To Get Back Home - Chris Knight



     
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Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:
Twenty-one days out on the road,
the van broke down in a foot of snow.
Don't even know where the hell we are,
the batteries gone and the phone won't charge.
Wanted let you know, I'm doing my best to get back home.I ain't had no sleep, ain't washed my clothes
but everybody says it's a damn good show.
The pay's enough and the crowds are good,
but sometimes I'd rather be chopping wood
or rolling rocks up a hill,
but it's the only way I know to pay the bills.And the songs I sing can't get through and my mind fills up with you

and I drift off in a dream, about you and me.When I wake up to a wild ass crowd, the guitar amp is way too loud.
Well the drummer's been cheating on his wife
and the bass man is too drunk to drive
That's the way it goes
I'm just doing my best to get back homeAnd the songs I sing can't get through and my mind fills up with you
and I drift off in a dream, about you and meWell the manager called, we've got five more shows,
let me talk to the kids and then I got to go.
Your man's got to do what a man's got to do to bring that money on home to you.
I want to let you know, I'm just doing my best to get back home.
I'm just doing my best to get back home.
I'm just doing my best to get back home.

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Chris Knight (born on June 24, 1960, in Slaughters, Kentucky) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Having written songs for Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, and Randy Travis among others, Knight[ is perhaps best-known for writing the hit Montgomery Gentry song "She Couldn't Change Me". Knight[ has been compared to Steve Earle and John Prine throughout his career as a musician. Due to his particular fame in Texas, Knight[ been named an "Honorary Texan" by Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Knight started on his musical journey at just three years old when he requested a plastic guitar for Christmas. When he turned 15, he became more serious and began teaching himself John Prine songs on his older brother's guitar. He has a degree in agriculture from Western Kentucky University. He worked for close to ten years as a mine reclamation inspector and as a miner's consultant. In 1986, after earning his degree, he heard Steve Earle on the radio and decided to try his hand at writing songs. After six years of working on his songs he came to Nashville and won a spot on a songwriters' night at the Bluebird Cafe. He snatched the interest of Frank Liddell, who signed him to a publishing deal with Bluewater Music. He then went back home and kept writing, and when Decca Records hired Liddell for an A&R position, Knight got a record deal and Decca released his self-titled debut in 1998. Knight still lived in a trailer house on 90 acres in Slaughters when the album was released. He has since become a popular name in the Americana music genre.

His albums include:
Chris Knight (1998)
A Pretty Good Guy (2001)
The Jealous Kind (2003)
Enough Rope (2006)
The Trailer Tapes (2007)
Heart of Stone (2008)
Trailer II (2009)
Little Victories (2012) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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