Dark as Dusk

It's early April and it's cold as December It's four pm and it's dark as dusk The winter's long, it's long as hell, son The work is hard and it takes all day But you know what they say Little Billy needs a new coat this year But Little Sally needs a new coat of paint I never been good at making choices But I can ride these four wheels all day I think it's better this way Well they can't understand why I did 'em like that, But they don't know the monkey I got on my back And I don't know if I got the wits to explain Like a thief in the night, away I crept There were a lot of things that I shoulda kept But me and Sally, we're gonna be alright I left a woman out on the East coast I lied about goin' gettin' cigarettes They ask me if I'm ever going back there I tell em that I wouldn't take that bet And I'm a betting man What leads a man to do what I done? It's true I like to have my fun, But there's something else that keeps me away. What it is, I just can't say... And so they can't understand why I did 'em like that But they don't know the monkey I got on my back And I don't know if I got the wits to explain Like a thief in the night, away I crept There were a lot of things that I shoulda kept But me and Sally, we're gonna be alright Yeah, me and Sally, we're gonna be alright