TEXAS SHADE OF SKY

Took the long way between the trees

The heat and the humidity

Pollen-dusted furniture

And blood-dusted knees

The heat and the humidity

Landscape of my dreams

Hurricanes and schoolbook reams

Heart so full it felt like It could rip at the seams

Just below a Texas shade of sky

Took the long way east of the dome

Hills in a shadow of green

Conté colored fingerprints

And letters from home

Hills in a shadow of green

Lakes and late-night shows

Funnel clouds and bruised egos

Couldn’t match our differences

And that’s how it goes

Just below a Texas shade of sky

Love and life and loss

Cling to us like hanging moss

Keeping up as we cross the county lines

Left my common sense

Torn across a wire fence

The beauty’s yours, the contradictions mine

Took the long way over the plains

Windswept and bleached in the sun

Marriage license, mortgage

And another eight lanes

Windswept and bleached in the sun

All those aging fears

Lightning storms and used-up years

Can I really miss them

While I’m still standing here?

Held beneath a Texas shade of sky

Just below a Texas shade of sky