Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin

Baby came home today Told me to stay away She told me her man was afraid Told me I better behave Baby just came back around Told me she's leaving this town Said she needs time to explore She said I can't love her no more Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know... So baby packed up all she had Promised to never come back She left me alone and without Skin I can study about Tiles get colder to touch Wood splinters, metal will rust But baby she had all my trust And I guess that was never enough Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know She's mine (Whoa, oh oh. You know that she's mine, ooh) (Baby came home today) (Told me to stay away) (Told me her man was afraid) (Told me I better behave) (Oh, you know that I'm) Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know She's mine, she's mine That girl is mine, she's mine, oh

John came home from war this morning He found his wife, she wasn't there And a cold cold feeling crept through his bones When he found a note at the bottom of the stairs Said I'm in love with your brother I've found a preacher I'm in love and I'm heading to the south Boy you were fine but I've changed my mind I'm boarding the next train out of town John flew into a rage like thunder He brought his fist down and he cracked the floor He thought he broke bone the way he screamed and he roared And he headed right back out the door Said I'm going to find my brother God damn this preached And I'm going to put him underneath a stone When the oak trees are so tall the mountains feels small They'll remember the wrath of my storm John crashed in with his pistol crying In the morning just before the dawn He took out his knife and he carved out the light Of a future in the eyes of the lord Strung him up high silhouetted in the sky Let the ravens pick him to the bone When the law man came by he turned down his eyes Not to gaze upon the brother of John The station platform was empty and quiet She waited for a man who'd never show When the noon day sun was high and cracking The ground she felt a lump rise in her throat John swept from behind put a gun on her side Said baby you were why I came home I won't take your life but I want to look into your eyes When you see I killed the man that you love

Alone Anna wanders, ponders and thinks How love and sin can be dangerous things And how silver linings are what lightning brings As she stares through the window and sings You left that night, you were going to tell her How dead leaves to dust was us leaving together Yet still I'm here waiting for a sign or a letter In this house of cold wood and stone Since you never came home Oh you left that night, you were going to tell her How wrong you had been, in the fall you were better Yet still I'm here waiting for a sign or a letter In this house of cold wood and stone Since you never came home On the night that I still can't forget You said that you can't change what you don't regret You told me you loved me and I felt that you meant it And I waited here all night long But you never came home Since you never came home

I saw roses choking in the grass flaking paint In a broken window pane A mailbox barely standin' by the driveway I can almost read the name A swing set and forgotten toys Where little girls and boys played happy games Everything I ever care about is gone now But all the memories still remain The old man from the house across the street asked How's it goin' and I said fine But the expression on his face would make me think That he could almost read my mind That little Johnson boy from down the road Was asking if the kids could come and play Lord I wish I could have told them yes But I just said I guess son not today I just came home to count the memories That I've been carrying in my mind I just came home to count the memories Of a better day and time And all the birds that sang a pretty song They aren't singing like they did when we were here 'Cause there's no happiness in music When somebody isn't close enough to care I picked a raged daisy from its home Out in the corner of the yard She loves me, she loves me not Now I don't have to wonder anymore I just came home to count the memories That I've been counting in my mind I just came home to count the memories I guess it's time to say goodbye