Blue Ink-Laura Veirs

[00:03.34]Blue Ink [00:05.34]Laura Veirs [00:10.01] [00:24.05]I'm falling off the barstool mama [00:29.65]in this old ghost town saloon [00:35.31]Where sunlight moves like sadness [00:38.14]across the room [00:46.29]Oh my sweet mama [00:51.57]if you could only see me [00:56.95]Now drunk as a skunk falling [01:00.73]out of this rundown lacy gown [01:03.57] [01:08.06]This blue ink [01:13.38]this blue ink [01:18.65]this blue ink [01:21.12]Across the page I write to you [01:27.21] [01:38.55]I'm sitting in these thorny cowboy boots [01:42.82]And scabby knees [01:49.04] wondering why I left you mama [01:52.63]Just to do as I please [01:59.70]no hat has a brim [02:01.72]Wide enough to block out the blazing sun [02:10.14]I met the devil on the road but [02:12.33]I had no legs to run [02:16.22] [02:21.05]This blue ink [02:26.47]this blue ink [02:31.72]this blue ink [02:33.39]Across the page I write to you [02:39.88] [03:00.98]Silver ran off two towns ago [03:04.99]I been walking alone [03:07.68]I been walking slow my eyes are dry [03:12.39] from the desert wind [03:13.00]I know I ain't coming home to you again [03:21.13] [03:57.87]I'll take off into the deep blue sky [04:06.34]When I'm dead and gone and the buzzards fly [04:15.21]this blue ink across the page [04:18.51]I write to you mama if you love me [04:25.71]you're the only one who do [04:29.18]