she lightfoots it out the backdoor and heads for the nearest highway says there wasn't enough romance in my last words so shes gonna jump ship and go find another place to sink into despair she loves to be in love and needs to wear it all the time like a remnant of her yesteryear round her wrist so all the other girls can hover and be jealous i stand there looking at her saying all this and i admire her and her big hat gotta admit don't know where i'm headed either but i'm trying to make sense of the things written on the roundhouse wall cause there isn't any truth greater than the truth of innocence its got nothing to prove and it holds no grudges and the truth is that i love her so i grab her hand and together we ran away from the desperation of the ignorant and the cruelty of the small hearted the stars may fall but if you catch em in your delicate hands i can paste em in the scrapbook and we can have them forever to remember these days paste em on the walls so we can smile at them while making love and that's enough for me why aint it enough for you she smiles and makes a house out of lace doilies its gonna be our home sweet dream but the gambler and the rose faced mother-in-law fall all over themselves to stop us from leaving cause they need someone to blame too proud to admit they lost their humanity long ago they will fade into shells of shadows and get lost in a strong western breeze a voice says to me that there's no time to loose and i break open the day and stare in stark wonder at all the lives i could have lived had i not come this way or followed this road on the way to see her new clothes and her new dog with its sparkling new leash captured him to keep her company its a tragic story to be sure and it shows in his face its written in big easy to read letters on the side of our now empty home she left with her dog and a snake salesman leaving me here side of the strange road with a naked dready honey and a pocket full of apologies but they aren't worth the paper they were never written on the air they breath in my pocket is slowly leaving them no choice but to escape back to the mouth that spoke them and the uncomfortable lips that spawned them the dready honey takes me by the hand kisses away the shadows on my heart and builds a house out of tye-dye scraps and lace doilies now i sit in the warm breeze with sand 'tween my toes and relish the daylight