There's a town out there I spent a little time I almost didn't make it out alive Since I did I thought I'd write a song About the things I saw while I
Chorus: Hotel keys are what I?m holding. It?s room number 225. Hotel keys are what I?m holding. I?m here but I?m barely alive. Had a hotel room in Tennessee
The news it came to me as a surprise And I knew that I would have to deal in time And as the messanger walked right off the porch A memory came to me
rangeland palace Sage brush all around Where the deer and elk do roam This place I may call home Where the flatlands stretch for miles And the mountains
Chorus: I loved you enough to let you go, dear I loved you enough to let it ride I'd hold your little hand in mine But your sweet love died I know that
that I shed too many tears I never felt the need to cry for all the wonderin' why I don't think love can ever feel that way again I searched this whole town
is pouring down With the thunder and the lightning With the rain is pouring down For two long weeks it's been falling And rolling through streets of our town
I've seen the setting sun in California Her mountain winds they howl and moan And I've seen that half-moon rising up above To the sound of the train
The sun is setting out my window Only empty fields and a lone silo In this kind of light things seem so strange And an archland burns far away I had
You and I headed straight into the west Sun is rising behind we're heading straight into the darkness And it's been so long since I've seen you But I
Chorus: To see you coming 'round the bend I just can't think of anything that could make me smile like you can When you're coming 'round the bend, noooo
There's a town out there I spent a little time I almost didn't make it out alive Since I did I thought I'd write a song About the things I saw while
My heart is like a white line Divided (???) these feelings over you My mind, it is also like a white line (???) a man without a clue You got me thinking
I am going You know I'm always guessing And I'm forever standing Wait awhile and see Nothing seems right to me Hide me from this town Fill me up when
Daylight till dark my works never done, lord have mercy on the sharecropper's Son.) My Mama's got the fever, and the babies sick too, Daddy's down town
