I stuck with you through thick and thin
Through losses large and chances slim
Now that success is at your door
You think you don’t need me anymore

But darlin’ fame is fleeting and fortune fickle
And life without love ain’t worth a plug nickle
I was by your side in every endeavor
And my love for you will last forever (forever, forever, forever)

When it gets lonely at the top
Try to remember whom you forgot
A woman that loves you not for what you’ve got
A woman that loves you with all her heart

If you find that there’s something missing
Come back to the lips you once loved kissing
I’m still pretending that you’ve been true
I’ve been saving all my love for you

And darlin’ fame is fleeting and fortune fickle
And life without love ain’t worth a plug nickle
I was by your side in every endeavor
And my love for you will last forever (forever, forever, forever)

So when it gets lonely at the top
Try to remember whom you forgot
A woman that loves you for not what you’ve got
A woman that loves you with all her heart (forever, forever, forever)

So here I am at Harry’s bar
With a bottle of booze and my heart in a jar
A man needs a place to kind of unwind
To escape from the world and a woman unkind

The dance floor is rocking to Cotton Eyed Joe
I should be high but I’m feeling low
It’s true what they say about the blues
Before you can shake ‘em you gotta pay your dues

The waitress’s a fox she’s strutting her stuff
I’d make a move if I were man enough
But I’m drunk as a skunk and stuck in a rut
And that woman of mine would kick my butt

The urban cowboy is riding the mechanical bull
I’m having trouble just staying atop this stool
My head’s in a spin, my eyes are seeing double
And when I get home there’ll be plenty of trouble

That woman of mine is the unforgiving kind
There’s no peace of mind with a woman unkind
Lord, can’t life be cruel and a man a doggone fool
When he marries a woman that’s part pit bull

I’d sure like to hit the sack
Though I dread going back
But my eyes are getting heavy and my wallet’s getting light
I think I’ll head home and call it a night

It seemed just like yesterday
That we danced the nights away
When I held you tight my dear
Everything felt so right and clear

Now my life’s a sad sad song
I don’t know where we went wrong
It’s strange how life’s sweet refrain
Can quickly change to bitter pain

I’d been hoping that one day I’d see you and smile
And hold you in my arms just for a short while
Cause darling I’m leaving, it’s my turn to go
Tonight’s the last night a teardrop will fall

Whiskey will warm your blood
Better than her body could
And the perfume that she wore
You can buy at any store

Just remember my dear friend
It’s the beginning not the end
There are many fishes in the sea
That can fit your wishes to a tee

And when your dreams end up shattered
Time will mend a heart that’s tattered
So never chase a train departed
Just embrace your fate precharted

Someday soon maybe tomorrow
When my heart’s all filled with sorrow
Cause she left me high and dry
Recount these words when I cry

Whiskey will warm your blood
Better than her body could
And the perfume that she wore
You can buy at any store

Whenever the skies turn dark and the clouds begin to weep
I stop to think of you dear and the night we chanced to meet
Your lamp lit silhouette filled my heart with desire
Even the cold rain that poured couldn’t put out the fire

We shared an umbrella and had to huddle tight
An evening in N’Awlins had never felt so right
I watched a small rain drop trickling down your face
And wished to be transformed to somehow take its place

Your hair danced in the evening breeze with every step we took
I shoud have put my arm around you but only dared to look
I haven’t seen you since that night and probably never will
But everytime it rains dear I think of you and always will

Gentle Zephyr
Brushes birds feathers
And nudges dry leaves
Along the road.

For Shelly’s love I did once search
And found, nay not rapture, but burning lust
I sought Pope’s wisdom in the mind’s own kingdom
And found wit is but ticklish, pointless I trust.

In my travels through earths dark shadows
I alas to Byzantium came, the holy city where
Birds and flowers are nurtured by showers
And life is sprinkled by a thin aray of silent tears.

Hence, lovely Love
   Whom Aphrodite and Hephaestos bore
On feathered cloud of formless form
   ‘Midst dancing cherubs and celestial bliss
Come soothe my ravaged heart
   Where once lived Mirth and her companion Youth
Where brooding ravens now reside in dungeon dark.

Come fair Goddess and Eros too
   Force an arrow through my chest
Let sparks of passion arise from ashes
   And once again regain the throne
Thus I beseech thee gods above
   Do not let Love part first
And Death come last.

The odoriferous splash of Spring’s bounty
Energizes sensual illusions of chaotic wonderment
Which languid Summer cradles against her warm bosom
Till youthful fancy emerges in surreal bewilderment
Which stonefaced Autumn in somber ritual
Transforms to cynical disillusionment in constant strife
Then the rude hand of Winter
Snatches the fragile creation and snuffs out its life.