All I Left Behind

© Almo Music Corp/ Poodlebone Music/
 Garden Court Music (ASCAP)
 All I left behind should come as no surprise
 To me since I fell through the black hole of your eyes
 Only little things inconsequential I could say
 Of all I left behind with you along the lost highway
 Silver earrings in Wichita
 Beaded moccasions in Tonopah
 But I had you so
 I just let them go
 The flannel shirt I wore to keep me from the cold
 When we drove from Boston all the way to Buffalo
 The leather boots I bought so many miles ago
 I took them off to follow you into the Ohio
 Never did my armor feel so thin
 Silk was all I had between me and your skin
 Like Waterloo
 I lost that too
 And the golden bracelet with my father's name inscribed
 On the back by the one who loved him all her life
 The way I too
 Could have loved you
 The Spanish shawl I put across the broken shade
 Of the lamp that lit the room
 That last night near Coeur d'Alene
 Only little things inconsequential I could say
 Of all I left behind with you along the lost highway
 Of all I left behind