1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Slow 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,280 dirty guitar 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,639 crawling through a smoky room. 4 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:20,199 HARMONICA CRYING LOW 5 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:20,199 LIKE a midnight train. 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:26,760 Shuffle drums creeping in. 7 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,960 I was born in a back street alley 8 00:00:54,879 --> 00:01:00,960 with the rain beating on my mama's door. 9 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,719 Yeah, the preacher said that girl going 10 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,799 to suffer. 11 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:10,400 Lord, he never lied before. 12 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:14,560 Got a man with a whiskey breath 13 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:18,240 and hands cold as ironing chains. 14 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:22,000 Every night it brought me sorrow. 15 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:25,840 Every morning brought me pain. 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:31,600 But deep down in these weary bones, 17 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:34,240 I hear heaven call my name. I got chains 18 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:37,520 in the smoke. 19 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:41,280 Fire in my veins. 20 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:45,920 Every scar upon this body. 21 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:49,040 Still remembers all the pain. Yeah. I 22 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:52,880 crawled through hellfire, 23 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:57,119 but the devil couldn't hold my soul. 24 00:01:52,880 --> 00:02:02,920 Now I'm standing tall and dangerous 25 00:01:57,119 --> 00:02:02,920 like a storm nobody controls. 26 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:18,920 Dirty harmonica screaming 27 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:18,920 over a slow shuffle groove. 28 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:26,000 ELECTRIC GUITAR answering 29 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:29,920 like thunder 30 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:33,760 in a dark bar room. 31 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:37,680 I poured my tears in whiskey glasses. 32 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:41,440 Watched them burn beneath neon lights. 33 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:45,200 All those crooked men kept talking, 34 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:49,200 but they never broke my fight. 35 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:52,959 I WORE BRUISES LIKE SILVER JEWELRY, 36 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:56,879 carried sorrow like a loaded gun. 37 00:02:52,959 --> 00:03:00,080 Still I danced through every heartbreak. 38 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:03,120 Like a queen who wouldn't run. 39 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,640 Oh, these midnight streets done taught 40 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:08,239 me 41 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:13,120 how to bleed and still survive. 42 00:03:08,239 --> 00:03:16,319 I got chains in the smoke. 43 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:19,840 Fire in my veins. 44 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:24,000 Every wound became A SERMON. 45 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:27,760 Every loss became my strength. 46 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,680 Yeah. I walk through dark water 47 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:36,000 with the blues down in my soul. 48 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:41,080 Now I sing like judgment thunder 49 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,080 and the whole damn city knows. 50 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:48,360 Oh Lord, 51 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,360 can you hear this tired woman cry? 52 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:56,360 I've been BURIED UNDER HARD TIMES. STILL 53 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,360 too mean to die. 54 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:08,239 Tell that devil he don't own me anymore. 55 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:11,720 I broke every rusty chain and kicked out 56 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:11,720 every door. 57 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:46,280 Blue shuffle drums 58 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:54,080 crowd. I'm clapping in the distance. 59 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:58,240 Oh, 60 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,759 I got chains in the smoke, 61 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,919 fire 62 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:05,040 in my veins. 63 00:05:01,919 --> 00:05:09,759 I got freedom in my shadow 64 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:13,280 and rebellion in my name. Yeah, THE 65 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:17,199 LIGHT TRIED HARD TO BREAK ME, 66 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:21,919 but I made these blues my throne. 67 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:24,720 NOW I HOWL LIKE WILD THUNDER. 68 00:05:21,919 --> 00:05:28,360 A hard road woman 69 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,360 finally home. 70 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:36,479 Yeah. 71 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:40,520 Pour another drink, baby. 72 00:05:36,479 --> 00:05:40,520 This woman's still burning. 73 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,319 Slow dirty guitar. 74 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,960 Crawling through a smoky room. 75 00:06:18,479 --> 00:06:26,120 Slow dough. 76 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,120 Crawling through a smoky room. 77 00:06:26,319 --> 00:06:34,360 Slow dirty guitar. 78 00:06:29,759 --> 00:06:34,360 Crawling through a smoky room. 79 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,759 I'm on a crying low like a midnight 80 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:42,960 train. 81 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:47,199 Shuffle drums creeping in. 82 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:51,039 I was born in a back street alley 83 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:53,280 with the rain beating on my mama's door. 84 00:06:51,039 --> 00:06:55,199 Yeah, the preacher said that girl going 85 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:59,360 to suffer. 86 00:06:55,199 --> 00:07:03,280 Lord, he never lied before. 87 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:07,680 Got a man with whisky breath 88 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:11,759 and hands cold as I'm changed. 89 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:16,000 Every night he brought me sorrow. 90 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:20,000 Every morning brought me pain. 91 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:24,160 But deep down in these weary bones 92 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:28,960 I hear heaven call my name. 93 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:32,400 I got chains in the smoke. 94 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:36,479 Fire in my veins. 95 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:40,639 Every scar upon this body. 96 00:07:36,479 --> 00:07:44,560 still remembers all the pain. 97 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:48,880 Yeah. I crawled through hellfire, 98 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:53,039 but the devil couldn't hold my soul. 99 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:57,039 Now I'm standing tall and dangerous 100 00:07:53,039 --> 00:08:02,120 like a stone nobody controls. 