《Ruby & Carlos》歌词

[00:00:00] Ruby & Carlos - James Mcmurtry

[00:00:12] Ruby said you getting a sin of world of hurt

[00:00:17] Down below the mason dumb a** lined the food gets worse

[00:00:22] I can't go back to Tennessee

[00:00:25] That Nascar country's not for me

[00:00:29] Go on if you think you must

[00:00:35] Carlos packed his drums up in the darken night

[00:00:41] Ruby standing just outside the front porch light

[00:00:46] Chain smoking camel straights

[00:00:48] The sky off to the east got grey

[00:00:54] And he rolled off in a cloud of dust

[00:00:59] In a grey coat nicard at the gate

[00:01:02] She said you're right it's getting late

[00:01:04] You and me got work to do

[00:01:07] We can't be burning day light too

[00:01:12] She took down the long laid rope

[00:01:15] And stayed off that slippery slope

[00:01:25] Now Aspen trees were turning gold up top

[00:01:31] The talk was buzzing round the beauty shop

[00:01:36] Wasn't he barely half her age

[00:01:39] Well that's how they do nowadays

[00:01:42] We should have all been so lucky

[00:01:48] By spring she had the run of the free born men

[00:01:54] Ruby turned 50 in a sheep camp tent

[00:01:59] Her body still could rock all night

[00:02:02] But her heart was closed and locked up tight

[00:02:10] But Teddy feels all muddy and brown

[00:02:12] The gossip long such quieted down

[00:02:18] After one more Cogans test

[00:02:20] Pouring coffee for the county vet

[00:02:25] Pictures on the ice box door

[00:02:27] Carlos in the first gulf war

[00:02:30] Black eyed brown and youthful face

[00:02:32] Smiling back from a Saudi base

[00:02:38] Then Carlos on the big bay mere

[00:02:41] Heavier now and longer haired

[00:02:45] Looking past the saddle shed

[00:02:47] From way back on inside his head

[00:02:53] And the whole vet said one day Rub

[00:02:55] That cold will break an egg in you

[00:03:00] Now and then one comes along

[00:03:02] You just can't write and he went on home

[00:03:08] And the storm bird didn't catch

[00:03:11] And blew back hard as she struck a match

[00:03:13] But she cupped it just in time

[00:03:17] And she sent that ashtray flying

[00:03:24] You holding back the flood

[00:03:27] It just don't do no good

[00:03:29] You can't unclench your teeth

[00:03:32] To howl the way you should

[00:03:34] So you curl your lips around

[00:03:37] The taste of tears and the hallow sound

[00:03:39] And no one owns but you

[00:03:42] No one owns but you

[00:04:05] Carlos took the road gig

[00:04:07] And he saw it through

[00:04:10] He rode the tour bus

[00:04:12] While the singer flew

[00:04:16] Managed out a music road

[00:04:18] Carlos never saw the studio

[00:04:22] The session guys had that all sewn up

[00:04:28] He looked out the window

[00:04:30] And it starts to sleet

[00:04:34] Laying on a friends couch on Nevada street

[00:04:39] Lately he's been staying high

[00:04:41] Sick all winter and don't know why

[00:04:45] They don't know why or won't say

[00:04:47] They don't talk much down on the V.A

[00:04:54] And Ruby's in his thoughts some times

[00:04:56] What thoughts can get out past the wine

[00:05:02] He feels his fingers on his brow

[00:05:04] And right then he misses how

[00:05:06] She looked in that grey morning light

[00:05:09] She never shaved like they all do now

[00:05:12] He sees it all behind his eyes

[00:05:14] And his hands go searching but they come out dry

[00:05:21] Half way in that waken dream

[00:05:23] Carlos let's the land line ring

[00:05:33] He'd never guess it was Ruby calling

[00:05:35] A pen in her hip from the grey coat falling

[00:05:40] Figure eights and a lazy loop

[00:05:42] Stumbled on that lazy slope

[00:05:49] Holding back the flood

[00:05:51] It just don't do no good

[00:05:54] You can't unclench your teeth

[00:05:56] To howl the way you should

[00:05:59] So you curl your lips around

[00:06:01] The taste of tears and the hallow sound

[00:06:04] And no one owns but you

[00:06:07] No one owns but you