HARD DARK LOVE

(2) The way I feel for you, baby, nobody could explain
I ain't nothing by myself, with you I'm everything

(2) All my life I've settled cheap, taking what I could find
Your eyes gleam like fire, well, they drive me out of my mind

(2)†Hard dark love is burning, tearing up inside my head
The thought of your ever leaving, fills me with dread

(2) Don't ever think of going, baby, no, baby not on your life
You're the man I need, you're the man I need
You know I treat you better than any wife

(2) If you ever need me, baby, you now where I'll be
Out in the junkyard, that's what you done to me

(2) Cold hands ain't nothing, for you to hold onto
A cold heart won't bleed, boys, that's what I'm telling you

(2) She got the beauty of a queen, but she's cold as ice
You best throw your blood on the table, and roll them cheating dice

I'd try to make her hold me,
She'd just walk away
I'd try to talk intelligent
She couldn't hear a word I say

(2) I'm gonna build a campfire, hold my baby above the flame
Try to warm her chilly heart, if I can't then I'm to blame

(2) It's so dark and lonesome, when you love the unloving kind
It hurts like the devil, your whole world seems deaf and blind

(2) Hear that train whistle holler, blowing through the night
Gonna leave my baby, if we have one more fight

(2) Where that train can take you, you always got to go
If my baby keeps on bothering me, I'm going out that front door

(2)†Hear them wheels are whipping, on that hard luck steel
My baby would be crying, if she knowed how I feel

(2) She can lock the door, she can't hold that whistle down
If that woman don't quit fussing, I'm gonna leave this old town

(2) She can lock the door, she can't hold that whistle down
I'm gonna leave that woman, I'm gonna leave this town

(2) The fast trains are running, on the black sky el
My baby woke up crying, said she dreamed of hell

(2) The trash is blowing wild, cross old Halstead Street
All the shambling buildings, derelicts with frosted feet
The wind blowing down Halstead, howling in its throat
Get caught there past midnight, man, that's all she wrote

(2) Snow been steady falling, where my baby lost his way
His tracks lead off to nowhere, they'll be gone by break of day

If he comes home by late morning, drops his shoes inside the door
If he says he is so sorry, he won't hurt me no more
Then I'm gonna hold him, 'til I can't hear that cold wind roar
I'm gonna hold my baby darling, 'til my arms get good and sore

(2) Leaving out, putting my house up for sale
I'm gonna dig up all my bushes, and I'm gonna cancel all my mail

(2) My baby killed me this morning, saying she'd been untrue to me
I don't know wheer I'm going, and I don't know where I'll be

(2) If you ever buy my house, please don't open up the door
You know evil will come in, and you can't live there no more

(2) People I'm gonna make it, 'cause I've been on this road before
I ain't no baby, all my life I've known the score

(2)†Don't nobody care about dying, I can tell by the way they live
They don't hardly tell the truth, and they don't know†how to give

(2) I've traveled all my life, people hear what I say
Love can make you happy, or burn your heart away

(2) Please, please believe me, you'll be dead before you know
Frozen in the ground, covered†with falling snow

(2)†If you have a love, people, better learn how to live
You can't save what you keep, you only have what you give

I ain't never seen such pure meat, packed up on anyone
Buses passing right and left, ain't got the strength†to get me one
Hey, good God woman, can't you keep your sweet dress down
The wind is blowing, and I can't leave this town

So many places where I would love to†go
But that dress keeps lifting, and my heart is beating so
Good God woman, can't you keep your sweet dress down
The wind is blowing, and I can't seem to leave this town

Trains are still running, but I can't catch me one
The dress is flying around, does it look like fun
Good God woman, can't you keep your sweet dress down
'Cause the wind is blowing, and I can't seem to leave this town

(2)† Somebody tell somebody, I got to have some help tonight
I got no sense of direction, and my†head ain't feeling right

(2)† My baby left me early this morning, my house is quiet as a tomb
I'm as nervous as a cat, prowling from room to room

(2)† I thought I heard a train running, with my baby in its mouth
Unless I miss my guess, that dirty train is headed south

(2)† Somebody tell somebody, I can't last another night
The whole sky is burning, and it gives off the saddest light
I need my baby, I need my baby, I want her back tonight

There's a dog following me, he thinks he knows my name
A mangy dog been trailing me, he thinks he knows my name
I been ignoring that dog, 'cause I know we're not the same

Acts like he's been mistreated, turned out from his home
He was whipped and neglected, thrown from his home
Now the pavement burned his feet, he acts like he's all alone

The dog kept following me, even when I said we're not the same
That dog wouldn't let me go, even when I said we're not the same
He said whatever went wrong, we were always the ones to blame

That caught me in the heart
I remember the feeling so well
The way the man couldn't please himself
So he put me through such hell

I couldn't argue with the dog, I was always in the bad
The dog knew my plight, that whatever I done was bad
Everything I did caused trouble, now people ain't that sad

I washed up that dog, until his coat had a shiny gleam
I cleaned up that dog, until he had a shiny gleam
It made me feel all better, nothing is as bad as it seems

(2) I been locked up so long, I don't remember my mama's face
I'm gonna tell all†you people, I ain't part of the human race

(2) I wish that big big sun, would melt these prison walls down
I'd give the rest of my life, for one good drunk in town

I get so weary, living from day to day
My heart gets so weary, living from day to day
In here the work ain't so hard, you just don't get no pay

(2) I wish that big big sun, would melt these prison walls aside
Then I could drift on away, and I would not have to hide

(2) When my mama was living, I never had a hungry day
I been starving and dying, ever since my mama passed away

(2) Every time I turn around, some good looking woman got my heart and gone
Last night I got in a fight and jail, and wasn't nobody to stand my bond

(2)†The wine in my pocket, tries to help me through the day
Sometimes I get so disgusted, I wish I could just go away

(2) When my mama was living, I was loved just because of me
Now I'm out here in a world of darkness, with eyes that cannot see

Published by Southern Pines Music Publishing Co. (BMI)

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