101 00:07:57,039 --> 00:08:02,120 Slow dirty guitar crawling. 102 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:13,000 I came out of Memphis burning 103 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:20,199 with a storm beneath my skin. 104 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:27,240 Every man I ever trusted 105 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:34,039 left me drowning in their sin. 106 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,240 I had bruises on my spirit, 107 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,600 black dust on my high heel shoes. 108 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,880 Spend my young years fighting devils 109 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,519 inside back room. Whiskey blues. 110 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:10,040 That man love like poison honey. 111 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,920 Sweet enough to pull me near. 112 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,959 Then it break me after midnight. 113 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:31,880 Leave me crying in cheap beer. 114 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:38,440 But I ain't no church bell angel. 115 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:45,320 I got lightning in my soul. 116 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:52,839 Every scar became my weapon. 117 00:09:53,600 --> 00:10:00,839 Every hard night 118 00:09:56,959 --> 00:10:00,839 made me whole. 119 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,279 I'M A WHISKEY BLOODED WOMAN. 120 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:15,640 Hard times call my name. 121 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,760 Yeah. I dance inside the fire 122 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,880 while the whole world spits a chain. 123 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:41,240 I got smoke down in my lungs. 124 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,240 Got the blues inside my bones. 125 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:51,720 But the devil couldn't chain me. This 126 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,720 wild woman made it home. 127 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:32,839 EVERY JUKEBOX IN THIS city 128 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,839 knows of sorrow that I sing. 129 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:43,480 I done slept beside destruction 130 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:43,480 where heartbreak like a diamond ring. 131 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:53,279 Old men stare from borrow corners 132 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:57,120 WHILE I LAUGH THROUGH ALL MY PAIN. 133 00:11:53,279 --> 00:12:01,920 Cuz these tied hands still tremble 134 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:05,519 but they never wore no chains. 135 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:09,880 Oh Lord, 136 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:09,880 can you hear my heavy cry? 137 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:19,600 I've been beaten by the hard road. 138 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:23,519 Still too strong to die. I'm a whiskey 139 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:25,279 blooded woman with rebellion in my 140 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:29,760 veins. 141 00:12:25,279 --> 00:12:32,480 Every lover tried on me. Every night 142 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:36,160 brought different pain, 143 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:40,880 but I how louder than thunder 144 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:43,440 when that low down train rolls by. 145 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,399 Yeah. This hard road woman still 146 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:52,000 standing 147 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:54,959 with blue fire in her eyes. 148 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:59,839 Tell that devil he can go back 149 00:12:54,959 --> 00:13:04,079 underground. I'm buried all my sorrow in 150 00:12:59,839 --> 00:13:08,880 the dirty blues of town. PREACHER SAID, 151 00:13:04,079 --> 00:13:13,760 "GIRL, YOUR SO too rough to save." 152 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:19,240 But these rough hands built a kingdom 153 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:19,240 from the hurt life gave. 154 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,839 Overdriving tube band growling 155 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:37,880 loose piano 156 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,880 rolling behind the groove. 157 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:45,680 I'm a whiskey blooded woman born from 158 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:49,360 smoke in broken dreams. 159 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:53,120 Every wound became a highway. 160 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:56,880 Every cry became a scream. 161 00:13:53,120 --> 00:14:00,800 Yeah. The night tried hard to kill me. 162 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:06,199 But I turn my pain to gold. 163 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:06,199 Now I reign above this juke joint 164 00:14:06,399 --> 00:14:13,560 like a queen too wild to hold. 165 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Pour that whiskey one more time. 166 00:14:21,199 --> 00:14:25,480 This woman's still burning. 167 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,720 M 168 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,639 I came out of Memphis burning 169 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,480 with a storm beneath my skin. 170 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:05,920 Every man I ever trusted 171 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:10,079 left me drowning in their sin. 172 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:14,160 I came out of Memphis burning 173 00:15:10,079 --> 00:15:17,680 with a storm beneath my skin. 174 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:21,680 Every man I ever trusted 175 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:25,600 left me drowning in their sin. 176 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:29,519 I had bruises on my spirit, 177 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:33,600 black dust on my high heel shoes. 178 00:15:29,519 --> 00:15:37,519 Spent my young years fighting devils 179 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:41,519 inside back room. Whisky blues 180 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:45,440 that made love like poison honey. 181 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:49,519 Sweet enough to pull me near. 182 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:53,440 Then it break me after midnight. 183 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:57,360 Leave me crying in cheap beer, 184 00:15:53,440 --> 00:16:01,720 but I ain't no church bell angel. 185 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,720 I got lightning in my 186 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:13,560 I was raised down by the river 187 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,199 where hard luck sleeps at night. 188 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,680 Mama prayed above my bedside 189 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:33,720 while the blues held me tight. 190 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:40,199 Every man I ever loved 191 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:47,000 came with whiskey on his breath. 192 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:55,959 Sweet talk in the moonlight, 193 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:55,959 cold hands, 194 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,440 smelling like death. 195 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,400 I wore pain like black satin 196 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,880 wrapped around these weary bones. 197 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:26,600 All them low down alley lovers 198 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:26,600 left my poor soul all alone. 