Lasting Words

I met a girl from Brownsville
She kamikaze head-turn got me into a frill
I told her about my friends back home
What they’d say-
How she spoke
Lasting Words in the lasting night
And every time I see a boat by a lake
I want to jump up and say
Let’s row away from everything
Said she was a cutter
And I said my dad’s a preacher man
I took her to the boat out down by the lake
I kindly took her by the hand
Just to make her understand
I took her to the boat out down by the lake
And just when everything was said
I hugged her hard around her head
I told her there are things that we shouldn’t say
Now watch me say them
I tore her down today
Everything just goes away
But the scars you hide today
And you don’t want to say