If I left tomorrow, you'd remember today As something that happened to you yesterday When love wasn't new but it still hadn't faded If I left tomorrow, you'd remember today When my Granddaddy drank whiskey he was sinking or flying Papa spins an old record that reminds him of dying When my Ma' got the fever, she'd take two sleeping pills She said "You got to feed a heartache, starve everything else" Your lips sure shook the first time you said it
The wind comes to steal me Mama, don't think I'll forget Nothing was wasted here, nothing was sold We just traded freedom for something harder to hold A tornado took the house, but left behind a decade Someone comes to smooth out the lines put in your face If I left tomorrow, you'd remember today As something that happened to you yesterday When love wasn't new but it still hadn't faded If I left tomorrow, you'd remember today