A Song While You're Away

Up in your nephew's room
Playing on his cousin's guitar
I wrote
A song for you

You have done drove off
With everything I need
My box
And my tumbleweed

I picked it up
On the way
To Flagstaff years ago
I was hanging on
To everything
You had the grace to show

You were young
And you were hungry
Lord knows
I was hungry too
We were both
Flat-out starving
For something
Worthwhile to lose
You were my bread
And I was your honey
Up against
The dark red wine
Trying to hold on
To the lovely
Through the bitter
Of our times

Looking over the hill
At the lights of your hometown
I wrote
This song for you

Thinking of the way we met
A girl home from school
And a boy
Just passing through

I got a job
As a cut man
At a house
Just down the road

I had never been
To town before
And I didn't
Know a soul

I was young
And I was hungry
Lord knows
You were hungry too
We were both
Flat-out starving
For something
Worthwhile to lose
You were my bread
And I was your honey
Up against
The dark red wine
Trying to hold on
To the lovely
Through the bitter
Of our times

Agate white
Wedding dress
Turquoise on your ring
Upright bass and violin
As you walk the aisle to me

I was young
And I was hungry
Lord knows
You were hungry too
We were both
Flat-out starving
For something
Worthwhile to lose
You were my bread
And I was your honey
Up against
The dark red wine
Trying to hold on
To the lovely
Through the bitter
Of our times