《Ruby & Carlos》歌词

歌曲： Ruby & Carlos

所属专辑：Just Us Kids

歌手： James McMurtry

时长： 06:35

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chain smoking camel straights[00:00:46]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While the singer flew[00:04:12]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holding back the flood[00:05:49]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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