Jim White - Jailbird Lyrics
Dixie is a scourge and a scar
And a girl in my heart and a state of mind
Jesus is the man with a plan
He's a short haired Mexican friend of mine
Can't leave your past behind
Wipers in the rain tap out time
Coming up on a new state line
I wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can find
Brick up the well of tears and disappear
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Midnight, take a short cut
Through the downtown cemetery
No stepping on graves
Check the statue of the Virgin Mary
She's catching moonlight in the shadows
Revealing spider webs
Can you see the black widow
Hung between our lady's hands?
I wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can find
Brick up the well of tears and disappear
Leave myself behind
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Now used to be when I was young
I was so hungry for oblivion
My thoughts would linger
Like fingers in a deadly web
But in time as sorrow showed it's face
In kind I learned to ache for grace
To work and pray to one day
Be delivered whole, alive and free
I wanna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Gonna get me a fast car
Set out and see what I can find
Brick up the well of tears and disappear
Leave myself behind
Gonna be a jailbird
From the prison of my own damn mind
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Jim White - Stranger Candy
- Jim White - Jailbird
- Jim White - Blindly We Go
- Jim White - A Town Called Amen
- Jim White - Land Called Home
- Jim White - Phone Booth In Heaven
- Jim White - Alabama Chrome
- Jim White - Buzzards Of Love
- Jim White - Objects In Motion
- Jim White - If Jesus Drove A Motor Home
- Jim White - Borrowed Wings
- Jim White - Crash Into The Sun
- Jim White - Fruit Of The Vine
- Jim White - Take Me Away
- Jim White - Bluebird
- Jim White - My Brother's Keeper
- Jim White - What Rocks Will Never Know
- Jim White - Chase The Dark Away
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Jim White Jailbird Comments
Beautiful song and great harmonica playing which reminds me of Neil Young's Out On The Weekend.
What a beautiful sad song. Thank you, Jim.
Wonderful song about a feeling many can relalte to - not fitting in!
Simple, pure, authentic, heartfelt & a rare gemstone******
Stumbled apon jim white not knowing a thing about him. Looked up his music and this is the first one I hear. Must be some weird form of fate with his stories of home and whatnot. I wanna find out more about this man 💜
Just discovering his music - going through same thing. His songs about the meaning of home and call it love/hate, call it the inner child wanting home, it runs deep in all of us. It's the Native American seeking to die in the same place he was born. There's something primal in this guys music, a vein of gold running through the overly ordinary boredom and occasional chaos of life.
White is a great talent but his music of grass roots banality wears thin at times and seems overly nostalgic for the tragic. I guess its a way of trying to rescue his being apparently having lived through some hard times. I think there are other things to come from him beyond just that sort of thing. He reminds me of Townes Van Zandt in his searching meaningful songs.
I love this song. "Grass roots banality" seems a pretty interesting choice of words. I don't find this banal, nor do I find it thin. I similarly do not find the work of Andre Dubus, Raymond Carver, Buell Kazee or Dock Boggs banal. Expression of genuine feeling, somewhat uncommon these days in music. The meaning is there. I guess we bring to our listening what we bring to it, respectively. But you are right with regard to there being more to his work - e.g. Earnest T. Bass At Last Finds the Woman of His Dreams or Long Long Day on the latest album.
Gorgeous tune... thank you for being you, Jim White.
Is that an Irish bodhrán drum on the bed?
My favourite Jim White song - magical! Love it!
So beautiful. Thank you.
Magic Genius
One of my favorite songs of Jim's. Great version.