Picture In a Drawer - Justin Townes Earle

It’s raining in the mountains

It’s heading this way

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow

Or the next day

I’m sure I’ll get along baby

But a whole lot has changed

Yours is the first voice I’ve heard in days

Oh but mama if you don’t mind

Can we talk about something else

Mama please don’t come over

Saying nothing you can’t help

You’ll be the first to know when I start to come around

I’m not drowning I’m just seeing how long I can stay down

And mama she’s gone

And just a picture in a drawer

The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more

Mama she’s gone

Well you know there’s nothing tying me to this town now that she’s gone

Don’t know why I ever come back

Guess I just tagged along

Can’t believe that once I called this place my home

Cause I’m walking the streets and all I see is ghosts

Mama she’s gone

And just a pictyre in a drawer

The kind of hurt that takes a rainy day and hurts that much more

Mama she’s gone

Lonely, lonely and wondering how I am

And I know the love I see is over long before it began

And now the rain’s getting closer

Midnight’s coming on

The wind seems to whisper

You fool you know she’s gone

I still leave the gate unlatched just in case she staggers home

Mama said she was no good

And now she’s gone