Truth & Fiction (2008)   The Only Soul Down at the edge of the bottom There’s the cold black river where you caught ’em You’d like to but you just can’t let them go They roll inside like breathin’ When you’re in that lonely season Oh, the blues is the only soul that you know Babies don’t need teaching If you recall that awful screeching The moment they arrive they seem to know Strangers at the waiting And endless world that unabating And the blues is the only soul that they know Bread can be broken Loving words can be spoken But the blues is the only soul that they know But there is pleasure in those waters They’re as old as the stove That heated up the mountains When there was darkness upon the road I’ve been to the palace I’ve been left for dead in Dallas Flown around as lonesome as a crow Found love in many people From the barroom to the steeple But the blues is the only soul that I know And when I’m in my final hours You’ll come around to bring me flowers But the blues’ll be the only soul that I know