Lyrics

(note: the video "treatment/demo" for this song can be found at: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12188753

Hanging Out With The Boys

James Hooker

Verse 1

Just yesterday was high school
Now I'm death at a thousand meters
Hanging out with the boys

There's no good way to say this
This damned old road is rough
Hanging out with the boys

This desert is a lot like home
Faces never change
Though the names sometimes get lost in the wind

All of my friends have gone on to finer things
And think of me time to time, I hope
Hanging out with the boys
On the line

Verse 2

Grandfather told me
The best years of his life was spent
Hanging out with the boys

Apparently Belgium was a bitch (alt. 'was a living hell' - I'm flexible on this line-contact me)
But he still had his fun
Hanging out with the boys

I had a second cousin loose his life on the Mekong
In a lot of smoke and noise
Maybe the last thing he saw
In those weeds

Was the sight of those smiling faces
He never thought he'd see again
Hanging out with the boys
On that line

Verse 3

I sleep at night on the mountain
I sleep tonight on the sea
Hanging out with the boys

I guess that The Mona Lisa's
Just gonna have to
Wait to see me
I'm hanging out with the boys

Till I catch that Freedom Bird
Back to the banks of The Santee
I'll be hanging out with the boys