Poor Adeline, Poor Adeline. Where's your heart? Where's your mind?. First in the crowd, last in the line. The world can be so unkind. The winds gonna blow, the rains gonna call.
I'm a wildflower by the highway,. Up against the rain. I'm an old man, growing tired,. Getting used to the pain,. . I'm a wildflower in a garden,. Tended everyday,.
Oh, woe is mine. Oh, woe is mine. Dark days a-coming. Lord, woe is mine. . Poor lonesome boy. Poor lonesome boy. Dark days a-coming. Oh, lonesome boy.
If you don't see me, caught in your wire. If you don't hear me, outside your door. If all this waiting, just leaves me wanting. You still would be, the sweetest waste of time.
Will you rise or will you fall?. Will you walk or will you crawl?. Will you dream in black and white. When you're sleeping cold tonight?. . Will you bend or will you break?.
Smoke don't rise, fuel don't burn. Sun don't shine no more. Late one night, sorrow come round. Scratching at my door. . But I cut my hands and break my back.
No one cries up here. No one cries up here. Shed your burden out of your tear. No one cries up here. . No one hurts up here. No one hurts up here. Sorrow fades and disappears.
I'll trade those city lights and crowded sky's. Roll down snake river with a box full of flies. . Come on white water make this old girl sing. And teach this young girl how to western swing.
Got no nails in the floor. Got no hinges on the door. Empty frames on the walls. Ain't no ghost in the halls. . You can build with earth and stone. Make a place of your own.