Song Description

featuring the wonderful Wendy Lynn Staats on violin. Main guitars are my Gretsch 2420 hollowbody and my '66 Guild Starfire XII.

Lyrics

We don't say words that we don't know.
I can't believe that you must go.
I understand you're hurting now but you have got to realize
we never signed up for this show.

Chorus:
I'm hoping you can find your way to someplace whole--
find a little shelter for your soul.

We were so young when we first met.
Your eyes could light the world on fire.
You were so wild even then I knew that someday you'd be gone,
and that just stoked up our desire.

Chorus

Bridge:
I can't take you there I know.
I was hoping baby that you wouldn't go.
Now I lie awake through the night
remembering all our days together--I see you in the pale blue light.

Now I'm sitting by the fire,
feeling low as a flat tire.
I wonder if you're working now or if you're shacked up with some guy
a lonely rose among the briars.
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