199 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:33,480 But these high heels keep on walking 200 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,640 through the mud and broken glass. 201 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:47,760 EVERY SCAR ACROSS my body, 202 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:51,400 just another ghost 203 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,400 from the past. 204 00:17:51,919 --> 00:17:57,160 There's a devil in my whiskey. 205 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,799 Underneath my skin 206 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:16,280 EVERY TIME I TRY to leave him. 207 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:16,280 Lord, it pulls me back again. 208 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:23,000 BUT I HOW LOUDER THAN thunder 209 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,640 when those midnight blues begin. 210 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:38,160 I'm a hard road woman, baby. 211 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:42,039 Still too wild 212 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,039 to ever been. 213 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:18,280 That man chained me with his anger 214 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,960 like a dog tied to his pain. 215 00:19:25,679 --> 00:19:30,520 But I broke them rusty shackles 216 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:36,280 behind a midnight train. 217 00:19:37,039 --> 00:19:42,840 Now the bar lights blow like heaven 218 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,160 ON THESE TIRED rebel eyes. 219 00:19:50,880 --> 00:20:00,520 And the whole damn room goes silent 220 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:00,520 every time this woman cries. 221 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:04,960 Oh Lord, 222 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,280 you know this heart been dragged through 223 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,520 hell, 224 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:14,080 but these bruised hands still keep 225 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:18,240 fighting. And I wear my sorrow. 226 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:21,120 THERE'S A DEVIL IN MY WHISKEY. 227 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:25,960 Smoke 228 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:25,960 rising from my soul. 229 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,840 Every wound became a sermon. 230 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:38,039 Every heartbreak took its toll. 231 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,159 But I dance inside destruction 232 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,159 like the queen of broken dreams. 233 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:53,760 Yeah, this heart luck woman still 234 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:58,440 burning, 235 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:58,440 stronger than she seems. 236 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:06,880 Preacher called me sinful. 237 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:10,640 Men called me dangerous, 238 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:16,039 but none of them carried these chains. 239 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:16,039 NONE OF THEM SURVIVED THIS FIRE. 240 00:21:29,919 --> 00:21:36,960 There's a devil in my whiskey, but the 241 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,400 devil don't know me now. 242 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:43,840 I done crawled through smoke and sorrow. 243 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:47,440 Still too mean to bow. 244 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:50,960 Yeah, the blues live in my bloodstream 245 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:56,880 like a long black midnight train. 246 00:21:50,960 --> 00:22:01,640 And this rough cut woman still standing 247 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,640 laughing in the rain. 248 00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:07,840 Yeah. 249 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:11,960 Pour another drink. 250 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,960 This woman ain't done yet. 251 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:15,559 Oh, 252 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,480 hey. 253 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:40,120 H 254 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:11,440 I WAS RAISED DOWN BY the river 255 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:11,440 where hard luck sleeps at night. 256 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:19,120 Mama prayed above my bedside 257 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:22,559 while the blues held me tight. 258 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:26,400 Every man I ever loved 259 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:30,320 came with whiskey on his breath. 260 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:33,440 Sweet talk in the moonlight. Cold hands 261 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:37,120 smelling like death. 262 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:40,799 I wore pain like black satin 263 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:44,240 wrapped around these weary bones. 264 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:48,080 All them low down alley lovers left my 265 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:51,840 poor soul all alone. 266 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:55,600 But these high heels keep on walking 267 00:23:51,840 --> 00:24:00,280 through the mud and broken glass. 268 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,280 Every scar across my body. 269 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,480 Wow. 270 00:24:20,799 --> 00:24:23,799 Heat. 271 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:40,279 I walk through Mississippi fire 272 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,640 with blood stains on my shoes. 273 00:24:52,159 --> 00:24:56,760 Every road I ever travel 274 00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:04,760 led me deeper in the blues. 275 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:13,480 MAMA TOLD ME, "CHILD, STAY PRAYING." 276 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,559 Daddy drank his life 277 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:21,559 away. 278 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:28,760 I learned young how love can wound you 279 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:34,600 then still ask your heart to stay. 280 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:46,000 I had a man down in Chicago 281 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:50,240 mean as win a railroad steel. 282 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:54,720 He kissed sweet and crowded barrooms, 283 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:58,159 then left bruises I could feel. 284 00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:02,240 EVERY NIGHT SMELLED LIKE CHEAP WHISKEY, 285 00:25:58,159 --> 00:26:06,400 cigarette smoke and broken trust. 286 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:09,679 But this hard luck woman kept breathing, 287 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:14,000 even crawling through the dust. 288 00:26:09,679 --> 00:26:18,159 I'm a midnight chain woman, 289 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:22,320 but these chains don't hold me now. 290 00:26:18,159 --> 00:26:26,880 I got thunder in my bloodream 291 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:30,799 and survival in my growl. Oh yeah, the 292 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:35,120 blues live in my body 293 00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:39,520 like hot fire beneath my skin. 294 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:43,520 And every scar that life done gave me 295 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:46,840 made this wild soul hard 296 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,840 as sin. 297 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,360 Heat. Heat. 298 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Preacher 299 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:30,799 said I talk too reckless. 