Cross Against The Moon Lyrics - If I Don't Stay The Night - Mindy Mccready

Moonlight streaks across a picture of a Marilyn Monroe 

While the corn stocks rattle outside her bedroom window 

A strong Nebraska wind laying those prairie fields flat 

She reads those bible stories to her calico cat 

She stares into the mirror at the cross around her neck 

And hears her daddy's sermons echo through her head 

Then she closes her eyes and drifts into a dream 

Sees her name on a marquis sign beside James Dean 

It's the cross against the moon 

A restless girl in a pink bedroom 

Sweet seventeen and the silver screen 

Yellow, brick road and technicolor dreams 

Nothing's black and white, nothing's wrong or right 

Just questions that she hopes to answer soon 

It's the cross against the moon 

Whoa, cross against the moon 

Oh, yeah 

Her daddy said Sundays spent in gospel tents 

Would keep the stars from stealing her innocence 

She wants to live her life without these doubts and fears 

But the sound of brimstone burning whispers in her ears 

So she fights the battle of what she wants to be 

Trying hard to find the courage to chase her dreams 

She looks up to Marilyn, says, "You're looking good" 

She puts her bible in her suitcase, pens off to Hollywood 

It's the cross against the moon 

A restless girl in a pink bedroom 

Sweet seventeen and the silver screen 

Yellow, brick road and Technicolor dreams 

Nothing's black and white, nothing's wrong or right 

Just questions that she hopes to answer soon 

It's the cross against the moon 

Whoa, cross against the moon 

Cross against the moon