Light a Candle For Me - Billy Joe Shaver

Would you light a candle for me, babe?

Even though I have done done you wrong

If I called you up around midnight

Would you pray with me on the phone?

I recall the winters we weathered

I felt your heart beat with mine

You pulled me so deeply inside you

Our bodies so sweetly entwined

You know it hurt me to hurt you

But I felt my deal goin' down

Now I’m hung in the hooks of the highway

I’m gone and I can’t turn around

These devils out here done took me

'Cause they know that I’s a good hearted man

It’s too late to pray for my life now

But my soul can be saved by your hands

Would you light a candle for me, babe?

And don’t snuff it out 'til the dawn

When that gamey **** stops his crowin'

My soul’ll come winging back home

Like a deaf man gazin' sadly

At a blind man singin' his song

There’s a world of difference between us

But the grace of God makes us one

Would you light a candle for me, babe?