Queen-size mattress on an old oak floor

And I don't see the need in closing the screen door

I wanna hear the birds when the day finally comes

How I fear all my days of being young are done

Or only just begun.

How close can a man come to god before dyin'?

'bout as close as you were, when you were tryin'

To shade the sun from your eyes on the creek's edge, darling

There's a bar around the bend a man is bending blues guitar in.

But when the day is done

And those neon lights call you home

You'll be beggin' of your savior

To let you savor

The savage times of twenty-so

When the night is through

And those american girls are headed home

You'll be beggin' of your savior

To let you save her

From the sweet nights of twenty-so.

And I know how hard it is to love a boy like me

With my dry sense of humor and my reckless tendencies

But not all labor is done with hardened hands

You've been chompin' at the bit just to love an honest man.

So when the day is done

And those neon lights call you home

You'll be beggin' of your savior

To let you savor

The savage times of twenty-so

When the night is through

And those american girls are headed home

You'll be beggin' of your savior

To let you save her

From the sweet nights of twenty-so.

So when the day is done

And those neon lights call you home

You'll be beggin' for your savior

To let you savor

The savage times of twenty-so

When the night is through

And those american girls are headed home

You'll be beggin' of your savior

To let you save her

From the sweet nights of twenty-so.