Tall Eyes

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jim Lauderdale

One of the new songs on Jim Lauderdale's album, "Patchwork River", with lyrics by Robert Hunter.

Tall eyes, smoking grey shadows
Fall dies, shot the lock off the sky
A thousand goodbyes, can't put it back
That don't mean you can't try
'Cause walking beneath the shade of a cloud
Crying out loud, somebody help me
Figuring out what do you lose
When you give your heart away

Fall guy, it's somebody else
Not I, who was miles away
When it went down, whatever it was
You believe I did, I was readin the news
Sometime to myself, singing the blues
Watching the dryer spin round and round
Minding my p's and q's

You say I'm crazy to lie
But then, it's your opinion
Whether I do, or whether I don't
I'm still plain insane
What do you get when you cross a stream
Against the light, with a cyclone fence
I can't say for sure, what do you want?
To chase those accidents

Tall eyes, smoking grey shadows
Fall dies, shot the lock off the sky
A thousand goodbyes, can't put it back
That don't mean you can't try
At the end of the world
Feeling strangely cool
Tall eyes
Tall eyes
Tall eyes