Chris Knight Undone

Fire one up and you toss one down
Everybody knows you been downtown
Been downtown late last night
Busted your head in a barroom fight
Fightin' with your brother fightin' with your wife
Seems you been fightin' every day of your life
Can't stand still, still can't run
You put it all together but it came undone

Your soul is junk, your brain is dust
All your memories are eaten up with rust
Your nightmares real, dreams too stark
You love the night but you hate the dark
Your mother your daddy little sister too
Told you a secret they were countin' on you
You were dying to tell but your dad said son
Button your lip but it come undone

So they turned you out when you turned them in
They told you don't come back again
Now the years stack up like old beer cans
Dead end jobs payment plans
Broke down trucks welfare checks
Child support and back-seat sex
You'd kill yourself but you hocked your gun
You built a noose but it come undone

So you're livin' in a shack bu you wanna be rich
And you would if it wasn't for the sonovabitch
The sonovabitch the dirty old whore
The butcher the baker the grocery store
You hate them they hate you
What in the world are you gonna do
It ain't your fault but they need someone
To blame it on when they come undone

Now the storm's comin' in the sky's turned black
It's too late now you can't turn back
Lightnin' strikes on the telephone wire
You're drunk as a skunk your shack's on fire
The wife took the baby and the other two kids
The dogs are a-howlin' and the chickens are dead
It's your last night out and you're gonna have fun
They'll read it in the papers when you come undone

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Music

Tags:

• Chris
• Knight
• Undone
• Keen Robert Earl

[mengle2004]

@PabstPenrose I agree. It is great that we have the internet so small indy artist can been enjoyed but people just attack one another to try to prove they are more of a fan than the other guy.

[PabstPenrose]

@mwm75028 I just don't understand all these genres that have come up. Why not just call it country, like it should be. I mean, that's what it is. Even if it's not on the Nasvhville charts and all that dumb stuff. But still.

[mwm75028]

@pabstpenrose

I was referring to the fact that this song was originally written by Robert Earl Keen, it was sang by Chris Knight on a REK tribute album and REK IS from Texas. Ryan Bingham in fact was born in New Mexico, but raised in Texas, and yes, your pretty much wrong he is red dirt.

Chris Knight, although great and yeah real country down to the core is from Kentucky, making him definitely not red dirt. Appreciate the criticism and nit picking though.

[PabstPenrose]

@mwm75028 Chris Knight isn't Texas country, nor is it Red Dirt. He's just country music, meaning he's what country music is supposed to be. Randy Rogers, and all those other guys are Texas Country. Hence, them being from Texas. Ryan Bingham is also mistaken for "Texas Country." Maybe instead of telling people to look up the wrong thing, you could tell people to look up real country music.

[mwm75028]

Just a display of the greatness that is Texas country! Specifically Robert earl keen and Chris really does it justice here. If yall don't know Texas country.... Look it up

[freetickeys]

Chris Knight is a great hillbilly poet and one helluva cover artist for being one of the best singer songwriters in the world. While we await his new album, maybe, he should make a cover album of some of his favorite songs. I recorded him covering 'Powderfinger", he did Johnny Cash's "Flesh And Blood" and now REK's "Undone". I'd love to hear him cover some John Prine, Jackson Browne or any of the other artists he credits as influences. About 10 more songs and I'd be one of the first in line!