The Only Reason

Four-thirty a.m., July 28,

In the middle of a storm, never touching the brake,

I drove like a bat outta hell,

Down that lonely ol' four-lane.

With the bright lights of Houston just fadin' behind,

My tires tearin' up the road t'ward the state-line.

I was leavin' the great Lone Star state,

That I loved, for good.

For the love of a good woman who lives in Louisiana,

On a bayou by the river with the moon in her hair.

And when I get there, I'm gonna get down on one knee,

'Cause wherever she is, boy, that's home for me.

Don't get me wrong:

Love's the only reason I'd ever leave Texas;

She's the only reason I'd ever stay gone.

Just about Baton Rouge, I was changin' my mind,

Thinkin' 'bout all the things I'd be leavin' behind.

Like a Red River sunrise,

And the stars on a Galveston night.

For the love of a good woman who lives in Louisiana,

On a bayou by the river with the moon in her hair.

And when I get there, I'm gonna get down on one knee,

'Cause wherever she is, boy, that's home for me.

Don't get me wrong:

Love's the only reason I'd ever leave Texas;

An' she's the only reason I'd ever stay gone.

Like a long lonely night,

Wonderin' where I'd spend the rest of my life.

Gone, like an old tumbleweed,

Rollin' his way a place he can't find to call home.

For the love of a good woman who lives in Louisiana,

On a bayou by the river with the moon in her hair.

And when I get there, I'm gonna get down on one knee,

'Cause wherever she is, boy, that's home for me.

Don't get me wrong:

Love's the only reason I'd ever leave Texas;

An' she's the only reason I'd ever stay gone.

Love's the only reason I'd ever leave Texas;

An' you're the only reason I'd ever stay gone.