Two Dollar Novels(Album Version) - Darden Smith

作词：Darden Smith

作曲：Darden Smith

I turned right on first

Left on white oak

Back to my old neighborhood

I saw old doc Randolph

Morning shore

He's kept it up 'bout the best he could

Evelyn his wife thirty two years

She smiled as I drove by

she waved from her front porch screen

She went back to reading her two dollar novel

Playing with her wedding ring

A few houses needed paint

A few gates were unhinged

generally

The place looked the same

The driveways were full of bikes

and buick sedans

Things any good American would claim

All them other lovers

That married for cover

They out for the sacred nightly stroll

They were wishing

they were characters in two dollar novels

Wishing for their weight in gold

Oooooh

Oooooh

Oooooh

Now Mary Elizabeth

She's my high school sweetheart

She married my best high school friend

He manages the hardware store

She became a nurse

I became a memory to them

all my other buddies

And just got lost in outer space

And they ran off

served their country well

They're all fighting in a war of

Two dollar novels

Where only

The toughest live to tell

So I turned right on white oak

Left on first

Out of that old neighborhood

I left doctor Mrs Randolph

Sipping ice tea on their sun porch

Wondering if I'd ever come to any good

And on a thousand shady streets

thousand other towns

Now people lord they're doing just the same

They're all living their lives like two dollar novels

wondering if I'd the world so insane

They're all living their lives like two dollar novels

And wondering why there's nothing left to gain