Dyin Slow - Jon Licht

She left her small town

In Ohio

She headed straight down

To Mexico into my arms

We fell fast

She read me all those

Old magazines

We fell in between

Our wants and needs

Our hearts were full

Our eyes were wide

Now I’m in the corner

Crooked eyes and sunken grin

Dark red pool around my feet I’m dyin slow

And in the morning

She’s pacing back and forth again

She says I’d love to stay but you know I have to go

Well some would say the stars aligned

I was her own and she was mine

And if the sky fell to the ground

We’d smile as it was burning

Down

I lost my way home

At a game of cards

The well has run dry

The ground is hard and cracked from heat

Dead and heavy heat

Months in a bottle

I’m bleeding gin

My body hollow

I plunge against all with my feet

My heavy feet

Then I wake to see her

The hair hangs down she shakes her head

She looks right through me

Nothing there for her to know

Quiet surrender

Waste a battle in that bed

Within a month my battered chest began to grow

Some would say the stars aligned

I was her own and she was mine

And if the sky fell to the ground

We’d smile as it was burning

Down

Summer burned on

A torrid affair

A thousand moments

When she laid there and not the door

Now I’m the fool

Death is waiting

Around the bend

Through the blood and liquor

I smell the end

I rest my eyes

One final time

But then the morning

Comes along to my surprise

The sun comes bursting through and casts a bitter glow

Downstairs is empty

Coffee helps the pain subside

I stumble out the door with nowhere left to go

Yeah I’m out the door with nowhere left to go

Stumble out the door with nowhere left to go

Well some would say the stars aligned

I was her own and she was mine