Blue Ink - Laura Veirs

I’m falling off the barstool mama, in this old ghost town saloon

Where sunlight moves like sadness across the room

Oh my, sweet mama, if you could only see me now

Drunk as a skunk falling out of this rundown lacy gown

This blue ink

This blue ink

This blue ink across the page

I write to you

I’m sitting in these thorny cowboy boots and scabby knees

Wondering why I left you mama, just to do as I please

No hat has a brim wide enough to block out the blazing sun

I met the devil on the road but I had no legs to run

This blue ink

This blue ink

This blue ink across the page

I write to you

Silver ran off two towns ago

I been walking alone, I been walking slow

My eyes are dry from the desert wind

I know I ain’t coming home to you again

I’ll take off into the deep blue sky

When I’m dead and gone and the buzzards fly

This blue ink across the page I write to you

Mama, if you love me, you’re the only one who do