Empty blue shoes And empty brown bottles It's the VW blues Bare feet to the floor You just might die When you make colorado And the plaines lie behind you Sweet Texas behind you And your mother won't hold You forever And forever won't hold you for long And that girl with the face of An angel She's the girl with the face that's Long gone Now those empty blue shoes They sit by the highway And those VW blues They saw 'em pulling away You know she kissed me goodbye The last time I saw her But what she intended She never would say And you lover won't hold you Forever And forever won't hold you for long And that girl with the face of An angel She's the girl with the face that's Long gone