Beauty At The Back Door Lyrics - Singles - Billy Bob Thornton

There's a screened-in porch in the front but not the back 

The back's just got a door and a crepe myrtle bush 

And a little ole dried up garden and some woods way on the back 

There's a hickory nut tree that covers the whole roof 

Sounds like hand grenades hittin' the tin roof all the time 

There's an old wood floor that's bowed up just about everywhere 

It's got a thin coat of white stuff on it even though 

It's a dark wood floor 

There's a washing machine right outside the back door 

It's a ringer washer, the kind they don't make anymore 

I got my hand caught in it several times 

And usually got my ass whipped for it 

Even though I's the one that got hurt 

There's a snake stick, that's what they called it anyway 

By the back door because if you 

Wanted to go outside you'd usually need it 

Everything's green most of the time except in winter 

When you could see the highway, it's not a leaf on the trees 

There's an old rock, well, where we clean the squirrels 

I used to sit out by that and watch the Carbor girl come down the road 

She didn't have but one dress and that's all she needed 

It was kinda red and kinda gray and kinda tore up and kinda perfect 

She's built like a brick shit-house 

She had polish on her toenails that only went about halfway down 

Cause they was always tore up 

She used to walk across the side yard, right by the well 

And go stand by the crepe myrtle bush 

And look in the screen door 

She'd usually stand there for about ten minutes 

And back then I wasn't sure what she wanted 

These days I understand, if I'd a known then what I know now 

Well, my life might well have been pretty different 

Well, she was about eight or nine years older than I was when I first 

Started school I knew there was somethin' 

There was somethin' about the south and the air was a lot heavier 

And it seems like the women sweat even when they're not 

I don't know if you've ever heard rain on a tin roof or not 

But it's kinda tailor made for love 

And day I was in the house and I was lookin' back 

Toward the back screen door and there she was 

Standin' there for ten minutes 

The only thing different on this day is 

That my daddy went back there and talked to her 

And told her she looked pretty 

I thought the same thing but there was somethin' 'bout the look 

In his eye was a little different than the one I'd had in mine 

And he walked outside and they went past the crepe myrtle bush 

And past the well and out into the green 

And I walked to the back door and I watched for a long time 

And all I could see was trees after a time, I really couldn't see 

They came back out and my daddy was walkin' way ahead of her 

And she was kinda following, almost runnin' 

He acted like he didn't want to have anything to do with her 

And I was wondering why, why would you be so happy going in 

And so down coming out, I don't know 

That's what I thought then 

He didn't act like she's so pretty anymore 

Now I think I get it 

I think I've got it several times