State Champion - Keeping Time lyrics

Why'd you go out east my boy? Why'd you go out there? Did your papa say that the time of day Is only secondary to the price that you pay to know? Oh no And why'd you leave my back my boy? I thought you was with me with me 'til the end Why'd you leave my back my boy? I thought that you was whisky and I was gin Laid out on some bar together Dusty eyed but getting better as each calendar goes In the trash with the atlas and the maps Of all the circles we drove 'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no more But these a**holes knocking on my door Is that the cops or the devil or the goddamn Lord Who knows? I saw the federation flag Doubled over like a dancer on her side And when I called I called to tell you That your favorite of the athletes had died He offed his family and left nothing But an orchid on the nightstand alive Still you didn't pick me up but what the f** I figured why not try 'Cause there ain't a reason to be good my boy Though I've seen others try in the past There ain't a reason to be good my boy Though I have seen others they've died for less Horizontal on the prairie Still as the snow and buried by the dark While there's vampires on that altar With their teeth inside the neck of my guitar But there just ain't no one keeping time no more So I got in my car and I drove To the White House in my church clothes Just to see if you were sleeping on the lawn But all I found was freedom in a window Blinking my name in neon (please keep it on) I fell asleep myself you know I was dreaming of the Tri-State and beyond I had Lincoln looking over me saying "f** it man I guess the golden days are gone" 'Cause there ain't no one keeping time no one There ain't no one keeping time The minister is knee-deep in wine And who are you and I to go and argue with the Lord After eighteen years of sleeping on his floor? There ain't no one keeping time Ain't nobody keeping mine Ain't no one keeping time no more