Abilene - Dave Alvin

作词：Dave Alvin

作曲：Dave Alvin

There's a greyhound bus

Leavin' the great northwest

Takin' her tonight

Back down south to Texas

She's been dancing on tables

To pay rent and be able

To just get by and maybe stay clean

Abilene Abilene

Abilene Abilene

Well her Daddy'd get drunk

Then he'd hit her hard

And her Mama'd lie in bed

High on pills and talking to God

But like her beautiful tattoos

These old memories she can't lose

Since she ran away at fifteen

Abilene Abilene

There's a town ahead that you've never seen

Maybe it's better if you

Get off there and try to

Forget everything

Abilene

Starin' out the window

At the long cold night

Ahead on the horizon

Is another string of bright lights

She's dreaming of a man she's goin' to meet

In a bar on an Austin street

Maybe this one won't be so mean

Abilene Abilene

There's a town ahead that you've never seen

Maybe it's better if you

Get off there and try to

Forget everything

Abilene

In a Texas bar there's a man sittin' alone

Thinkin' of a girl he swore

He'd wait there for

But he's drinking beers and

He's feelin' old

Rememberin' every lie he's told

Till he changes his mind and he leaves

Abilene Abilene

There's a town ahead that you've never seen

Maybe it's better if you

Get off there and try to

Forget everything

Abilene Abilene

Oh Abilene Abilene