Cigarettes and Wine

I saw her in Roosevelt Springs

Where time doesn't touch anything

She never did say she could sing

But I figured it so

I needed some company then

Not sisters or children or men

That's a hell of a spot to be in

But she put me in tow

Money and liquor and lust

Taken my heart and my trust

I could see ashes and dust

Headed my way

She tended bar in the town

Her alto settled me down

So I started hanging around

Didn't need much to say

She smelled like cigarettes and wine

She kept me happy all the time

I know that ain't much of a line

But it's the God's own truth

She lives down inside of me still

Rolled up like a twenty dollar bill

She left me alone with these pills

In the last of my youth

Wings on her shoulders and feet

A bar on Gethsemane Street

I took time to plan my retreat

And backed out the door

Must be attracted to those

Who've witnessed a man in the throes

Life that ain't grindstone to nose

Pedal to floor

She smelled like cigarettes and wine

She kept me happy all the time

I know that ain't much of a line

But it's the God's own truth

She lives down inside of me still

Rolled up like a twenty dollar bill

She left me alone with these pills

In the last of my youth

Lost on the dry side of town

My memories slowing me down

She shook me and I came around

Came back to life

Nary a mother or dad

She showed me what I never had

Princess of leaves, she got sad

'Cause I won't take a wife

She smelled like cigarettes and wine

She kept me happy all the time

I know that ain't much of a line

But it's the God's own truth

She lives down inside of me still

Rolled up like a twenty dollar bill

She left me alone with these pills

In my smoldering youth

She left me alone with these pills

In the last of my youth