Dress Of Laces Lyrics - Release Me - Lyle Lovett

[Originally by Nanci Griffith] 

And she has a dress of laces 

It's worn in many places 

The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread 

And she has a need for sharin' 

For someone warm and carin' 

And no one sees a heart that's underfed 

[Chorus:] 

Young girl in love 

Young girl in tears 

She hasn't seen the man she loves in years 

And her mother is a waitress 

At the harbour bar, good graces 

Where the seamen come a fishin' with their lines 

And it was one of them that caught her 

And left her with a daughter 

Who lives with hate and loving him in mind 

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[Chorus] 

So the young girl goes to the water 

And she calls out for her father 

But she ain't seen the old man in some time 

Yes, and he was always boastin' 

Just a drinkin' and a toastin' 

And one day he left his family far behind 

[Chorus] 

So the mother comes home a drinkin' 

With a sailor who's a thinkin' out loud 

That he might stay with them awhile 

So she loads her mother's pistol 

And she shoots him as he whistles 

A song about a sailor's life in style 

Young girl in love 

Young girl in tears 

She kills the only man she's loved in years 

And with him dies her hopes, her dreams, her fears 

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And she has a dress of laces 

It's worn in many places 

The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread 

And she has a need for sharin' 

For someone warm and carin' 

And no one sees a heart that's underfed 

And no one sees a heart that's underfed