Patterson Hood - (Untold Pretties) Lyrics
It started raining just as I dropped her off at her carThe sun was on the cusp of rising and it was still cool from the late winterBut the days were now warming in the spring timeShe walked half way to the car then turned around looked at me and smiledThen ran back to my window as I rolled it downFor her to stick her head in and kiss me one more timeThen ran back in the rain to her car ,get in,and drive offI sat there for a time and the rain started to drizzle into my opened windowSitting at the parking lot in the southern touch ,thinkingAs far as I'm concerned it was the last time I ever saw herOn the drive out to the funeral to bury my gran'daddy at the candle snowGrowing up in North Alabama is seldom snowSometimes a couple of year would go bySometimes it might snow twice in a seasonBut it was still a noveltyThe sky was as gray as an open chord and as plain as the fog in black and whiteMy gran'daddy always liked snow and somehow I did tooThe drive was out the old savannah highway which was still two lane thenWe wind around dead man's curveWhere that lady from the sundine bread wrapper was killed in the head onBack when I was littleOut past our family's farm to the little methodist churchWhere once upon a time my grandmother had gone to sunday schoolThe same humble structure that witnessed their marriage for 42 yearsAnd just a few years ago I'd gone to Youth groupAnd met that this new foundation camp outs,hail rides and lock insMaybe I thought about that sad snowy morning in burying my gran'daddyThus few years later, as I drove home in the rainHome to my fiancee's bed just a few weeks sky of getting marriedWith the taste of an old high school sweet heart lingering on my lips and fingersAnd the rain started pouring downOut of the sky like a wonderful wrath from GodThe God who might smite me even if I turned from his grasp,shine and embraceI was plooting an escape that I was still a few years away from having the guts to pull offYears later that realization became a personal hell that followed my around for a whileAnd then did to many moreYou can only carry hell around so long before it gets to be a drag
