I can hear the whippoorwill. Who is gonna pay my bills?. Do I know what I am doing?. Or am I headed for my ruin?. . Leopard Eyes they are crying. Do you think that I am lying?.
When I say I'm five-foot-two. I'm cheatin'. I wouldn't weigh a hundred pounds. All soakin' wet. . There's not a lot of me I know. I may be young but even so.
Summer came and days grew long. Lilacs bloomed 'round Meulfront Pond. The first place I ever held his hand. Timeless walks and breathless nights. Went rushing past like geese in flight.
All the hunnies in the bathroom stalls. Drawing their lips and making business calls. All the apathetic trust fund boys. Making the rounds in their expensive toys.
Said she was addicted to love, pack it up and follow me. And I'll show you la grande Vida. She asked me if I wanted to dance, told her just might take a chance.
She's sittin' in the front room just watchin' the TV. Paintin her nails red in black negligee. She just teased up her new wig and painted her eyelids blue.
Well it come in from the southwest. In the middle of the night. Hey loomed over Lubbock. What a gawd awmighty sight. Yeah it dipped down into the darkness.
Little sandy, little sandy, little sandy outside. A cold wind blows but it's colder inside. You lay in your crib but no lights in your eyes. Little sandy, little sandy, little sandy outside.
Lately I've been countin' up all my days. Good and bad. I found that joy has more than doubled. All the trouble I've had. . From now on I'm not gonna worry.
I been looking for a girl who drinks and smokes. Who takes a lot of work but can take a joke. Where does this girl of mine hide herself away?. Whoever she is I hope she's on her way.
One, two, three, four. . In every other song that I've heard lately. Some fellow gets shot. And his baby and his best friend both die with him. As likely as not.
Momma`s dream when she was barely sixteen. Wasn`t to run the till at dairy queen. She always knew if her wishes came true. She`d be singing on the opry stage with who`s who.
I liked it when you couldn't keep your big hands off me. And giving in was my favourite thing. But now I'm feeling temporary. I know you're looking straight through me.
All the things that we said. Did we mean them?. Every night, every kiss. Did we dream them?. But before we decide. What is mine, what is yours. . Let's talk without words.
I got a feelin' called the blues, oh Lord. Since my baby said goodbye. Lord I don't know what I'll do. All I do is sit and sigh, oh Lord. . That last long day she said goodbye.
I go home to a home where love is all gone I remember how things used to be. Over there is her picture with our little boy and it brings out the lonesome in me.
I'm sitting here a thinking but wasting my time. I know that these old blues has got me down. I've never been a winner I've been a good loser. But lives like mine's what make this world go round.
I'm praying for the rain in California. So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine. I'm sittin' in a honky in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on my mind.
In a war torn land of poverty somewhere across the sea. There's a little guy who's waiting and he looks a lot like me. His hair is like the raven or the wings of a crow.
I've got a sad sad story, friend, that I don't like to tell. I had a home and family when they locked me in this cell. I've been in here eighteen years, that's a long long time, I know.