I don’t ever wanna wake up looking into someone else’s eyes/Another voice calling me baby on the other end of the phone/A new girl putting on her makeup before dinner on Friday night/No I don’t ever wanna know-oh-oh
Still a sap to the very end, working the simple country bumpkin’ angle to its absolute core. Luckily he’s savvy enough to rework some of those archaic melodies and rhythms that seem to anchor down other stars in the same position. The analogy is corny, but exactly what you’d expect from a fading star.