Poem

Holly With the Red Hair (Lyric)

Holly with the red hair
and the scarlet smile;
we've all heard the birds sing
and seen the sunrise fall from your mouth.
Everybody comes and goes
on and on and on
and I never saw you cry.

You've sold a million glasses of conversation
sometimes seeing love
across this crowded bar.
Some people drown here in their own words
years after years
while others bring their dreams
and go on and on.

There must be a hundred times
and a thousand nights
you've been in love,
no one feels it like you do;
you love like only songs can promise
and when others dream
you let them go
on and on.

I'm somewhere between Texas and Jesus
on a road from everywhere to where I'm going.
You must be in camel lights
six million miles away.

I'm a song searching for a radio
down southern roads,
I feel your sunshine fingers
and sometimes
this don't hurt
anymore
as I go on and on.

I sit outside this bar;
it's 3am and change.
All the neon has packed itself
and burned away.
There's a message waiting on your phone
that I'm waiting for the sun,
I'm back in this town tonight
I'm leaving but I won't be gone.

Chorus;Are you still here
with the same sad faces
when the smiling ones
have gotten past this place?
...
you weren't left behind,
you're out in front of me,
on long highways,
short white lines.
You weren't left behind,
I'm just getting back to you.