Tekster:
Jones George

Up above me are the skies like the twinkle in your eyes These things are the colors of the blues In the mail, your letter came the ink and paper looked

Empty, I was just an empty shell 'til I met you Hungry, just another hungry heart 'til I found you Loving, loving was a feeling I never knew Dying, I

I Just Turned out the Lights upstairs, I told you goodnight once again. Oh, but I did not hear you whisper a word, you must be sleeping, so I won't come

Spent a week in Houston and watched it Spent a day in Dallas missing Lord, it sure was cold up in Montreal I thought of you and I should've Acapulco,

The night shift got off early because of making repairs And I stopped off for a drink on my way home I didn't know that you loaned out the dress that

I remember my grandfather's counsel As he laid the leather to my hide He said there's just one rule in life, it always will apply You can't do wrong and

Somebody keeps paying my bar tab But the bartender won't tell me who He gives me six cold ones to go when he closes And slips me a dollar or two My woman

We don't know what it was but we had it We don't where it went but we lost it And it may never come back again but I sure wish it would We don't know

I've had choices since the day that I was born There were voices that told me right from wrong If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today Living and