Marry Me Lyrics
Rock and Roll means well, but it can’t help tellin’ young boys lies.
A baby on the way’s a good enough reason to get you out alive
Get you out without having to swallow any pride.
two or eight lanes, it don’t matter, it’s just another town.
There’s a fool on every corner, on every street, in every one
and I’d rather be your fool nowhere than go somewhere and be no one's
Your Mama thinks I beat anything she’s ever seen.
This old town’s alright with me, there’s nowhere I’d rather be.
Long as they stay mad at one another, they can’t get mad at me
Like a busted hand or finding some man laying where I sleep
She don’t mean nothing to me, that’s just how it goes round here
It’s a cartoon town, I play my part, and I ain’t spoke her name in years
even if they got more money and mouth than they got balls.
That’s just how it went down, right or wrong, it’s just that way.
Just cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say....

"Rock and roll means well/But it can't help telling young boys lies" has to be one of the greatest lyrics ever written!

Cooley's songs are generally my least favorite, but the first two lines of this one are among the most awesome I've ever heard.

This is my favorite song. Period. Cooley at his best.

I always felt this song was the other side of the coin to “Zip City”. Even a sequel, if you will. While in Zip City, the narrator yearned for his girl to put out or he was going to leave his town behind. Here, the narrator is content to stay in his hometown with no aspirations to leave.
I even feel it is the exact same girl in both songs the narrator is referring to. Marry Me guy just came along after the Zip City guy has already rolled out of town. References to this town being “nowhere”, a cartoon town with his friends talking it down and highways running through it, sure sounds like Zip City to me. Just so happens this guy wants to stay instead of leave it behind, and he’s found the girl he should settle with.