There's a lipstick sunset

Smeared across the August sky

There's a bitter sweet perfume

Hanging in the fields

The creek is running high And I left my lover waiting

In the dawn somewhere to wonder why

By the end of the day

All her sweet dreams would fade

To a lipstick sunset And the radio was playing

And that ol' summer heat was on the rise

I just had to get away

Before some sad old song

Brought more tears to my eyes And Lord, I couldn't tell her

That her love was only killing me

Oh, by the dawn, another day

All her sweet dreams would fade

To a lipstick sunset Well, it's pretty as a picture, baby

Red and blushing just before the night

Maybe love's like that for me

Maybe I can only see

As you take away the light But hold me in a darkness

We can dream about the cool twilight

And the dawn, another day

When I make my getaway

To a lipstick sunset There will come another day

When I make my getaway

To a lipstick sunset

Ooh, there will come another day

Then I'll make my getaway

To a lipstick sunset