Well it's a vile world but that's all right/Long as the little king's alive
In a day of shifting styles/His damage will last awhile.
Dizzy in a fever of muscle and chrome/This jerkwater town burned like Rome
Truckled to the torch of one savage kid/That's how to rule! That's how to live!
When you're old and not so clever/When you're dragging your ghost around
These wild years won't last forever/This kingdom comes right down!
Little King had a Midas hand/Anything he touched turned yellow and ran
Rebel boys, half-witted and brave/Felt lucky to follow and slave
And from the back of his eyes, some demon sprung/Made young men wanna touch bottles and guns
Make Pleistocene creatures of Mom and Dad/Twice more kick than your real kings had
It's a vile world, but that's O.K./That's where the smart bucks are today
Tortoise shells and a wedding ring/So much for the little
king.
But, see that hilltop, gutted and bare...?/15 years back a King walked there
Now some half-wit hellspawn's gonna take his turn/That's how to crash! That's how to burn!
- :
- Upland Stories
- Gone Away Backward
- Miscellaneous
- Robbie Fulks on Audiotree Live
- Alabama at Night
- Uprooted: The Best of Roots Country Singer Songwriters
- South Mouth
- 13 Hillbilly Giants
- Couples In Trouble
- Country Love Songs
- The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides
- Mile Marker 383: Starbucks Songs From the Open Road
- Live at Double Door 1/16/04 (disc 2)
- Georgia Hard
- New Country: Volume 5, Number 2
- Hell-Bent-Insurgent Country, Volume 2
- The Riversound Cafe, Volume One
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
- CMJ New Music Monthly, Volume 62: October 1998
- Bloodshot Records Sampler 2001