I'm off to find my soul

Think I left down a hole

Somewhere quarter mile from Tallahassee

And if I don't come home

And for fifty years I roam

Someone oughta smile and kiss for me

My sweetheart by the fire

Who knows that I'm a liar

Ain't no soul recovery in line for me

Well I drank away the light

Chasin' ghosts into the night

With a flask and a song and a busted knee

I heard the devil's choir

By the swamp and razor wire

Singin' hymns about a man I used to be

There's a bible in my coat

Full of things I never wrote

And a prayer she whispered soft before I’d flee

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Tell her I was wrong

Tell her she was strong

Tell her all I ever wanted was to be

Half the man she saw

Behind my drunken drawl

But the bottle and the wind had plans for me

Ain’t no soul recovery in line for me

Now the moon don't know my name

And the stars ain't lit the same

Since I traded love for liberty and sin

But if I pass that way again

With a smile and a regret

Maybe she’ll forgive the mess I’ve been

So if you see her light

Through the pinewoods late at night

Tell her I still hear her harmony

**(Chorus)**

Tell her I was wrong

Tell her she was strong

Tell her all I ever wanted was to be

Half the man she saw

Behind my drunken drawl

But the bottle and the wind had plans for me

Ain’t no soul recovery in line for me