The courtroom was crowded the judge waited there. My mother was crying when I left my chair. The sentence were sharpful they cut like a knife. For ninety ninety years folks is almost for life.
It?s a bruised and a fallen sky. Pressed all up against us. And it?s just as true, so far away. But I can be there by breakfast. . I just drive on through to you.
You left two weeks ago, seems like a month of Sundays and each time I called you're always gone.. And when you finally answered, your voice seems cold as ice and the next thing I heard was your dial tone..
Skinny young man. With born again eyes. And a Jesus tattoo on his arm. Leans on the wall. While the traffic goes by. The gas-mart at Fairview and Farm.
From the corners of the country. From the cities and the farms. With years and years of living. Tucked up underneath their arms. . [Chorus]. They walked away from everything.
Well, I can't forget the day we met. How I could clearly see. With picture perfect vision. She was the only one for me. . My perception of a heavenly love.
On a midnight train to Laredo. Four aces stepped aboard. Gonna find a Laredo rose. Find out who was she chose. . She is in love with a bearded sanger.
They're the talk of the town. Word's going 'round, they've tied the knot. Everybody knows, she's digging for gold. But, she swears she's not. Twenty eight and eighty three.
It's 5 a.m. in Amsterdam. And this is how I know. Not by the voice on my portable radio. The batteries are old. . It's 5 a.m. in Amsterdam. And this is how I know.
Consecrate your soul. Or there's gonna be hell to pay. You've got them where they live. Come the Judgment Day. . Father, forgive our sins. Mother, forgive us too.
My bills are paid, I've got some money saved. But It's been a week since I've seen my baby's face. Too much caffeine, and nicotine. Need a double shot of whiskey just to get to sleep.
Well you've always only used your love to tease me. You really don't need me, you only lead me on. And I always bite your line, hook and sinker. But you know I'm thinking that I'm catching on.
I see you walking up 14th Street and you don't know. That I'm walking right behind you, walking real slow. I don't want to catch up with you 'cause once we got started.
We were three little girls from school. One was pretty, one was smart and one was a borderline fool. But she's still good lookin', that woman hadn't slipped a bit.
Sunflowers shine forever as far as I can see. Im heading home to Kansas now on 7 days of leave. Therell be 14 hour work days on vacation. Keeping this ole farm alive aint no part time occupation.
Southern California, standin' in the drive. A picture perfect moment, frozen in time. Mom holdin' dad, dad holdin' me in '73. . There's me in that striped dress, beneath the Big Boy sign.
One day little Billy said momma, wheres my dad?. Fightin back the tears she said I knew one day youd ask. She walked him down the hallway, to a closet with a safe.
I don't claim to be John Wayne. Ridin' across that silver screen. I ain't that picture in your head all. These modern day wanna b's. I'm just proud that I can say.
Turned off the TV, sat down to dinner. Phone rang, we were saying grace. Grandma died left us sixty acres. The last of the old home place. . Sixty acres up on the cap rock.
The air raid siren at the high school blew. Every weekday, twelve o'clock noon. Dinner time, people as if we didn't know. I guess the city fathers liked to hear that thing blow.