Shining Eyes - James McMurtry

When a telephone rings in an empty room

Does it make a sound

When I get back from the east coast

Will you still be around

Well that’s hard to say

Doesn’t look that way

Pigeons on the sidewalk

Can’t stay out of my way

Night clerk at the hotel

Won’t give me the time of day

I can understand

He’s a busy man

Coming off a bad day

I want to turn and run away

Quick as I can

And I see your shining eyes

In the middle of the night

Between the highway lines

And the runway lights

Silence on the line

Something’s not right

Must have drifted too far

From the sight of your shining eyes

I shouldn’t sit here longing

For the time we never spent

With the pockets of my suitcase

Full of cards I never sent

I can’t fix the past

And the world’s spinning much too fast

Slowly falling into line

Sometimes I think I know my mind

But that don’t last

It might have made no difference

Had I never left at all

But I’m standing at the pay phone

And they’re sweeping out the hall

And I guess you’ll never answer

But there’s not much I could say

You might not want to hear my name

I miss your company just the same

Everyday