Melinda - James McMurtry

Don’t expect no favors, nothing in return

Tell all your cross-eyed neighbors that it’s none of their concern

Open the shades Melinda, let in the outside air

I’m deep in doubt and I can’t get out, and it must be dark in there

I wanna walk with you in the mornin' mist

Though I should be home by now

And there must be some way outta this

I was thinkin' you’d know how

And my judgement may be shaky

And my shoes are soakin' through

'Cause the weeds are wet and I haven’t yet made any sense of you

All the midnight angels fold their wings by dawn

The same old wild-eyed strangers sit and watch 'em till they’re gone

I let the night unravel, forget my vain pursuits

'Cept to feel that gray rock gravel on your road beneath my boots

I wanna walk with you in the changing light

When the shadows twist and play

And the ghosts that kept me out all night

We can chase em all away

And the talk of those that wonder

And the talk of those that curse

Let em have their thrill, they’ll need it

We’ll be no more for the worse

Shine your eyes upon me, whisper long and low

Mindful of the longing that we ever more may know

Up the ridge on past you, looking down below

You can see the stacks of Danville when the clouds don’t hang so low

Should you take a mind to, won’t you join me there?

Open the shades Melinda, let in the outside air