A pretty girl bought a line
It didn't cost her very much
An hour or so of her time
A little bit of tenderness and such
And I set her in a beautiful night
And I loved her in a beautiful way
And I didn't think about all the loneliness and pain
I'd be living in the coming day
A chord on a couple of corny lines
Played then gone no one listened anyway
Close your eyes and try to sleep
Turn your head away let that poor boy weep
It's been empty for us for such a long time
And the rhymes are all slipping away
And everybody's singing and you can't get away
And you must be everything they say
And the Jesus is hidden away
And the God he won't give me a hand
And the devil sits and waits knowing that I'll come around
And for sure I'm easy prey
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Lyrics submitted by Jeremy Hodge.