"Sweet Sundown" lyrics - KELLY WILLIS

How did you compete with such a tragic week
How on earth did you know what to say
And could you taste those tears on my trembling lips
When you kissed my blues away

Our time was short but the days were long
I was tired but never too tired for you
What a dragged away goodbye to your birthday girl
When you can't afford the tickets for two

And when the sundown something up against an autumn sky
Now the sundown is nothing I would ever recognize

Sitting on the docks late one evening
Who could miss such a beautiful view
Sweet sundown, I have nothing but love for you

Once the Howard lakes have frozen
And the bats go back to Mexico
The backstreets are more than poison
One each to someone you used to know

The canyons were grand but I just couldn't stand
A regret for a horrendous affair
And once that moon went down on your Texas town
It was too late to pretend you cared

And when the sundown something up against an autumn sky
Now the sundown is nothing I would ever recognize

Sitting on the docks late one evening
Who could miss such a beautiful view
Sweet sundown, I have nothing but love for you

And when the sundown something up against an autumn sky
Now the sundown is nothing I would ever recognize

Sitting on the docks late one evening
Who could miss such a beautiful view
Sweet sundown, I have nothing but love for you

Oh, sweet sundown, I have nothing but love for you