The Ballad Of Prairie Rose Lyrics

Slow pacing down the hall

From wall to wall

Out of the light

Now I don't think that Prairie Rose is coming home tonight

He cried out to Martha

Go grab me a beer

I'm gonna drive all night until Prairie Rose is here

On the heels of hejira

She looked in the mirror

With a bittersweet sense of displace

And an apple being eaten

Like the garden of Eden

Damnation looks better in lace

And babe if you don't think that's true

Take a look at me on channel two

Because just like nostalgia

I'm already gone

Divorced from the pleasures of pain

That kept me hanging around so long

And just like an album

I shall be released

So keep me close

Like truth to a hoax

Write a song

And name it after me

Fast racing like a heart

Little red corvette

Is the only thing heard

And the sweet sound of Prairie Rose

Singing every word

In a gas station bathroom

Somewhere near Estaire

There's a love letter on the wall

That says Prairie Rose was there

Now she sleeps in her perfume

In highway hotel rooms

To find out what America means

Face down in a mattress

She'd make love like an actress

Because that's the American Dream

And if God isn't close to me now

I'll still meet you someday somehow

With a bouquet of flowers

From the side of the road

A gentle reminder that night after night

Someone's baby won't be home

Disturbed in the worst way

Oh I'm your number one fan

Under your thumb

Like blood in the gums of better men

Who never stood a chance

I'll do what you say but never what you've done

Because I've made that mistake too many times

Calling out your name until I break through

You'll say I know it was wrong but I wrote you a song

It's called Prairie Rose, I named it after you

And it's somewhat funny

How you're so absurd

And I'm searching the country

For the things that I deserve

And the pursuit of happiness

Is the fuel that I burn

Twisted for the better

I'll love you forever

XOXO sighed Prairie Rose

Heaven surrounds the unholy ground that's America

And so does Prairie Rose