#etones

I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man is another Child who's grown old

If dreams were lightning And thunder were desire This old house would've burned down A long time ago

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl Well, I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at Just a free ramblin' man

But that was a long time And no matter how I tried The years just flowed by Like a broken down dam

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzin' And I ain't done nothing Since I woke up today

How the hell can a person Go to work in the morning Then come home in the evening And have nothing to say?

Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go

It makes no difference where I turn I can't get over you and the flame still burns It makes no difference, night or day The shadow never seems to fade away

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door

Now there's no love As true as the love That dies untold But the clouds never hung so low before

It makes no difference how far I go Like a scar, the hurt will always show And it makes no difference who I meet They're just a face in the crowd on a dead-end street

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door

These old love letters Well, I just can't keep Just like the gambler says: "Read 'em and weep" And the dawn don't rescue me no more

Without your love, I'm nothing at all Like an empty hall, it's a lonely fall Since you've gone it's a losing battle Stampeding cattle, they rattle the walls

And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door