300 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:35,039 Men said I was born too rough. 301 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:39,360 But none of them stood beside me. 302 00:27:35,039 --> 00:27:43,600 When the nights got cold and tough, 303 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:47,919 I DONE CRIED BESIDE THE jukebox 304 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:52,320 while the whole club turned away. 305 00:27:47,919 --> 00:27:56,640 Still I rose like gospel thunder. 306 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:58,559 Every damn I'm heartbreaking day. 307 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,919 Oh Lord, 308 00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:05,840 CAN YOU HEAR THIS WEARY CHILD? 309 00:28:01,919 --> 00:28:07,360 I'VE BEEN BATTERED BY HARD LIVING, 310 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,360 still 311 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:11,600 too angry 312 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:16,399 to die. 313 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:20,080 I'm a midnight chain woman, smoking 314 00:28:16,399 --> 00:28:24,320 flames inside my soul. 315 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:27,679 Every low down man who hurt me 316 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:32,480 only taught me selfont control. 317 00:28:27,679 --> 00:28:37,120 Yeah, I dance inside destruction. 318 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:41,600 With my head held high in pain 319 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:46,679 like a black storm rolling through town. 320 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,679 Laughing hard inside the rain. 321 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:56,440 Overdriving hollow body guitar. 322 00:28:52,159 --> 00:28:56,440 Crying slow and greasy. 323 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:02,799 Loose drums shuffle behind the beat. 324 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:06,399 M. 325 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:10,399 They tried to bury this woman, 326 00:29:06,399 --> 00:29:13,760 tried to drown her in sorrow, 327 00:29:10,399 --> 00:29:18,320 tried to chain her to bad love. 328 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:22,720 But baby, you can't break a soul. 329 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:27,200 Already baptized in the blues. 330 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:31,039 I'm a midnight chain one 331 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:33,440 and I ain't afraid no more. 332 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:35,360 I kicked heartbreak through the back 333 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,960 alley 334 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:44,080 and slam freedom through the door. 335 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:47,600 Yeah, the devil knows my first name, 336 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:50,799 but he trembles when I sing 337 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:56,360 cuz this rough cut blues queen baby 338 00:29:50,799 --> 00:29:56,360 still got fire in everything. 339 00:29:56,399 --> 00:30:03,360 Pour another whiskey. 340 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:07,480 Turn that jukebox low. 341 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,480 This woman's still burning. 342 00:30:14,399 --> 00:30:18,760 M. Yeah. 343 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,240 Mhm. 344 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,399 I was born where the street lights 345 00:30:58,399 --> 00:31:01,399 flicker 346 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,880 and sorrow sleeps beside the train. 347 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:15,799 MAMA SCRUB FLOORS FOR nickels 348 00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:23,880 while daddy drowned himself in pain. 349 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:32,520 I learned young how love can cut you 350 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:40,200 like a razor through soft skin. 351 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:48,200 Every sweet kiss tasted holy 352 00:31:51,679 --> 00:31:57,320 till the darkness 353 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,320 settled in. 354 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:05,960 I had a man with gold chewed laughter 355 00:32:08,159 --> 00:32:13,960 and whiskey dripping from his tongue. 356 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,080 He pulled me deep into destruction 357 00:32:24,159 --> 00:32:30,039 before my life had just begun. 358 00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:40,559 Every midnight bar 359 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:43,760 left another bruise to hide. 360 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:48,559 But this black SMOKE WOMAN KEPT walking 361 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:52,399 with hell fire in a stride out. That 362 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:56,320 black smoke mama 363 00:32:52,399 --> 00:33:00,799 with thunder in my chest. 364 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:04,559 EVERY HARD TIME TRIED TO BREAK ME, but I 365 00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:08,799 outlived all the rest. 366 00:33:04,559 --> 00:33:12,880 Yeah. The blues live in my bloodstream 367 00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:17,279 like hot liquor in my veins. 368 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:23,320 And I sing so rough and reckless. 369 00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:23,320 Make the whole room feel my pain. 370 00:33:43,919 --> 00:33:49,720 Dirty 371 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,720 amplified harmonica 372 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:55,159 screaming over an old shuffle groove. 373 00:33:55,360 --> 00:34:02,399 Electric guitar growling slow 374 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:06,640 behind the beat. 375 00:34:02,399 --> 00:34:11,119 PREACHER CALLED ME trouble born. 376 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:14,560 Said no good woman acts this wild. 377 00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:19,359 But he never saw me crawling through the 378 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:23,520 cold nights as a child. 379 00:34:19,359 --> 00:34:26,720 I done danced with bad decisions. 380 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:31,040 I done slept beside regret. 381 00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:34,560 Still I rise each smoky morning. 382 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:37,919 meaner than the pain I missed. 383 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:41,760 Oh Lord, you know these tired bones 384 00:34:37,919 --> 00:34:44,000 still ache, but every chain around this 385 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:48,800 woman 386 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:52,320 only TOLD HER HOW TO break down that 387 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:56,480 black smoke. Mama, 388 00:34:52,320 --> 00:35:00,880 and I ain't afraid no more. 389 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:02,960 I kicked heartbreak down the staircase 390 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:09,680 and walk straight through freedom's 391 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:13,839 door. Yeah, MY SOUL BURNS LIKE A furnace 392 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:18,160 underneath this battered skin. 393 00:35:13,839 --> 00:35:23,480 And these low down blues keep preaching. 394 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,480 I was born too hard to bend. 395 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:33,520 Overdriving hollow body guitar 396 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:37,280 crying through smoky room ambience. 