This song is about what can happen if you actually listened to the darkest of voices inside your head. Hopefully it's not based on a true story but it probably is.

So which one do you like better... the funky version from BTCD or the country version from The Fine Print? I like the country one but I prefer the BTCD version, It perfectly fits the dark mood of the song.




Honey, take care of the children, make them do as they're told
I got a meeting in the morning down at the end of the Goode's Field Road
Nothing much for a man in my position
A man like me don't last too long in prison
And all those friends down at Police Department
will act like they never had anything to do with me

Started out down at the junk yard taking orders from a moron
And a man my size don't like taking orders from anyone
Bought myself an old beat up wrecker, built an empire with my labor brains and sweat
But it's hard to make an honest living and a man takes any help he gets

Nothing much for a man in my position, a second mortgage and three
college kids' tuition and all them friends that I helped along the way
Will act like they never had anything to do with me

But you and me, we had us some good times and I've always been a family
man deep down. Ain't much a believer of hiring work from "out of state"
but they'll be asking questions when I'm found. They'll be asking
questions when I'm found

Honey, take care of the children, pay the house off when the salvage yard gets sold
And you don't know nothing when the insurance man asks questions
Bout what went down at the Goode's Field Road

I like them both, think they did the right thing with holding off for BTCD tho.
It is supposedly based on a true story

I prefer TFP version.

RevMatt wrote:I prefer TFP version.

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I love the song. It's the more somber version of the story told in the film Bulworth.

I like both, some days somber is good, some days you want a little motion in your song motion.

I far prefer the groove on the BTCD version. The Fine Print version does nothing for me

Zip City wrote:I far prefer the groove on the BTCD version. The Fine Print version does nothing for me

completely disagree. I like both, but the swampy BTCD version takes a certain mood. I can listen The Fine Print version any time.

Tequila Cowboy wrote:

Zip City wrote:I far prefer the groove on the BTCD version. The Fine Print version does nothing for me

completely disagree. I like both, but the swampy BTCD version takes a certain mood. I can listen The Fine Print version any time.

I'm gonna side with Zip on this one. I like both but i am more often into BTCD version.

I like them both, a lot...But I think the btcd enables the listener to focus more on the story at hand making it a deeper cut in my book..

Cooley's guitar is just so funky on the BTCD version. Seeing it live is phenomenal. You can just feel the groove.

Tequila Cowboy wrote:

Zip City wrote:I far prefer the groove on the BTCD version. The Fine Print version does nothing for me

completely disagree. I like both, but the swampy BTCD version takes a certain mood. I can listen The Fine Print version any time.

This is where I'm at.

Zip City wrote:I far prefer the groove on the BTCD version. The Fine Print version does nothing for me

i wouldn't go as far as "does nothing for me" since i like the breezy, strummy feel of the fine print version, but i prefer the BTCD version as well. like PeterJ said, the groove is massive, cooley's guitar is psychotic, and it just captures the drama of the story much better, imo. i wish they'd play it live more. and this:

Nothing much for a man in my position, a second mortgage and three
college kids' tuition and all them friends that I helped along the way
Will act like they never had anything to do with me

But you and me, we had us some good times and I've always been a family
man deep down

kills me. great song. i'm glad they stuck with it after it didn't work out on TDS.

Not sure if the story is true but the road is real. In highschool Goode's Field is where we had keg parties. It's in St. Florian Alabama just a little north of Florence.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 2&t=h&z=17

My family holds onto vehicles. I still drive my grandfather’s ‘99 pickup and an ‘08 suv. I use the suv to haul off recycling out of fear of stuff blowing out of the uncoveredbed of the truck.

I recently turned off satellite radio in the suv after getting a new car; however, cds are left in the suv and among them is “It’s Great to Be Alive”.

I was just taking off recycling in the suv and Goode’s Field Road played, and I got chills. To fully paint the picture, I’m in the suv on an 80-some degree day, and the power windows no longer work, and the ac doesn’t work. My forehead was sweating, but my arm had goosebumps.

Call me a fanboy, but let’s see another band do that to me!!!

I needs to know: WHAT. WILL. HAPPEN. TO. THE. CHILDREN???!!!

Prefer The Fine Print version, but enjoy both.
Wish they played TFP version live from time to time.

This lyric hits 100% of the time: And a man my size don't like taking orders from anyone