Song is about general frustrations with finding a job. When I wrote this I was working in a mail room in DC. It was released on American Alien, Success Story.

You think your smart
You think your funny
I wasn't born yesterday honey
Got a real mean mug and sugar
That's a fact
When I move on to Memphis oh
Won't be no coming back

I got a job 
In a mailroom 
Play my guitar for a whores heirloom
I'm a bad motherfucker
And you called me a hack
I'm gonna grow a dirty beard oh
Put my sorries in a sack

Now you wouldn't know you son from a portrait of the devil
Spent your time on the steel string, blood smells of metal
Hand on the slide, foot on the pedal 
I'm going to give you what I got
It's the working mans blues

I take the train 
Into the city
My coat is long and my walk is pretty
I got no destination man
I got nowhere to go
Let the clock keep a'tickin
Let the work start to flow

Now there's tire treads in Bethlehem and Jesus drives a lexus
Stole the care in Omaha headed south through Texas
Riding awful fast, got an interview 
Says he's gonna be a shoe shine
God damned the working blues

The Jesus Drives a Lexus Blues

i used to work landscaping, and be in love, and listen to modest mouse.  



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The current name I am releasing under is The Low Bends. I'm moving in a roots rock americana direction recently and am planning some releases this year. 

The Jesus Drives a Lexus Blues

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