397 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:40,839 Piano rolling loose behind clapping 398 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,839 barroom hands. 399 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:48,320 MEN TRIED TO OWN ME. 400 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:52,720 Tried to drown me in whiskey and sorrow. 401 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:56,160 But baby, you can't bury a woman 402 00:35:52,720 --> 00:36:01,200 already raised by the blues. 403 00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:05,680 I'm that black smoke mom. 404 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:10,000 Last woman standing tall. 405 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:13,280 Every scar became my armor. 406 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:18,400 Every heartbreak made me wrong. 407 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:22,880 Yeah. The devil knows my footsteps 408 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:27,280 and the night still calls my name. 409 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:32,800 But this rough cut blues queen baby 410 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:37,200 still got fire in every flame. 411 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:41,480 Turn that juke box lower. 412 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,480 Pour the whiskey slow. 413 00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:45,800 This one I'm still burning. 414 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,280 M 415 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,880 Greasy electric guitar 416 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:21,560 sliding through a dim whiskey bar. 417 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:30,920 Loose shuffle drums dragging slow behind 418 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,920 the beat. 419 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:38,599 Oh, 420 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:38,599 >> I'm on a crying like a midnight siren. 421 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:08,280 I came up from the gutter, baby, 422 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,280 where the cold wind always moans. 423 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,119 Mama worked her fingers bloody, 424 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:20,119 trying to keep us fed at home. 425 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,520 Every man I ever trusted 426 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:32,520 HAD A HARD HEART AS A GRAVE. 427 00:38:33,359 --> 00:38:38,440 They love me sweet beneath neon 428 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,920 then treated me like a slave. 429 00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:51,240 I WORE PAIN LIKE BLACK LEATHER. 430 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,160 WRAPPED TIGHT AROUND MY SOUL. 431 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,320 Spent long nights in smokey goo joints 432 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,760 TRYING TO DRINK MYSELF HOME. 433 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:16,000 I DONE DANCED with desperation. 434 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:18,960 I done kissed the edge of sin. Still 435 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:22,400 this hard love woman STANDING WITH BLUE 436 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:24,800 FIRE burning within. I'm a hard love 437 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:29,040 queen baby 438 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:32,560 born beneath the broken sand. EVERY SCAR 439 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:34,960 UPON MY BODY TELLS A STORY OF SURVIVAL 440 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:38,160 AND CRIME. YEAH. THE BLUES run through 441 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:40,320 my bloodream like hot whiskey in the 442 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,680 rain. 443 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:49,720 And I sing so rough and reckless. MAKE 444 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:49,720 THE WHOLE damn room feel pain. 445 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,440 Dirty amplifier. 446 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,160 Dirty amplified. 447 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,160 Dirty amplified. 448 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:13,720 Dirty amplified. Dirty amplified. 449 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:21,599 Dirty amplify. Dirty amplify. 450 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:24,560 Dirty amplifier. 451 00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:28,839 Electric guitar answering with sharp 452 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,839 Chicago blue stabs. 453 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:37,119 That low down man from Memphis 454 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,240 tried to chain me to his lies. 455 00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:43,200 Said a woman ought to suffer. said 456 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:46,320 rebellion ain't ladylike, 457 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:49,440 but I shattered every bottle 458 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:52,240 that he ever threw my way. 459 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:56,640 Now I walk these midnight streets like 460 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:58,800 judgment day in high heels, baby. 461 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:02,240 Oh Lord, 462 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:05,599 you know I carried heavy pain, 463 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:09,440 BUT EVERY ROAD THAT TRIED TO BREAK ME 464 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:12,960 ONLY make me wild again. I'm a holler 465 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:17,520 queen, baby. Still too dangerous to 466 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:21,200 tame. Every heartbreak built a kingdom. 467 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:24,800 Every bruise became a flame. Yeah. The 468 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:28,720 devil whispers softly, but he trembles 469 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:31,520 when I sing. Cuz this rough cut woman 470 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:35,560 still got thunder 471 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,560 underneath her skin. 472 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,880 Overdriving. 473 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,440 Hollow body guitar. 474 00:41:49,119 --> 00:41:53,720 Growling slow and nasty. 475 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:04,319 Loose drums swinging deep in the pocket. 476 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:08,319 Crowd noise 477 00:42:04,319 --> 00:42:10,880 echoing softly through cigarette smoke. 478 00:42:08,319 --> 00:42:14,319 M. 479 00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:16,800 They call me broken, 480 00:42:14,319 --> 00:42:20,400 call me sinful, 481 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:22,319 call me too loud for a woman. 482 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,319 But baby, 483 00:42:22,319 --> 00:42:29,599 you don't survive these hard streets 484 00:42:26,319 --> 00:42:33,520 by singing soft. 485 00:42:29,599 --> 00:42:35,839 I'm a hard love free baby. Last woman 486 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:39,680 standing tall. 487 00:42:35,839 --> 00:42:42,800 I made a throne from sorrow 488 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:46,400 and I outlived it all. Yeah. My soul 489 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:50,079 still burns like lightning inside this 490 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:53,839 tired frame. And these deep south blues 491 00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:56,160 keep preaching. A hard road woman can't 492 00:42:53,839 --> 00:42:59,280 be chained. 