Trent Willmon Album

Spent the night with Jim Beam and Johnny Walker Red,
Woke up with a freight train runnin' through my head,
Ohh I'm a beer man...
Bobby's more the wine kind,
Donny does his shots;
Sammy sips martinis,
Willy smokes pot,
but I'm a beer man...

I've done a little steppin' out there on a limb,
but my open mind winds up closed again,
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans,
Simple maybe...
but that's who I am...
Hey I'M JUST A BEER MAN.

Take your caviar and that fish that ain't cooked,
take if off a cracker and throw it on a hook,
I'm a beer man...
Oh and if I was a rich man tell ya what I'd do,
I'd be the same old, plain old, guy you always knew,
just a beer man...

I've done a little steppin' out there on a limb,
but my open mind winds up closed again,
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans,
Call me simple ...
but that's who I am...
Hey I'M JUST A BEER MAN.

Yeah - I've done a little steppin' out there on a limb,
but my open mind winds up closed again,
I like brown bottles and aluminum cans,
Call me simple ...
but I can't change who I am...
Whoa I'M JUST A BEER MAN.

There ain't a four lane road within twenty some miles from here
This town ain't got Wal-mart and never ever will
There's a church and a fillin' station where you get your gas
Then there's Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky tonk feed store gun shop
Used car beer bait bar-b-que barber shop laundermat

Well I stop by Dixie's about a half a dozen times a day
I ain't there for the super duper deals or the famous fried steak
Dixie's daughter is hotter than a hound on a fresh coon track
Down at Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky Tonk feed store gun shop
Used car beer bait bar-b-que barber shop laundermat

Yeah I got four of everything in there Bunch of stuff that I can't use
Hundred cans of skoal on my dashboard & I don't even chew
Yeah I'm there when they open and I'm there when they close
Standing at the check out line just checking out Becky Jo
Down at Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky Tonk feed store gun shop
Used car beer bait and bar-b-que barber shop laundermat

She wears nothing to hide sun dress that'll make you melt
Makes a country boy think she got eyes for nobody else
Yeah truth is she got us lined up clear out the back
Of old Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky Tonk feed store gun shop
Used car beer bait bar-b-que barber shop laundermat

"yeah" lead

Boss shouts out where you going I tell him I'll be right back
I just remembered I needed a dozen eggs and '87 cadlalac
Some question my persistence aw some might my sanity
But I ain't quitting til that gal is crazy over me
Down there at Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky Tonk feed store gun shop
Used car beer bait bar-b-que barber shop tractor parts eigth tracks

Exit 65, Room 232
It's nothing fancy, ain't much of a view
It's no white house with picket fences
But we close our eyes and pretend
At our home sweet Holiday Inn
Wish I could keep you,
But it's out of my hands
It's best that I can do,
I pray you'll understand
How much I love you, God I feel guilty
So I try to make amends
At our home sweet Holiday Inn

(Chorus)
I just get a couple of days
To steal you away
Make up for all the time
I missed
And I hope that we can fit it all in
At our home sweet Holiday Inn

You've grown so fast that
I just can't believe
How much you're changing,
But you still look like me
Maybe some day,
This will all be different
But baby until then
We've got out home sweet Holiday Inn

(Repeat Chorus)

Your daddy loves you
And I'll be dreaming of you
And counting the days until I see you again
At our home sweet Holiday Inn

You know if I'd seen her comin'
I'd probably tried to hide
But I came around the corner
And she caught me by surprise
There was no ice cold shoulder
There was no ugly scene
She just smiled and didn't say
The things I thought she'd say to me

(Chorus 1)
It was nothin' like that rainy night
She left and slammed the door
Not only she don't love me
She don't hate me anymore

I felt like some neighbor
Just some guy she once knew
You'd never know she loved me
And I broke her heart in two
Was she hidin' her emotions
Or did she really get that strong
Right then she turned and
Introduced me to her new friend John

(Chorus 2)
I could tell the way he shook my hand
He'd never heard of me before
Not only she don't love me
She don't hate me anymore

There was no ice cold shoulder
There was no ugly scene
She just smiled and didn't say
The things I knew she'd say to me

(Chorus 3)
I guess she got so caught up in him
My memory's gone ignored
Not only she don't love me
She don't hate me anymore

(Chorus 4)
I know it might sound crazy
But I don't know what hurts me more
Is it the fact that she don't love me

The sun is setting on a hard day's work
Sure feels good to get 'er all done
Washed off the sweat, the hay and the dirt
Now it's time to have some fun
I'll go meet Amy at the Dixie Dog
Get a #3 and a Coke float
Make the drag, then later on
We'll head down to the cove

(Chorus)
Back up the pickup truck, right up to the lake
Throw a blanket on the tailgate
Listen to the bullfrog
Serenade in the moonlight
In the truck bed dancin' slow
We'll sing along with the radio
Sippin' on Grandma's home made wine
Livin' the good life

There's a cottonwood tree
With a limb hangin' over
We'll do the cannonball off a rope swing
She can dry her clothes out by the fire
I swear I won't peek
I'll be wishin' that
The night could last forever
As I'm looking into her doe eyes
Ride back home with her head on my shoulder
Can't wait till next time

There used to be a sign saying "Welcome To
Population 82"
Just a little town with no line streets
Where I Loved you and you loved me
But there ain't been a day of sun
Since this town has become
Population 81

