyhow These are the things that no one sees [BRIDGE] I ain't never kept track of my scars I don't remember much from those nights In the backseat of my truck In strange rooms and cars All the lovers, bitter pills and bottles scattered down the road [VERSE 3] Climbin' up the old barn Higher than we oughta been Dad pullin' splinters from our fingers Sayin' we had cotton between our ears Remember when us boys used to compare our scars? We was so proud of the bad things we done What ever happened to those days? Mmm, summers gone in the blink of an eye And most of us well we ain't havin no fun These are the things that no one sees [FINAL CHORUS] Watching all the stars Playin' my gi-tar in these bars I'm up at the break of dawn Singin' this tailgate song Workin' a double shift 'Til my eyes water with smoke All night long... Gettin' wasted 'Cept nobody's laughing anymore These after-hours... [INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO]
