"Sad Blue Eyes" lyrics

He grew up in a house in the valley
With a daddy who was one long cigarette
And his momma walked out on a Friday night
With a man that she'd just met

He liked walking the blacktop streets in the rain
In the dark when the city was dead
The machine gone asleep he could hear himself think
And he liked what he saw in his head

Her sad blue eyes
Her sad blue eyes

He found work at the yard picking apart cars
Out on Springfield and Lariat
He likes a girl with scars on her arms
'Cause it proves she ain't seen what she wants to yet
With her sad blue eyes

Don't you see it boy
Everything's a circle in this town
And the best you give can't fix
What cannot be found
Behind her sad blue eyes
Behind her sad blue eyes
Behind her sad blue eyes

He put his head to the stone working all day long
Saving up those dollars and dimes
He's got his eye on a ring at the Oakwood Mall
And he likes how the diamond shines
There's a quarter-acre lot with a trailer on the spot
If he can work a deal out on time
And they park across the street where they dream and they drink
And he says I'm gonna make you mine
And your sad blue eyes

Don't you see it boy
Everything's a circle in this town
And the best you give can't fix
What cannot be found
Behind her sad blue eyes
Behind her sad blue eyes
Behind her sad blue eyes

When they're naked at night she whispers to him
I know you can make it alright
But the damage moves in like a ghost from within
And a storm grows behind
Her sad blue eyes

When they're naked night she whispers to him
I know you can make it alright
But the damage moves in like a ghost from within
And a storm grows behind
Her sad blue eyes