(I sit here and look at you, lonely room it's sad for lovers change their ways Just like me you miss the love we once knew she's left me in the world
Hoddy Holly was a cajun in the town that I was raised in She was something most amazin' to my inexperienced eyes But the fact was clearly stated she and
Bye bye love bye bye happiness hello loneliness I think I'm gonna cry Bye bye love bye bye sweet caress hello emptiness I feel like I could die Bye bye
Bottles and boxes and ten miles a day he walks slowly making his rounds Picking up bottles and boxes and papers and anything else we'd throw down He's
Here I am a livin' fast smokin' Lucky's and talkin' trash Hangin' out on a barroom stool actin' like a fool Out of work and out of luck stay out late
I keep changin' my mind just can't make up my mind I've been workin' hard and dreamin' bout all the things we're gonna do And how satisfyin' it would
You speak and the words flow like honey your kiss holds a promise so sweet But all of these things that you tell me you tell to each new love you meet
She smiled and said if you are who I think you are I'd really like to meet you I laughed and said if you are what I think you are I'd like to meet you
At the airport in Chicago Sunday night a soldier and his pretty wife came by She had brought him there to send him off to war I heard him say now don'
I hearsay your new romance has faded Just the way ours did sometime ago I've lost count of all the times I've waited For you to tell me that you've missed
I heard the front door closing softly As I wakened from my sleep With the last touch of her lips, Lord Like a whisper on my cheek And I cursed the sun
Coutin' the hours countin' the days till I'll be back in your arms to stay I left Lake Charleston on 72 and I drove the Highway 10 Took a ride at a second
It's cold as a well in Cincinnati jail I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody Shouldn't have drunk that wine it messed up my country mind But I didn't
See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still Like an echo of an age long forgotten There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened
[ with The Family ] (Daddy's been around the house too long He's watchin' TV drinking beer and singing crazy songs He don't ever yell at us so something
world a goin' You better start lovin' me again again you better start lovin' me again You hear me Bobby you better start lovin' me again You love me Bobby
I've been writin' Mary Lou letters every day But I just found out lately how she throws them all away She don't even bother to read the things I say So
In the spring of my life she came to me She brought sunshine where winter winds had blown Then I took her for my wife in the spring of my life And she