She slammed the screen door Kicked up the dust pullin? out of here Probably headed for Baton Rouge Her taillights just disappeared I tried everything
It seems like years and a million tears Since you've left the old hometown Now you've changed they say and the great white way Is your new stomping ground
It would be a good fight, baby, let's not do it I bet love knows a way around it, we don't have to go through it This time we could skip right to the
Ava Adele, I already can tell You are the one for me Well, it hasn't been long But I'm already way gone In the eyes, Ava Adele And I know that I I ain
Stare out at the horizon Start the car and call the road your friend Tell the girls and the Lord above You'll think fondly and call back now and then
the middle of God's country Smells like money, smells like shit Yeah, it smells like hell But when the cattle's all together And the pump jacks all
Everybody is looking for someone to blame Everywhere I go it's always the same Got a hole in my heart that I cannot name And I just can't keep on trying
Don't you remember who I used to be? I'm the one you said you'd always need Have you forgotten the love you promised me? Don't you remember who I used
Honey, why you calling me so late? It's kinda hard to talk right now Honey, why you crying, is everything okay? I gotta whisper 'cause I can't be too
She feels her pockets for her cigarettes Sometimes she forgets she gave 'em up She starts feeling like she needs a drink It'll help her not to think but
I found myself down at the Airways Motel Drunk and half hearted again Alone with a woman who's not gonna tell What I've been doin' and where I have been
When I was young I'd sit outside All night long and watch the lights Of the big trucks on the highway rollin' on I wished that I was in a car, drivin'
This desert wind is burnin' my face again God I'm missin' you Been runnin' blind, under a broken sky With regrets I'm sorting through But lesson learned
I always believed and followed Trusted in things, relied on faith Faith let me down in hollow Now, I have found another way All I can do is what you
J. Ingram/B. Robison I come home now my woman says to me There's got to be somewhere I'd rather be She left me staring at an open door Now I'm so broken
