Rodney Crowell - Anything But Tame lyrics

When our feet were tough as horn And our eyes were sharp as flint And our hearts beat like two war drums And you tracked me by my scent Cross a scape of shiny asphalt That blacked our soles with tar And we ran like brave Comanches On a moonlit reservoir And you said I don't wanna be tamed down I just wanna saddle up Ride my broomstick pony Along some salt gra** open plain I can see you standing guard On the fence in your backyard With your daisy pump air rifle And your Annie Oakley aim Ah, you were anything but tame When you'd summon me with bird calls Or you scratching at my screen Your mouth gone sweet with juicy fruit Tawny legs and cut off jeans In my stretchy Ford Ranchero Ah, we rattled like train cars And we slung our share of gravel 'Neath a tarpaulin of stars And you said I don't wanna be tamed down I don't wanna give an inch The fenced off picture perfect In your billfold window frame 'Cause you were born to romp In this God forsaken swamp Dodging cotton mouths and quicksand On your tiptoes in the rain Ah, you were anything but tame I heard Shreveport didn't last So you lit out for L.A But when lightning claws the night up I can see you plain as day And when I want to feel you near me I go quit this tired old gloom And pull on down a bayou To where the morning glories bloom And you said I don't wanna be tamed down I don't wanna tread regret And flat out make excuses For the way I came up lame I could have been enough To live down by the gulf Where the cutting edge of nowhere Where the sun goes down in flames We were anything but tame Anything but tame