Chelsea Rain

this is my loose version of Johnny Cash's 'Cocaine Blues' and Ryan Adams' 'Carolina Rain.'

God descended through clouds of blue and gray
marking the evening we let it all slip away
behind the drug store where they found him asleep
he couldn't keep his mouth shut and she began to weep

we almost had 'em, baby doll
I hid the evidence beneath a busted floor board down the hall
as you told your lawyer that we were back in Carolina until fall
flashing lights and sirens marked the scene where it all went wrong

Carmen never knew what was going on
and Marcus caught on when he heard that song you played until dawn
everything stacked up against us like votes in a rigged election
you were used to getting your way, baby doll
and me, I was used to nothing but perfection

Judge Taylor stood on high in that phony polished courtroom
with a gavel he pounded on that table of doom
life imprisonment for me and the chair for you, baby doll
are you ready for the end, baby doll
God, how I would die to be you, baby doll
I'd do anything to take your pain away, baby doll
even if it meant me slicing his neck, baby doll
after all, it was me who stole you away from him, baby doll

the years have rolled by and haven't treated me so well
for the past few decades I've convinced myself that this is hell
there's strange weather that always surrounds me when I go outside
I knew I shouldn't have lied, baby doll
after all, it was me who tore his neck in two with your daddy's boy scout's pocket knife
I lied, baby doll, I lied 'cause I ain't no man, baby doll
I lied 'cause you were his wife and he loved you, baby doll
and true love doesn't just disappear with death, baby doll
true love lives on, baby doll
true love lives on