493 00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:02,560 Pull the whiskey one more time. 494 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:06,760 Turn the juke box down low. 495 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,760 This one still got fire. 496 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,760 Nine slow rolling shovel groove. 497 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:56,599 Two bam huming dirty through cigarette 498 00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:56,599 smoke. 499 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:09,240 Mama said this world going to hurt you. 500 00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:16,760 And Lord, 501 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,760 she wasn't wrong again. 502 00:44:22,319 --> 00:44:26,920 Every alley smelled like trouble. 503 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,720 Every street light bled the blues. 504 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,720 I LEARNED HOW TO FIGHT through sorrow. 505 00:44:41,839 --> 00:44:47,960 and worn out high heel shoes. 506 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:59,760 Had a man drank me as gasoline 507 00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:03,040 with fist heavy as regret. 508 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:08,800 He would hold me close at midnight, 509 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:08,800 then leave me broken by sunrise sweat. 510 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:15,079 I POURED MY TEARS in whiskey glasses. 511 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:21,079 Watched them drown beneath neon flames. 512 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:32,200 Still this rough cut woman kept walking. 513 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:32,200 Too proud to die in shame. 514 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:40,240 I hear that whiskey train coming. 515 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:43,839 rolling deep through my soul. 516 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:48,079 Every heartbreak tried to own me, 517 00:45:43,839 --> 00:45:51,839 but it never took control. 518 00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:55,920 Yeah. The blues burn in my bloodream 519 00:45:51,839 --> 00:45:59,440 like hot steel against my skin. 520 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:04,280 And this wild southside woman 521 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,280 still too dangerous to bend. 522 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:30,680 amplified harmonica 523 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,680 screaming over loose shuffle drums. 524 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,880 Greasy electric guitar sliding behind 525 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,880 the groove. 526 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:46,920 Piano rolling like thunder 527 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:46,920 through a smoky barroom. 528 00:46:48,079 --> 00:46:55,280 Preacher told me, "Girl, stay humble." 529 00:46:51,599 --> 00:46:58,800 Said, "Rebellion brings despair." 530 00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:02,800 But he never stood beside me. 531 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:06,160 When survival filled the air, I done 532 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:09,359 crawled through cheap motel nights. I 533 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:13,119 done slept beside despair. 534 00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:18,720 Still I rise each smoky morning with 535 00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:21,119 blue fire in my stare. Oh Lord, CAN YOU 536 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:24,960 HEAR YOUR DAUGHTER CRY? 537 00:47:21,119 --> 00:47:30,079 I'VE BEEN BEATEN DOWN BY HARD LOVE. 538 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:30,079 Still too mean to die. 539 00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:38,160 I hear that whiskey train coming, 540 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:42,640 shaking windows through the night. 541 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:45,200 Every scar became my armor. Every bruise 542 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:48,800 became my fight. 543 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:52,319 Yeah, I sing like burning thunder 544 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:56,880 while the low down men all pray. 545 00:47:52,319 --> 00:48:01,000 Cuz this hard luck woman, baby, 546 00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,000 ain't nobody slave. 547 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:09,720 Overdriving hollow body guitar 548 00:48:10,319 --> 00:48:14,359 growling low and nasty. 549 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,599 Glasses clinking near the juke box. 550 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:31,160 M. They tried to drown me in sorrow, 551 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,160 tried to chain me to bad love, 552 00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:37,520 tried to break this woman's slow, 553 00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:40,480 but baby, 554 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:44,559 you can't kill a soul. 555 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:48,559 Already baptized in the blues. 556 00:48:44,559 --> 00:48:51,920 I hear that whiskey train coming 557 00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:55,760 still rolling through my veins 558 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:59,440 and every mile of hurt I travel 559 00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:02,880 only taught me how to rain. 560 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:06,720 Yeah, the devil knows my left 561 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:10,319 and the night still calls my name. 562 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:13,440 But this black hearted blues queen 563 00:49:10,319 --> 00:49:17,160 still got fire 564 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,160 in every flame. 565 00:49:17,359 --> 00:49:24,079 Pour another drink. 566 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:27,119 Let that juke box cry. 567 00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:30,119 This woman still burning 568 00:49:27,119 --> 00:49:30,119 tonight. 569 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:55,160 Low harmonica morning through thick 570 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:55,160 cigarette smoke. 571 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:04,119 Electric guitar humming dirty through an 572 00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:04,119 old tube amp. 573 00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:12,440 Slow shuffle drums 574 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:12,440 dragging behind the be. 575 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,800 I was raised where the cold wind 576 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,040 whistles 577 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,520 through broken windows and railroad 578 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:49,520 cries. 579 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:54,559 Mama sang old gospel warnings 580 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:58,480 while sorrow slept inside her eyes. 581 00:50:54,559 --> 00:51:02,720 Every man I LOVE BROUGHT trouble 582 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:07,040 wrapped in sweet perfume and lies. 583 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:11,680 I gave my heart to hungry wolves 584 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:16,079 who fed on tears and lullabies. 585 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:20,400 Spend long nights in smoky bar rooms, 586 00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:24,079 dancing slow beneath the neon flames, 587 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:29,040 drinking hard to kill the memories. 588 00:51:24,079 --> 00:51:33,440 Still waking up, calling names. 