The Drive-By Truckersare a southern rock/ alt-countryband based in Athens, Georgia. Their music is characterised by its "three axe attack," or three guitars supported by bass and drums. The band was co-founded in 1996, by Patterson Hood(son of Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section player David Hood) and Mike Cooley. The Drive-By Truckers put out their first two albums, Gangstabilly(1998) and Pizza Deliverance(1999), followed by a live album, Alabama Ass-Whuppin(released in 2000 by Second Heaven Records, re-released in 2002 by Terminus Records). In 2001, the band released Southern Rock Opera, a double CD song cycle about the rise to stardom and demise of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I live down in Alabama where the river so muddy got to watch where you step.
Figurin' out things by the Railroad Bridge and a cousin or two want to give me just a little help.
Damn sure not much to do down here 'cept to cook it down and run it in your veins.
That's where the trouble started.
I fucked a lot of friends.
I fucked a lot of friends got a black line drawn right across my name.
Before the soul dies.
Before the sun burns out.
I want to walk through heaven's gate.
I want to walk through heaven's gate.
Moved on over to Georgia
Where the people's so nice you got to watch where you step.
Lookin' for toes and feelings.
Kicking and screaming sheets stay soaking wet.
The sun looks like the sun again
I got me a woman who does just a little wrong - just enough.
I'm through with addiction and heartache - now I say so long.
I made a valid attempt.
But I can't change my spots.
Lost everything again.
Everything I got.
And now my body dies
And the sun burns out
I walk through heaven's gate.
(or so my mama's told.)
I walk through heaven's gate.