Lyrics

Texas Is For Lovers


My brother Johnny, daddy to Gail and Ronny
He was a good man, but he could blow like a fireworks stand.

One night in Austin, his temper had finally cost him
He beat a man half dead, and then another man for stepping in.

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We don't play well, with others
But Texas is for lovers.

Ever since she was knee high
Emily had stars in her eyes
But on a canvas of cotton
These West Texas dreams were forgotten.

She went and married an older man
Johnny did as good as Johnny can.
He tried walking a straight line
Between his two kids and his years inside.

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We don't play well, with others
But Texas is for lovers.

And somewhere, in a prairie air, two kids cry out and Johnny isn't there.

One things about Johnny, he couldn't do anything half way,
On the night that he checked out, he hung himself in his cowboy.

I went looking for Emily, the kids were sleeping beside the TV,
She left him a long note, said I love you but I gotta go.


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We don't play well, with others
But Texas is for lovers.


And somewhere, in the prairie air, two kids grow up and Johnny's brother's there.

I hear him on the burnt plains, I hear him in the hill country rain.
I'm driving east with the top down, pine curtain come down. the high