Eve's Daughter - Amanda Shires

I was young

Spring had sprung

I wanted out of Alamogordo

Kept the party dress

In the glove compartment

Of my green-and-white Ford Bronco

A gust of wind

Came blastin' in

The gas station where I was workin'

He was twenty-three

He was on leave

And the rest gets a little blurry

Maybe it was circumstance

But I saw my chance and I took it

Through the sunset, shiftin' gears

To the somethin'-better shinin' diamond-clear

Shinin' diamond-clear

We didn’t have much in common

But I had fallen

I was thirsty and he looked like water

When I started to show

He proposed

For a while we were in tall cotton

He started comin' home high

And then came the fights

And I did what I had to do

Through a sunset, shiftin' gears

To the somethin'-better shinin' diamond-clear

Lookin' for happy ever after

Forever and ever and ever and ever again

Started over

In Kansas City

Stayed too long at your Aunt Debbie’s

A lotta workin' late

A little Section Eight

And the burden gets a little less heavy

Sometimes it was treadin' water

Guess it is sometimes for all Eve’s daughters

Lookin' for happy ever after

Forever and ever and ever and ever again

Love showed up and I let him in

And if I had to do it all again

I’d hit the sunset, shiftin' gears

To the somethin'-better shinin' diamond-clear

I’d find my happy ever after Forever

And ever and ever and ever again