I can see a long line of cars with their headlights on I can see kinfolks cryin' cause somebody's gone Then they gather around as it let the sinner men down And I can see an old preacher prayin' with...
(She wakes me with a kiss every morning) and she loves me to sleep every night How lucky I am to have searched for and found the beginning of the rest of my life She wakes me with a kiss every morning...
The words of her promise the flame of her faith And the love that would never drift away Where did they go Lord where did they go Somehow forever slipped out of my hands and my dreams ran away with...
Last night she let the strong red wine carry her away She smoked up her old sunshine as if it still shined every day Her hand reached out and touched my face in the shame Lord from my eyes She told me...
More than once I've cried because impatience let me down I could see the gold before the gold was found And everytime I've trusted love to lead me by the hand It circled back and left me where I stand...
If I could paint pictures I'd paint one for you A picture portraying the love we once knew Then a tear would reveal the sorrow in me As I painted white fences and evergreen trees Love can be greater...
(Today I can feel it touching home) Today pain became a real life's hurtin' thing And the choir of loneliness sang me a song Now I know what it means to lose a lifetime dream Cause today I can feel it...
I just left San Antonio heading down to the town of Laredo Got my mind on the border of Mexico Gonna stop for a tank off to go at a place called a Purple Sombrero Got my mind on the border of Mexico...
Way back in '29 somewhere in Coffeeville Was a honky tonk named Big Mable Murphy's She had a sweetheart named Little Melvin And hair would fly between them every night They say Little Melvin got wild...
Love is like a young tree that lives or dies and then becomes a mem'ry of tragedy Soon you'll be far away and free forever gone but you'll always be a part of me Tomorrow you'll be leaving my world...