We used to lay beside the lake
And talk about the plans we'd make
We'd build a house by that old oak tree
Make it population 83
Now those dreams have turned to dust
Since this town has become
Population 81

(Chorus 1)
I threw a penny in the wishing well
And I made a wish that wished you well
And I watched it sink away from me
Away from me

Now when I go down to the corner store
Where the old men sit out on the porch
I hear what they don't say to me
But they'll talk about it when I leave
Cause they know what's done is done
And that this town has become
Population 81

(Chorus 2)
I took a walk out on the bridge
And I dropped that diamond off the edge
And I watched it sink away from me
Away from me
Away from me

There used to be a sign saying "Welcome To
Population 82"
Just a little town with no line streets

I'm on the 28th floor looking out through the window
My boots are propped up on my desk
They pay me good money to contribute I know
But I'm Medina daydreamin' again

A girl down in Texas eyes like bluebonnets
Freckles and hair almost black
Like the dam had just broken on old Lake Medina
My Carissa held nothin' back
Ten years have gone by, we've gone on with our lives
But I can't get it out of my head
I should stop reminiscing but I catch myself drifting
Medina daydreamin' again

(Chorus)
I don't know what cause my thought to get lost
In this magical wrinkle in time that hill country river
Oh the way that I loved her keeps winding its way through my mind

We spent the whole summer holding on to each other
Nothing else mattered back then
But each morning would find us in the shade of a cyprus
Medina daydreamin' again

We'd ride the tubes down to the place that we'd found
Pretend it was our own
Where the live oaks had hidden
A little limestone cabin
Had to be a hundred years old
We used to say we'd buy it someday
That's where we'd raise all our kids
Then we'd pop the top on a lone star
And drift down to the sand bar
Medina daydreamin' again

(Repeart Chorus)

Now sometimes I wonder
What became of her
If she ever thinks about me
And I try to imagine
What might of happened
If I hadn't been so young and naive
If I could go back somehow
With what I know now
I can almost see what might've been
I should give a call, but wait,
What am I thinkin' y'all
I'm Medina daydreamin' again
I'm dreamin' again

Well I run a little tavern on a dead end street
And my ears are pretty bent
By the time I close at three
Everybody's got a wish that comes in here
A little amnesia for the price of a beer
And Dale knows that I know all about his wife
And what it is she's doing and
Who she's with tonight
But I don't say a word about it
And neither does he
He just talks about them Dodgers
And buys another drink

(Chorus)
Down at The Wishing Well
Forgetfulness is what's for sale
To help wash away the sin of lovers and friends
Or just forgive themselves
A place to throw their money down
In hopes of getting lost or found
You ought to hear the stories
They don't tell
Down at The Wishing Well

They say Gina was a heartbreaker
Back in her day
But years and hard living
Put the lines on her face
Now she only wants a man
Who can see her like before
So she sips her margarita and watches the door

(Repeat Chorus)

Yeah I'll pour you a drink seven nights a week
And I'll listen to what you say or you don't
Cause that's how I forget
The reasons that I'm alone

She had her car loaded all down
Pointed east as she headed on out
But I had no idea how long it'd take
There ain't a tree, no there ain't a rock
Nothing on that horizon to block
The sad view of my baby driving away

(Chorus)
Yeah there she was kicking up dust
And out here a man can see for miles
Yeah and time don't fly
Losing love is always tough
But here in west Texas it takes a while to say goodbye
It's bad enough she's gone, gone, gone
But I had to watch her leave me all day long

I should have known that she wouldn't dig
The rattle snakes and risty oil rigs
Living here wasn't her idea of fun
I sat and whittled me a big ol' stick
Down to nothing but a little tooth pick
Just waiting on her to get here leaving done

Every now and then I got out with a friend or two
And have a few rounds
I make it home by ten, but I remember when
I used to close that place down
The whiskey and the smoke and a couple tasteless jokes
Don't taste the way they did
I just do it every now and then to remind myself why
I just do it every now and then

And every now and then I surrender to a whim
My wheels wind up west of town
And I turn down that street that just turns out to be
A road I shouldn't go back down
All those memories they've turned to ghosts and weeds
I dont' wanna hurt like that again
I just do it every now and then to remind myself why
I just do it every now and then

(Chorus)
Sometimes I forget why things in my past
Are things in my past
Sometimes to see clear why I left there for here
I gotta take a step back

Every now and then I spend a minute with the man
I was till I loved you
And I walk those empty miles, reminisce and reconcile
And I smile at the me you never knew
He's good for a good laugh, but anything beyond that
I don't wanna relive
I just do it every now and then to remind myself why
I just do it every now and then

(Repeat Chorus)

Every now and then I go out with a friend or two

A lot had changed, since I've been gone
But not my love for you
And I promised you nothing would keep away
So I came back as fast as I could
And I still bump around this old house sometimes
But I barely make a sound
I sure have traveled a long, long way
Just to be hanging around

(Chorus)
Sweet Virginia, I still lay beside you
And when you're dreaming that's really me
And if you feel something there in the darkness
Don't be afraid of what you can't see
Just know that I always will be... here

I didn't mean to give you a cold chill today
When you were holding that picture of me
But I saw your tears so I reached for your hand
Fogetting how cold mine could be
And I made that breeze in the garden yesterday
Just to see you stop and smile
I know how you love the wind in your face
Besides I still need to touch you
Every once in a while

(Repear Chorus)

Sweet Virginia, I still lay beside you
And when you're dreaming that's really me