Laura Veirs

Blue Ink

This blue ink
This blue ink
This blue ink
Across the page I write to you
Verses
I'm sitting in these thorny cowboy boots and
Scabby knees
Wondering why I left you mama just to do as I please
No hat has a brim wide enough to block out the blazing sun
I met the devil on the road but I had no legs to run
Chorus
This blue ink
This blue ink
This blue ink
Across the page I write to you
Verses
Silver ran off two towns ago I been walking alone
I been walking slow my eyes are dry from the desert wind
I know I ain't coming home to you again
Bridge
I'll take off into the deep blue sky
When I'm dead and gone and the buzzards fly
This blue ink across the page I write to you
Mama if you love me you're the only one who do