Drive-By Truckers, Chicago: The Home Front, A Ghost To Most

The Drive-By Truckers open their (October 22, 2007) Chicago "Dirt Underneath" show with "The Home Front" and "A Ghost To Most" from the new album, "Brighter Than Creation's Dark".

The Home Front:

The hours creep across the face
And she paces across the floor
She can't even get to sleep
Since Tony went to war
She feels bitch-slapped and abandoned
By a world she thought she knew
Cold beyond comprehension
As their little girl turns two

Now they're saying on the flat screen
They ain't found the reason yet
We're all bogged down in a quagmire
And there ain't no end to it
No 9/11 or uranium
To pin this bullshit on
She's left standing on the home front
The two of them alone

A Ghost To Most:

I guess I'll never grow a sideburn
it's a shame with all I've got to go between
I hope somebody's cause takes soon
it's getting hard to find a place a root can sink
Mama said a lot of things and be thankful was the one she never minded saying twice
Thanks to her I can think clear enough,
to be thankful that she died before tonight

Saving everybody takes a man on a mission
with a swagger that can set the world at ease
Some believe it's God's own hand on the trigger
and the other dumping water in the streets
Talking tough is easy when it's other people's evil
and you're judging what they do or don't believe
It seems to me you'd have to have a hole you're own
to point a finger at somebody else's sheet

Baby every bone in my body's gone to jumping
like they're gonna come through my skin
If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn't matter if they did
But skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick they're money
nobody makes britches that size
and besides you're a ghost to most before they notice,
that you ever had a hair or a hide

I don't know how good it does a man,
to keep on telling him how good it is he's free
free to wash his ghost down the drain,
and free for them to tell him there's no such a thing

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• Drive-By
• Truckers
• Park
• West
• Dirt
• Underneath
• Chicago
• Home
• Front
• Ghost
• To
• Most
• Quagmire
• Iraq
• 9/11
• Uranium
• Bullshit
• War

[ocajun]

What chords does Patterson play here. Some kind of A, A7, E & G?

[toterola451]

Damn, I love these folks. They talk like me (I'm from TN), and they make some of the best music I've ever heard.

Thanks for posting.

[patchouliskye]

awesome songs and video....I just cant get enough of them..DBT is the best !!!

thank you for sharing !

peace n love~