James McMurtry

Comfortable Lyrics



You never know when

you leave the house

You might come home

by a different route

It could take longer than you planned

It could get completely out of hand



If you let it slide if you let it slip

You could wonder how it came to this

In the neighborhood on a quiet night

Out beside the road in the flashing lights



Now I don't need to know the guy

next door

I haven't seen him for a month or more

And This is how I like to live

He don't ask what I won't give



(chorus)

And I'm comfortable

Can't you see

I'm comfortable

So just let me be

It's the best you'll do on an average day

I'm comfortable

I'm gonna stay that way



Deny the flesh to save the soul

Deny the fact you're too damned old

Deny the flesh to save the flesh

For god's sake save whatever's left



But I will not stray from the well worn path

I will not stray so don't you even ask

And if you see me coming

Don't put your thumb in the air

Cause I'll drive on by

And leave you standing there



(chorus)



Pick that guitar up off the stand

And play it like a full grown man

Play it till the walls come down

Twist the knobs till it shakes the ground



You never know when

you leave the house

You might come home

by a different route

By a different road than

the one you took

Don't give me that injured look



(chorus)