Been better off where I was
It had been less trouble of course
Would you shine so bright the night that I met you
If I knew then what I know now
What my mama been talking about
How you would surely be the death of me
Now
I'm swinging from a cottonwood tree And I know what's happened to me,
I know
Just where things went wrong
Blood is the price you pay
Wouldn't have had it any other way, oh no
Old night I love
Crime
or passion so they say For a man I put in his grave
When I found you loving him more than you love me
I'm blind to what you were And being so damn pretty it hurts
But I wouldn't trade tomorrow for yesterday
Though I'm swinging from a cottonwood tree
And I know what's happened to me,
I know Just where things went wrong
Blood
is the price you pay Wouldn't have had it any other way,
oh no
Old night I love
Baby it was happenstance,
playing part in sweet romance Never learning how to let go
So mama I'll just say alright,
learn to run instead of fight Just know I'm never coming home
Baby it was happenstance,
playing part in sweet romance Never learning how to let go
So mama I'll just say alright,
learn to run instead of fight Just know I'm never coming home