589 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:37,839 He said a woman should stay quiet, 590 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:42,000 bow her head, and know her place. 591 00:51:37,839 --> 00:51:45,680 But I got thunder in my spirit and blue 592 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:50,720 fire in my face. 593 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:54,720 THERE'S SMOKE ON MY SOUL. BABY, 594 00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:58,960 fire underneath my skin. 595 00:51:54,720 --> 00:52:02,960 Every hard road tried to break me. Still 596 00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:04,880 this wild heart won't give in. 597 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,359 Yeah. The blues run through my 598 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:12,000 bloodstream 599 00:52:07,359 --> 00:52:16,160 like whis we're scared through the rain. 600 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:21,480 And I sing so rough and reckless. 601 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:21,480 Make the whole damn room feel pain. 602 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:36,680 Amplified harmonica 603 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:36,680 screaming over a greasy shuffle groove. 604 00:52:38,079 --> 00:52:46,280 Electric guitar answering 605 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:46,280 with sharp Chicago blues phrases. 606 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:55,240 Piano rolling heavy 607 00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,240 in the background haze. 608 00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:05,440 I wore bruises like fine jewelry. 609 00:53:01,119 --> 00:53:08,800 Covered shame with velvet smiles. 610 00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:13,880 Walk through hell in high heel shoes 611 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:13,880 for a thousand lonely miles. 612 00:53:14,319 --> 00:53:22,960 Preacher called me dangerous. 613 00:53:17,599 --> 00:53:26,960 Said my soul was born too rough. 614 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:29,839 But hard times built this woman and hard 615 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:31,839 times made me tough. 616 00:53:29,839 --> 00:53:36,240 Oh Lord, 617 00:53:31,839 --> 00:53:40,880 you know I carried misery long enough. 618 00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:44,079 But every chain around my body 619 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:48,400 only taught me 620 00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:53,280 not to trust 621 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:57,359 THAT SMOKE ON MY SOUL. baby 622 00:53:53,280 --> 00:54:01,359 and lightning in my veins. 623 00:53:57,359 --> 00:54:05,839 Every heartbreak left a scar, 624 00:54:01,359 --> 00:54:10,240 but none of them left me chained. 625 00:54:05,839 --> 00:54:14,720 Yeah, I dance inside destruction 626 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:18,559 like a queen to wild to tame. 627 00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:23,720 And this blackarted blues WOMAN STILL 628 00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:23,720 GOT power in her name. 629 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:34,520 Overdriving 630 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:34,520 hollow body guitar crying low and dirty. 631 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:40,359 Loose shuffle drums swinging through the 632 00:54:37,359 --> 00:54:40,359 haze. 633 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:51,200 Men tried to own me, 634 00:54:48,559 --> 00:54:54,400 tried to bury me beneath bad love and 635 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:58,960 cheap liquor. 636 00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:02,680 But baby, you can't silence a woman 637 00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,680 raised by pain 638 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:12,160 and baptized in the blues. 639 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:16,559 THERE'S SMOKE ON MY SOUL, BABY, 640 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:20,800 BUT I STILL BURN BRIGHT TONIGHT. 641 00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:25,280 Every low down road behind me 642 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:29,680 only taught me how to fight. 643 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:34,319 Yeah, the devil knows my footsteps 644 00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:38,800 and the midnight knows my flame. 645 00:55:34,319 --> 00:55:42,319 But this rough cut southside woman 646 00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:46,000 still ain't bowing down in shame. 647 00:55:42,319 --> 00:55:49,960 Turn the jukebox softer. 648 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,960 Pour the whiskey slow. 649 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:55,160 This woman's still singing. 650 00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:23,799 Dirty hollow body guitar groaning 651 00:56:18,799 --> 00:56:23,799 through a smoky southside club. 652 00:56:26,559 --> 00:56:33,000 Loose shuffle drums dragging slow like 653 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,000 tide footsteps. 654 00:56:35,839 --> 00:56:40,520 Every drink until he dropped. 655 00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:57,000 Every man that ever loved me 656 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:57,000 love me mean and love me wrong. 657 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:03,319 I learned how to carry sorrow 658 00:57:04,240 --> 00:57:10,359 like an old blues gospel song. 659 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:22,720 Had a low down man from Memphis 660 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:24,640 with a heart black as cold. 661 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,720 He kissed sweet beneath whiskey 662 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:30,240 moonlight, 663 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:34,160 then tried to break my soul. 664 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:37,520 But these bruised hands kept swinging 665 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:41,440 through every dirty fight. 666 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:44,880 AND THIS ROUGH CUT WOMAN STILL standing 667 00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:46,640 in the burning neon light. I'M A 668 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,720 HELLBOUND 669 00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:52,480 WOMAN, BABY, 670 00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:56,160 with smoke inside my lungs. 671 00:57:52,480 --> 00:58:00,559 Every scar became a warning. 672 00:57:56,160 --> 00:58:04,240 EVERY CRY BECAME a song. Yeah. The blues 673 00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:06,319 LIVE IN MY BLOODREAM LIKE HOT whiskey in 674 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:10,640 my veins. 675 00:58:06,319 --> 00:58:15,240 AND I SING SO RAW and reckless. Make the 676 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:15,240 whole room shake with pain. 677 00:58:28,799 --> 00:58:34,240 Amplified harmonica screaming through 678 00:58:31,359 --> 00:58:37,359 tape hiss. 679 00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:40,839 Electric guitar stabbing sharp Chicago 680 00:58:37,359 --> 00:58:40,839 blues licks. 681 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:46,079 Piano rolling heavy 682 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:48,000 behind the shuffle groove. 683 00:58:46,079 --> 00:58:50,960 Preacher 684 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:54,960 called me sinful nature. 685 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:58,319 Said no good girl talks this loud. 686 00:58:54,960 --> 00:59:02,160 But he never heard my heartbreak. 687 00:58:58,319 --> 00:59:06,000 Crying through them midnight crowds. 688 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:09,680 I don't dance with desperation. 689 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:12,720 I don't slept with sad regret. 690 00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:16,319 Still I walk these streets like thunder. 