Substance - Alabama's Song lyrics

[Verse 1: Spoken] She's got a candle lit by her window With a double-barrel shotgun next to her rocking chair She's been waiting And this old lady, she's been waiting 12 years now For nothing else she cares A beat-up Winnebago in the American desert A dirt road leads to an abandoned oil farm and tumbleweed is the most movement that it sees Her car stays parked in the lot still filled with gasoline Who knows? Maybe one day she'll need it Should James ever turn up and she decides to act upon her basic instincts, she will need it That getaway car and those dead roses on his shelf are the only things that she holds dear anymore James made a promise that he can't keep anymore But he'll try to Oh, he'll try to [Chorus] Well he's in too deep She's been waiting for him She's got something for him Well he's under her skin Oh, he don't know it but he's Coming home to something [Verse 2: Spoken] The tires on his pickup pick up dirt on his way in And she can see him from a mile away James has come to confess his sins and gather the love that he once leaned on She's as patient and determined to commit her first Silence She hears his foot steps as he makes his way to the front door She shoulders her weapon "Sweetheart?" Silence James steps into the Winnebago, "Sweetheart, I'm home" She feels a rush so strong, she could come from the feeling that those eyes and his voice Memories of love and laughter, sheets that hold him in the night, never letting in that morning after She remembers Bang She remembered [Chorus] Well he's in too deep She's been waiting for him She's got something for him Well he's under her skin Oh, he don't know it but he's Coming home to something [Verse 3: Spoken] Off she goes, full tank and a bag of clothes Nothing but fire behind her She speeds out that dirt road She's finally free Mr. Roadhouse is finally free