Expecting Rain

Her folks, they said our lives together sure was gonna be rough

Her father would emphasize you gotta be more than street-wise, but he practiced what he preached from the heart. . .

A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted it to me, the time and the place that we'd part

Sacrifice was the code of the road

But without you it just doesn’t seem right

I’m just sitting here beating on my trumpet
With all these promises you left for me....

As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die

I don't mind dyin' but I hate to leave my children cryin'

Everybody got to wonder what's the matter with this cruel world today

You knew me when I was hungry, and it was your world

bumpety-bump

A cat’s meow and a cow’s moo

Give me some milk or else go home!

Well I can't go home thisaway.

waiting for you...

Me with my belt wrapped around my head

standing in the doorway looking like the Jack of Hearts.

What's a Jack of Hearts like you doin' in a dump like this?

Oh, sister, when I come to lie
in your arms
You should not treat me like a stranger.

That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver


lol

One of the boss’ hangers-on
Comes to call at times you least expect
Try to bully ya—strong-arm you—inspire you with fear
It has the opposite effect

Lights flicker from the opposite loft.

Whatever colors you have in your mind,
I'll show them to you,
And you'll see them shine

In this room the heat pipes just cough.
The country music station plays soft,
but there's nothing really nothing to turn off.

It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite

There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room,
And a pathway that leads up to the stars

You're walking in dreams, whoever you are.