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 anything you had the grace to show

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

Looking over the hill at the lights of your hometown

I wrote this song for you

Thinking of the way we met, a girl that was home from school

And a boy just passing through

I got a job as a cut man at the 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