I've gained wealth and fame though I'm not satisfied. Oh, pray for me, Mother of mine. My footsteps have strayed from the straight narrow way. Oh, pray for me, Mother of mine.
I found a mark. Where the ink bled through. Under a song. I was writing for you. Crumpled up in a drawer. Stained with blue. Quiet and easy. What I wanted to prove.
Under the skin,. But no further in.. I've seen it before.. I was hoping for more.. . If I could choose,. I'd rather a bruise.. I'd just rather lose. Than hear another excuse..
Puffy eyes aching head echoes of the words I said. Keep following me around from room to room. Though I've climbed these stairs before and knocked on this same door.
While we are living in this world of care. Many the burdens that we have to bear. But there's a prayer bell at the Lord's right hand. Give it a ring and He will understand.
People like me, never went to college. Except the parties I was playin' for the Sigma Kappa ladies on Friday nights. I spent a lot of weekends, with some future doctors' girlfriends.
We live in trailers and apartments too. From California to Kalamazoo. Grow up get married and when that one ends. We hate sleeping alone so we get married again.
I came into the parlor,. a precious soul had gone home,. I grieved with the family. who'd been left all alone,. The tears were freely flowing. their grief so hard to bear,.
Way back in the hills, as a boy I once wandered. Buried deep in her grave lies the one that I love. She was called from this earth, a jewel for Heaven.
My days are so lonely, my nights are so blue. Though my heart is broken, it belongs to you. Of misery and sorrow, well, I've had my share. Like you I'm pretending that I don't care.
Way back when it all began. With muscle, wood and steel. Mighty man tamed the land. With a horse that rode on wheels. . It broke the heart of the red man.
The pathway of teardrops. Will show you the way. If you ever want to come back to me. You know dear that I cry. Both night and day. Since you told me you could never be true.
Pecos Bill was quite a cowboy down in Texas. The Western Superman to say the least. He was the roughest, toughest critter. Never known to be a quitter.
There's a little guy I know, who spends all day just huntin' gold. And he loves to dance the polka cowboy style. Snowy beard and turned up hat, taps his toe this way and that.
The sun goes down in Calvin county. Neon lights from an old beer sign. Shown through the window out on the sidewalk. As I walked in to pass the time;.
Oh well, I'm tired and so weary. But I must go alone. Till the lord comes and calls, calls me away, oh yes. Well the morning's so bright. And the lamp is alight.
I gave up the fast lane for a blacktop county road.. Just burned out on all that talk about the mother lode. I traded for a songbird and a bigger piece of sky..
Well I've got a long black six passenger limousine. A palace in Dallas a club in New Orleans. Diamonds on my fingers silk imported clothes. And I can tell a fast train by the way she blows.
I've had my share of lovers. But the always left me cold. You're so different from the others. You're the only one I want to hold. . And I thought love was like the moonlight.
Charlie drives a brand new Mercedes Benz.. He's got another one just like it, just like all his friends.. His wife is playing tennis and his kids are off at school..