Aunt Clara kept her bible right next to the phone. In case she needed a quote while she talked to someone. In my memory she smiles while the blessings said.
Ive got it all to myself now. Crack the window just a hair. Dark and close, the way I like it. Black tobacco chokes the air. I keep to myself, I lack the language.
Old Carlisle needs some money. He's running a seine out off the point. We'll all go help him though. Commercial season's closed. We might all wind up in the joint.
Where'd you go last night?. I never heard you leaving. I woke up in such a fright. When I could no longer feel you breathing. . And I could smell the rain from the storm blowing in.
Where have been? I dont want to know. Probably some place I wouldnt want to go. Who were you with? What did you see?. Whatcha talk about? Whatcha say about me?.
The skies are taller in Louisiana. The skies are wider in New Mexico. The skies in Texas kinda split the difference. They don't suit me no matter where I go.
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.
I found them Sunday morning in a bible by her bed. All laced between the pages full of scriptures Momma read. With each picture I would find a verse that she had underlined.
(P. Bunch/D. Johnson). . When God dreams. This world knows no hate. Every heart is innocent. Every child is safe. No need goes unattended. No soul goes unfreed.
(Robert Ellis Orrall/Bob Regan). . In my daddy's yard. There's a worn out wooden swing. So I asked him once. What's the story with that thing. He said "That ring of gold, that's on your momma's hand".
(Robert Ellis Orrall/Bob Regan). . In my daddy's yard. There's a worn out wooden swing. So I asked him once. What's the story with that thing. He said "That ring of gold, that's on your momma's hand".
(C. Jones/P. Bunch). . He says, "Why can't a woman see time like a man?. I just want to show her a good time tonight.". She says, "Why can't a man see time like a woman?.
Wake up honey let me talk to you. I had a dream last night that just can't come true. About a man and a woman stuck right in the middle of heaven and you know where.
We met the couple in a restaurant in Dallas. They were twice our age and so much in love. Twenty years they were celebrating. Hand in hand they couldn't sit close enough.
There's some things I know to be true. Snow is white and the ocean is blue. Rain is wet when it falls from the sky. And the stars come out every night.
She was nine years old when I first met her. She didn't dress like anyone. When she ran in a race the boys couldn't catch her. I stood back and let her run.
A mama watched her baby. Fall and bump his head. Taking baby steps across the floor. . She could have tried to catch him. But a voice inside her said.
(D. Pfrimmer/R. Wold). . When I promised you. That I would be strong. It was not a lie. It's just that I was wrong. There's no way I'd ever guess. I'd be so defenseless.
There's a house on a hill that I never will buy. 'Cause I ain't that well to do. So just get me a shanty. Honey, I'll be fine as long as I've got you.