Jordan Mertes - Townes Lyrics

You said "hey play some Townes Van Zandt" and smiled and changed the tune
To a soft sweet folk song written on the highway 'neath the moon

For if I lost my flying shoes and had no place to fall
Ii know you'll be here with me girl to love me through it all

So I sang about a love so fine and the years that passed me by
And as I finished playing I watched a tear fall from your eye

Like a summer Thursday's gentle rain upon my soul so blue
Tapping your sweet melody at my window soft and true

I sat there strumming softly on my beat up old guitar
Cracked and mangled from the years in the back seat of my car

While my two hand played the songs your velvet voice did rise
Singing sweetly from afar of Caroline's demise

So I put aside my guitar and walked across the room
And as we kissed in the dark we hummed that lonesome tune