The Heel (Live)

Introducing, from parts unknown... "Dirty" Dale Voss. I read your little paper on the drive in off the line Church fish fry, a plant closing, and a school board holding tight You paid eleven dollars for the privilege of a fight And you'll pay it again on Tuesday just to watch me lose it right I don't want you to love me - love won't fill a single seat Any fool can get you cheering, darlin'. Me, I get heat. Boo me louder, I can't hear you in the back Come on, sweetheart, put your whole chest into that I'm the best part of the worst night of your life And I'll be the same man in this town tomorrow night I park six blocks from the building so you don't see what I drive Eat alone with my back to the wall, don't sit down with the boys Tape drying on a curtain rod, a bag of ice, a bad knee Nine towns, one pair of trunks, and whatever's left of me There's a woman in the third row, been swinging at me eight years now I make sure I walk close enough. She'd be heartbroke if I didn't. Boo me louder, I can't hear you in the back Come on, sweetheart, put your whole chest into that I'm the best part of the worst night of your life And I'll be the same man in this town tomorrow night Two in the morning, pumping gas outside Terre Haute Kid says "hey, you're that guy" and takes a step in close I say "you best watch yourself, son" - never break, never bend His mother pulls him back a step and I know I got 'em again Four hundred miles to Owensboro. Nobody rides with me. That's the job. That's the whole job. And I done it right again. Chairs stacked crooked, half the lights already down Somebody's running a mop across the floor Boo me louder, I can't hear you in the back Come on, sweetheart, put your whole chest into that I'm the best part of the worst night of your life And I'll be the same man in this town tomorrow night One - you came in here hating me Two - you'll come back to hate me again Three.