Almost Blue

We stood there in the courthouse room so close but far apart
You brought along the lawyer and i brought a broken heart
The judge pronounced the words the way you wanted him to do
You changed your name from brown to jones and mine from brown to blue

I couldn't help my tears from falling on the courtroom floor
My love, they took away my right to love you anymore
My world just seemed to stop as i stood there so close to you
You changed your name from brown to jones and mine from brown to blue

The judge forgot to tell me how i'd live my life alone
What i would do without you after loving you so long
He didn't seem to care that i'm still in love with you
You changed your name from brown to jones and mine from brown to blue

I couldn't help my tears from falling on the courtroom floor
My love, they took away my right to love you anymore
My world just seemed to stop as i stood there so close to you
You changed your name from brown to jones and mine from brown to blue

Why don't you love me like you used to do?
How come you treat me like a worn out shoe?
My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don't you love me like you used to do?

Ain't had no lovin' like a-huggin' and a-kissin' in a long, long while
We don't get nearer, further, closer than a country mile

Why don't you be the sort you used to be?
How come you find so many faults with me?
I'm the same old trouble that you've always been through
Why don't you love me like you used to do?

Ain't had no lovin' like a-huggin' and a-kissin' in a long, long while
We don't get nearer, further, closer than a country mile

Why don't you spark me like you used to do?
Say sweet nothings like you used to coo
Somebody's changed, so let me give you a clue
Why don't you love me like you used to do?

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down
They say you only live to see the lights of town
I wasted my time when i would try, try, try
'cause when the lights have lost their glow, you'll cry, cry, cry

Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone
And you'll wake up some cold day and find you're alone
You'll come to me but i'm gonna tell you bye, bye, bye
When i turn around and walk away, you'll cry, cry, cry

You're gonna cry, cry, cry and you'll cry alone
When everyone's forgotten and you're on your own
You're gonna cry, cry, cry

I lie awake at night and wait till you come in
You stay a little while and then you're gone again
Every question that i ask, i get a lie, lie, lie
For every lie you tell, you're gonna cry, cry, cry

When your fickle little love gets old, no one will care for you
You'll come back to me for a little love that's true
I'll tell you no and you're gonna ask me why, why, why
When i remind you of all of this, you'll cry, cry, cry

You're gonna cry, cry, cry and you'll want me there
It'll hurt when you think of the fool you've been
You're gonna cry, cry, cry

We used to go out walkin' hand in hand
You told me all the big things you had planned
It wasn't long till all your dreams came true
Success put me in second place with you

You have no time to love me anymore
Since fame & fortune knocked upon our door
I spend all my evenings all alone
Success has made a failure of our home

If we could spend an evening now & then
Perhaps we'd find true happiness again
You never hold me like you used to do
It's funny what success has done for you

You have no time to love me anymore
Since fame & fortune knocked upon our door
I spend all my evenings all alone
Success has made a failure of our home

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak
'cause your sugar-daddy don't want no talkin' back
You keep on babblin', talkin' 'bout this and that
I got news for ya baby, you ain't nothin' but an alley cat

Turn off the waterworks baby, they don't move me no more
I'm leavin' this town, ain't comin' back no more
Honey hush

Come into this house and stop that yakity yak
You're makin' me nervous and i'm holdin' a baseball bat

Hi-ho, hi-ho silver
Hi-ho, hi-ho silver away

Sweet dreams of you, every night i go through
I should hate you girl the whole night through
Instead i'm having sweet dreams all about you

You don't love me it's plain
I should have known you'd never share my name
Why can't i forget you girl, start loving someone new?
Instead i'm having sweet dreams all about you

Why can't i forget my past, start loving someone new?
Instead i'm having sweet dreams all about you

Sweet dreams of you, every night i go through
I should hate you girl the whole night through
Instead i'm having sweet dreams all about you

Tonight the bottle let me down
It let your memory come around
The one true friend i thought i'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

I've always had a bottle i could turn to
And lately i've been turnin' every day
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And i'm hurtin' in old familiar ways

Tonight the bottle let me down
It let your memory come around
The one true friend i thought i'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

Each night i leave the bar room when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closing time
But tonight your memory found me much too sober
I can't drink enough to keep you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let me down
It let your memory come around
The one true friend i thought i'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

Here i am late again for the last time
And like i promised, i just told her goodbye
Please believe me 'cause this time, it's really over
And darling, you know i wouldn't lie

Didn't i come and tell you about her
How temptation lured she and i
Now i know it was only fascination
And darling, you know i wouldn't lie

I had to let her down easy as slow as i could
After all, she's got feelings too
But it took a little longer than i thought it would
But this time, she knows we're really through

She wanted to hold me forever
And this lipstick shows her final try
And these tears on my shoulder are proof that she failed
And darling, you know i wouldn't lie

I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lyin' cold the way you left 'em, but at least your lips caressed them while
You packed
Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink
But at least you thought you wanted it, that's so much more than i can say
For me

What a good year for the roses
Many blooms still linger there
The lawn could stand another mowin'
Funny i don't even care
As you turn to walk away
As the door behind you closes
The only thing i have to say
It's been a good year for the roses

After three full years of marriage, it's the first time that you haven't
Made the bed
I guess the reason we're not talkin', there's so little left to say we
Haven't said
While a million thoughts go racin' through my mind, i find i haven't said a word
>from the bedroom the familiar sound of a baby's cryin' goes unheard

What a good year for the roses
Many blooms still linger there
The lawn could stand another mowin'
Funny i don't even care
As you turn to walk away
As the door behind you closes
The only thing i have to say
It's been a good year for the roses

I might say that i don't care
Hold my head up in the air
Even tell my friends i'm glad that you don't call
But when the day is through
That's when my heartaches start anew
And that's when i miss you most of all

And my arms keep reaching for you
And my eyes keep searching for you
And my lips keep calling for you
And my shoes keep walking back to you

No matter how much i pretend
I wish i had you back again
'cause nothin' means half as much as you
My world just seemed to die
The day you said goodbye
And i can't forget no matter what i do

And my arms keep reaching for you
And my eyes keep searching for you
And my lips keep calling for you
And my shoes keep walking back to you