Far From New Orleans (re-mastered)

[verse 1]

Now that I'm far from New Orleans

I'm better off than ever

Hard to make it without jeans

I wish I had something better

to wear

Give me a day or a week

to find work that's better

Than digging a ditch

just don't tell me what to do

because I change moods

quicker than the weather

[bridge]

[Verse 2]

The greedy merchants

of old Romeville

led by lucre, run

To the parch'd west Indies,

and the rising sun;

From selling hot pepper

and rich drugs they bear,

Bart'ring for spices

even their Italian ware.

[verse 3]

Where the piney woods

turned into the swampy

the alluvium of Louisiana,

A state with instant personality,

not only in language,

but in the ravaged roads

That sang against the car tires

in desperate song

of it's savage frailties

[ pre-chorus]

Don't say it's all right

You clearly lost your mind

and the light over head

has long disappeared

So, if you really wanna know

[Chorus]

Now that I'm far from New Orleans

I'm better off than ever

Hard to make it without jeans

I wish I had something better

to wear

[Bridge]

You’re keep calling me back

Lost in your sorry life

not Heading back home

it makes no sense

I am perfectly happy here in Rome

But I'm wasting my breath

'Cause you only care for

your plastic friends

I don't belong with you

no, I don't,

I don't belong with you,

'Cause

You made me hate that city

[Chorus]

Now that I'm far from New Orleans

I'm better off than ever

Hard to make it without jeans

I wish I had something better

to wear

[Drop]

I'm trying to forget everything

about You.

all that you did

was leave me feeling dead

not going to run the clock back

I don't want to

And don't try to make me feel bad

because our time

has run its course

and the silent line

is the final result.

I just wish I had

something better

to wear.

[outro]