Well, she gets real mean when she's drunk And she finally fell asleep, and I'm glad She said, 'The only way you got as far as you did Is 'cause of me. Your songs suck' And I'm stuck in this American town And the streets are full of snow And the shops are closin' down And the only friend I had here moved away Went back to Dallas Ran out of money So now the bills have all been paid And the money's all been saved You're still as sad as you ever were Sellin' out To the man you trust The next morning, just after dawn On the side of my bed with just a towel on She said, 'I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.' You never do, let's finish what we were working on So now the bills have all been paid And the money's all been saved We're just as bad as we ever were Sellin' out to the bank and trust Yeah, the bank and trust And I met this girl from Montgomery A twenty six-year-old with a five-year-old baby Yeah, I had her when I was young Yeah, her daddy's long gone But that's all right, Jack You see, she saved me It's just that I feel stuck in this American town I finally got a good job, it'd just be dumb to move now So some days I can hardly move Much less move away So now the bills have all been paid And the money's all been saved We're just as bad as we ever were, ever were Selling out to the bank and trust Yeah, the man you trust Yeah, the man you trust