Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night   Hopin’ I might fly away anew   Cause they’ll love you when you’re wrong   And then leave you when you’re right   Tell me baby, what’s a boy to do?      Well I came to town a stranger, not knowin’ how to act   Figured I’d hang out and just get found.   Made me some new friends   They climbed way up on my back   Been gone so long they ain’t comin’ down      You can kiss the sky good morning   You can say your prayers at night   Hide your soul way down in your shoes,   But it’s the same old scene   Borrowed love and faded dreams   And you just can’t hide from those Arkansas Blues.      Well time is playin’ tricks on me   Makes me thing I’m movin’ fast   I don’t think I’m movin’ at all   And every stranger’s face I see reminds me of the past   Come on big and leave you feelin’ small      So I took to drinkin’ liquor on the other side of town   Way up in those woods beside the moon   Where every graceful dream I had got lost without a sound   Tell you what, I can’t leave this place too soon.      And it don’t take no rhyme or reason   It don’t make no sense at all   Just one of those things that you don’t choose   It’s the same old thing   Broken hearts and busted strings   And you just can’t run from those Arkansas Blues.      Everybody’s asking questions about whose side are you on   I don’t see how it matters much to me   And all these midnight celebrations   That are ended by the dawn   Leave you feelin’ low as you can be      So I’m leaving town this morning, gonna lighten up my load   See if I can’t lose what I have found   And it’s one drink for the memories   And one kiss for the road   Look out, I believe I’m Texas bound   California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Tennessee   I been all around this land to pay my dues   High, low, and right behind me   Wherever I go they find me   And I just can’t run from the Arkansas Blues.