Well I was born on a rainy day. With a dark cloud hangin' down low. Now it follows me wherever I go. There were days I've sworn that I'd blow away. With the cold wind chillin' my bones.
Late at night on some dark deserted highway. On my way to another lonesome town. I thought I might see the first light of a new day. As it lay like fool's gold on the ground.
Dear Graciela, I'm writin' this letter. Deep in the night and I'm all alone. It's nearly breakin' my heart to tell you. I'm so far away from home. I know I said I'd never cross the border.
Everyone in Nacadoches knew Tom Ame's would come to some bad end. Well the sheriff had caught him stealin' chickens and such. By the time that he was ten.
I was walkin down the street. In the town where I was born. I was movin to a beat. That Id never felt before. So I opened up my eyes. And I took a look around.
Beggin your pardon there stranger. You look like youre new to this town. Were a long way away from the beach here. You wont see many gringos around. Well I come from West Colorado.
Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk. Of a day -I-ay-I-ay. I met a little girl and we stopped to talk. Of a fine soft day -I-ay. And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do.
If you see her out tonight. And she tells you it's just the lights. That bring her here and not her loneliness. That's what she says but sometimes she forgets.
There ain't a lot that you can do in this town. You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around. You go to school and you learn to read and write.
Way out yonder, where the wild wind blows. There's a place there lonely fools can go. Where if you hold your money, it'll burn your hand. So you buy you a ticket to the shadowland.
Jimmy joined the army cause he had no place to go. There aint nobody hirin. round here since all the jobs went. down to Mexico. Reckoned that hed learn himself a trade maybe see the world.
There's a train a comin'. There's a train a comin. Hear them tracks a hummin'. There's a train a comin'. Can't you hear her blowin'. Can't you hear her blowin'.
Just when every ray of hope was gone. I should have known that you would come along. I can't believe I ever doubted you. My old friend the blues. Another lonely night, a nameless town.
It doesn't get any lonelier than this. I believe my heart'll break. Tonight I prayed I'd die before I wake. With every breath I'm tastin' your kiss. And it's sweet upon my tongue.
Hey little guy, I can't believe you answered the phone. I guess I didn't know you could do that. Lord help me, have I been gone that long. Now, I'm in a truck stop somewhere on the Arkansas line.
I'm just an American boy raised on MTV. And I've seen all those kids in the soda pop ads. But none of 'em looked like me. So I started lookin' around for a light out of the dim.
I didn't know. You'd be in this place tonight. Then again I thought you might. Now I don't know what to do. Does it show. When my poor heart skips a beat.
Baby it's a cold hard world out there. Broken hearted people everywhere. Takin' whatever love they get. I don't wanna wind up like that, so. . (Chorus).
In the blink of an eye. Stars'll fall from the sky. No one even notices. If you think it'll help. I can walk out myself. And we won't have to go through this.
I wish I'd never come back home. It don't feel right since I've been grown. I can't find any of my old friends hangin' 'round. Won't nothin' bring you down like your hometown.