A Song While You're Away

Up in your nephew's room playing on his cousin's guitar

I wrote a song for you

You have done drove off with everything I need

My box and my tumbleweed

I picked it up on the way to Flagstaff years ago

I was hanging on to everything you had the grace to show

You were young and you were hungry

Lord knows I was hungry too

We were both flat-out starving

For something worthwhile to lose

You were my bread and I was your honey

Up against the dark red wine

Trying to hold on to the lovely

Through the bitter of our times

Looking over the hill at the lights of your hometown

I wrote this song for you

Thinking of the way we met

A girl home from school and a boy just passing through

I got a job as a cut man at a house just down the road

I had never been to town before, and I didn't know a soul

I was young and I was hungry

Lord knows you were hungry too

We were both flat-out starving

For something worthwhile to lose

You were my bread and I was your honey

Up against the dark red wine

Trying to hold on to the lovely

Through the bitter of our times

Agate white wedding dress

Turquoise on your ring

Upright bass and violin

As you walk the aisle to me

I was young and I was hungry

Lord knows you were hungry too

We were both flat-out starving

For something worthwhile to lose

You were my bread and I was your honey

Up against the dark red wine

Trying to hold on to the lovely

Through the bitter of our times