LA and Tennessee

JK Coltrain - L.A. AND TENNESSEE
By: Jeff Taylor

I can still see her waving from the front porch
But this time she didn’t say to hurry home
The tears she’s cried are putting out that old torch
She’s carried in her heart for oh so long
But work takes me away from her
And she needs the kind of man that I can’t be
And I dial the phone tonight but no one answers
And I know that she’s not waiting there for me

So tonight somewhere between L.A. and Tennessee
There’s a lady out there learning to let go
And the roads that run between L.A. and Tennessee
Are the only things that I have left to show
There’s a lonesome stretch of highway, waiting there for me
And nothing is all that I can see
I’m lost somewhere between L.A. and Tennessee

Lord knows she held on for a long time
She did the best that anyone could do
As I look back on the photographs in my mind
I can see the Hell I must have put her through
The candle in the window
Has burned away and faded with the wind
And across a thousand miles of highway, I know
That I can turn around and light the fire again

So tonight somewhere between L.A. and Tennessee
There’s a lonesome man that’s lost the urge to roam
And the roads that run between L.A. and Tennessee
Are the same roads that’ll take this old boy home
There’s a homebound stretch of highway waiting there for me
And her eyes are all that I can see
I found myself between L.A. and Tennessee
I found myself between L.A. And Tennessee

Copyright 2006 Jeff Taylor