691 00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:19,119 Ain't bowed my head down yet. 692 00:59:16,319 --> 00:59:24,079 Oh Lord, 693 00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:28,000 can you hear this tired child sing? 694 00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:33,119 Every chain they wrapped around me only 695 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:35,280 taught my soul a sting. I'm a hellbound 696 00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:38,960 woman, baby. 697 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:42,319 But the devil ain't my king. 698 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:46,400 I kicked down every dark door that tried 699 00:59:42,319 --> 00:59:50,079 to cage this broken wing. 700 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:54,160 Yeah, I drink deep from hard living. 701 00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:58,079 STILL GOT FIRE in my eyes. 702 00:59:54,160 --> 01:00:02,440 And this blackarted blues woman 703 00:59:58,079 --> 01:00:02,440 too stubborn to die. 704 01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,480 Overdriving 705 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:30,000 tube amp growling low and greasy. 706 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:32,559 Loose drums swinging behind the beat. 707 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:35,559 Whiskey glasses rattling beneath crowd 708 01:00:32,559 --> 01:00:35,559 applause. 709 01:00:38,799 --> 01:00:44,640 Men tried to bury me in sorrow, 710 01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:47,040 tried to drown me in cheap whiskey and 711 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:49,920 bad love. 712 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:53,680 But baby, 713 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:57,440 you can't destroy a woman 714 01:00:53,680 --> 01:01:02,160 who already crawled through hell 715 01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:04,559 and came back singing. I'M A HELLBOUND 716 01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:08,079 WOMAN, BABY. 717 01:01:04,559 --> 01:01:11,440 My soul standing tall. 718 01:01:08,079 --> 01:01:14,960 Every hard night made me stronger. Every 719 01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:18,559 heartbreak built these walls. 720 01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:22,319 Yeah. The midnight still whispers. And 721 01:01:18,559 --> 01:01:26,160 the blue still call my name. 722 01:01:22,319 --> 01:01:31,119 But this wild outside woman 723 01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:34,960 still got thunder in her flame. 724 01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:39,040 I turn that juke box down low. 725 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:44,040 Oh, the whiskey slow. 726 01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:44,040 This woman's still burning tonight. 727 01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,760 H. Mhm. 728 01:02:29,839 --> 01:02:34,839 I was born where the rivers muddy 729 01:02:36,559 --> 01:02:42,119 and the cold wind cuts your skin. 730 01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:49,319 Mama cried through gospel Sundays 731 01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:56,680 while daddy drowned in gin. 732 01:02:58,799 --> 01:03:03,960 I learned early life gets brutal 733 01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:11,559 when you're poor and dark and young. 734 01:03:13,599 --> 01:03:19,400 So I BUILT MY SOUL FROM HARD times 735 01:03:21,039 --> 01:03:26,359 and kept thunder on my tongue. 736 01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:33,799 had a man down in St. Louis. 737 01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:41,480 Sweetest poison in a glass. 738 01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:52,760 HE'D HOLD ME CLOSE BESIDE THE JUKEBOX, 739 01:03:47,359 --> 01:03:52,760 then leave me shattered in the past. 740 01:03:55,039 --> 01:04:03,280 Every slap became a lesson. 741 01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:08,680 Every tear became a scar. 742 01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:08,680 Still I walk them lonely streets. Baby, 743 01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:15,240 like a wounded falling star. 744 01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:22,680 I got ashes and whiskey. 745 01:04:25,039 --> 01:04:30,200 BURNING DEEP INSIDE my soul. 746 01:04:32,559 --> 01:04:38,039 EVERY HARD ROAD TRIED to kill me, 747 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:45,160 but it never took control. 748 01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:52,599 Yeah. The blues live in my bloodream. 749 01:04:54,240 --> 01:05:00,039 like found beneath my skin. 750 01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:06,200 And this rough cut woman still fighting 751 01:05:06,559 --> 01:05:11,640 too wild to ever been. 752 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:40,880 Preacher said I talk too sinful. 753 01:05:37,039 --> 01:05:42,880 Said no good girl sings this rough. 754 01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:46,880 But he never fought through midnight 755 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:48,640 hunger. On nights when love got venting 756 01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:52,720 enough, 757 01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:56,240 I done slept in cheap motel rooms with 758 01:05:52,720 --> 01:06:00,079 heartbreak laying by my side. 759 01:05:56,240 --> 01:06:04,160 Still I rise each smoky morning 760 01:06:00,079 --> 01:06:07,480 with rebellion in my strike. 761 01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,480 Oh Lord, 762 01:06:07,839 --> 01:06:14,799 can you hear this weary cry? 763 01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:18,640 I done walked through hell and sorrow. 764 01:06:14,799 --> 01:06:23,240 Still too stubborn to die. 765 01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:23,240 I got ashes and whiskey 766 01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:33,119 mixed with lightning in my veins. 767 01:06:29,359 --> 01:06:37,680 Every bruise became my armor. 768 01:06:33,119 --> 01:06:40,640 Every loss became my strength. Yeah. How 769 01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:44,559 louder than thunder 770 01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:48,559 when the jukebox starts to play. 771 01:06:44,559 --> 01:06:53,799 And this hard luck blues woman 772 01:06:48,559 --> 01:06:53,799 STILL AIN'T NOBODY slay 773 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:03,240 overdriv 774 01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,240 guitar. 775 01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:08,440 Loose drums swinging behind the beat. 776 01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,240 Men 777 01:07:15,359 --> 01:07:21,119 tried to break me slow. 778 01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:23,520 Tried to drown me in bad love and cheap 779 01:07:21,119 --> 01:07:25,359 liquor. 780 01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:28,799 But baby, 781 01:07:25,359 --> 01:07:30,960 you can't bury a woman already baptized 782 01:07:28,799 --> 01:07:35,119 in pain. 783 01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:37,119 Already married to THE BLUES. I GOT 784 01:07:35,119 --> 01:07:38,480 ASHES AND WHISKEY. 785 01:07:37,119 --> 01:07:42,720 >> Ashes and whiskey 786 01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:46,400 >> still burning through my bones. Every 787 01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:50,240 dark night built this woman. 788 01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:53,760 Every heart mile brought me home. Yeah. 789 01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:58,559 The devil knows my laughter 790 01:07:53,760 --> 01:08:03,400 and the midnight knows my name. 791 01:07:58,559 --> 01:08:03,400 But this blackarted blues queen 792 01:08:03,599 --> 01:08:09,240 still got thunder in her flame. 793 01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:16,960 Turn the lights down low. 794 01:08:12,559 --> 01:08:22,279 Pour that whiskey one more time. 795 01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:22,279 This woman's still singing tonight. 796 01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:42,199 Huh?