Bloodied in the Blacktop

I came in with dust on my boots

And a storm in my chest

Draggin' this hurt

Like a chain I can't rest

Mama said, boy

You were born with a bruise in your song

Now I'm sayin' to the dark

Where I've been wrong

I ain't full of pain

Anything but smooth

A hard luck man

With nothin' left to prove

If I love the fire, I walk through the flame

Now I'm bloodied and broken

But I still call your name

That old highway keeps a record

Of the nights I've lost

Every mile a confession

Every promise a cost

The sly guitar cries

Like a train in the rain

And these horns blow the smoke off my shame

I'm full of pain, anything that's smooth

A hard luck man with nothing left to prove

If love's a fire, I walk through the flame

Now I'm bloodied and broken

But I still call your name

I don't pray for easy

I don't beg for clean

Just a little mercy

In the wreckage between

Let the organ shake

Let the drums drag me through

Hallows made out of sorrow

And that's what I do

I'm full of pain

Anything but smooth

A hard luck man

With nothing left to prove

If love's a fire

I walk through the flame

Now I'm bloodied and broken

But I still call your name

Yeah, I still call your name