Outfit - Drive-By Truckers

You want to grow up

To paint houses like me

A trailer in my yard till you're 23

You want to be old after 42 years

Keep dropping the hammer

And grinding the gears

Well I used to go out

In a Mustang

A 302 Mach One in green

Me and your Mama

Made you in the back

And I sold it to buy her a ring

And I learned not to say

Much of nothing

And I figured you already know

But in case you don't

Or maybe forgot

I'll lay it out real nice and slow

Don't  call what your wearing

An outfit

Don't ever say your car is broke

Don't worry about

Losing your accent

A Southern Man tells better jokes

Have fun but stay

Clear of the needle

Call home on your sister's  birthday

Don't tell them you're bigger

Than Jesus don't  give it away

Five years in a St Florian foundry

They call it Industrial Park

Then hospital maintenance

And Tech School just to

Memorize Frigidaire parts

But I got to missing your

Mama and I got to

Missing you too

So I went back to painting

For my old man and I guess

That's  what I'll always do

So don't try to change

Who you are boy

And don't try to be

Who you ain't 

And don't let me catch you

In Kendale with a bucket of

Wealthy-man's paint

Don't call what your wearing

An outfit

Don't ever say your car is broke

Don't sing with a fake

British accent Don't

Act like your family's a joke

Have fun but stay clear

Of the needle

Call home on your sister's  birthday

Don't tell them you're bigger

Than Jesus

Don't give it away

Don't give it away