Dixieland

You left me stranded in Texas
Singing rain songs on cheap wine
There’s a strong wind blowing
Across that desert tonight

I tip my hat to the moon once more
I open my bottle and I drink it down
It takes an ocean to wash out this dirt
That’s buried with my foot somewhere deep inside my mouth

I should have known
That all this time
You’ve been moving southbound
High on the dream of dixieland dew

I’m running low on tumbleweed songs
And I’m growing tired of singing to the breeze
I ain’t so sure there’s a god out there
Maybe I’m just to blind to see

I’ll start walking
To that distant horizon
I’m gunna find me a native
To bear me away

I should have known
That all this time
You’ve been moving southbound
High on the dream of dixieland dew

Fade

I’m walking out of the cold
And into the light
Feels like I’m seeing for the first time
The first time in my life

So much has come before
And yet I’ve thrown so much away
Sometimes I think I can’t keep getting away with myself
But man I’m just too damn stubborn to change

And so I watch it all fade away
It just fades away
It slips past my face
It all fades away

We were all just common criminals
Trying to slip something past you
It all just kept getting backwards
Until we didn’t know what to do

Now I’m sure you see it coming
Like that last train going down
And I’m sure you hear my tin can whistle blowing
But you’re just too damn stubborn to turn around

So you watch it all fade away
It just fades away
It slips past your face
It all fades away

If Only

Although I’m lonely
I hear your voice
And though this sounds fading
I have no choice

I must wade through the mire
Piggy-back on this hope
I fear that I’m drowning
And I have no rope

If only for one night
She could lie by my side
But her love isn’t mine
That love isn’t mine

The winter is calling
The leaves have all gone
I’ll spend my time waiting
But you know I’m not that strong

Although I am old now
And springtime is near
My hands find no comfort
My eyes show no tears

If only for one night
I could lie by her side
But that love isn’t mine
That love isn’t mine