Album: Honky Tonk Union (2000)
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  • Daisies stand up on their tip-toes
    Clouds tumble over themselves in the sky
    And all the pretty horses come runnin to her
    And even the dust devils break
    But they'll catch your eye

    I haunt her house from the outside
    I watch her bake cornbread and talk on the phone
    And the wireless on the inside plays a sad sweet song
    A mute moonlit statue of mine, she waltzes alone

    But baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue
    And baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so green and dumb

    The wind ain't stopped blowin' since morning
    It's got me froze up on the inside
    And I could get warm in the bunk house
    And thaw out on coffee and bread

    But baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue
    But baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so green and dumb

    I need your government warning
    Like I need a hole in my head
    Well, I won't shoot your coyotes
    And I won't burn your weeds
    Your paycheck won't fill up this hollow
    It won't die along the ages

    But baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue
    But baby, baby, I could call you baby
    If I weren't so green & dumb

    If I weren't so green & dumb
    If I weren't so green & dumb
    If I weren't so green & dumb Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • AnonymousTony is correct
  • Tony from ArizonieThe opening lyrics are:

    Daisies stand up on their tip-toes
    Clouds tumble over themselves in the sky
    And all the pretty horses come runnin' to her
    And even the dust devils PRAY
    THAT they'll catch HER eye

    also, 4th verse:

    I need your government warning
    Like I need a hole in my head
    Well, I won't shoot your coyotes
    And I won't burn your weeds
    Your paycheck won't fill up this hollow
    It won't DULL ALL THE ACHING
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