Look at you, look at me.

My heart breaks as I read our sad story.

Never thought that I'd be,

Here with you wishing I was free.
I never dreamed today would come,

When love was young.

There was nothing I would not do,

For the chance to see your face.

How could I have known back then,

That today I'd hesitate.

When you hold me in your arms,

I don't yearn for that charm.

Far away I've traveled,

To stand once more alone.

And hear my memories echo,

Through these hills that I call home.

As a child I roamed this valley.

I watched the seasons come and go.

I spent many hours dreaming,

On these hills that I call home.

The wind is rushing through the valley,

And I don't feel so all alone,

When I see the dandelions blowing,

Sweet forgiveness, Thats what you give me,

When you hold me close, and you say,

"Thats all over"

You dont go looking back,
You dont hold the cards to stack,

You mean what you say,

Sweet forgiveness,you help me see,

I'm not near as bad, and I sometimes,

appear to be,

When you hold me close and say,

"Thats all over and I still love you"

CHORUS: And ya know the sun's setin' fast

And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts

Go on now and kiss it goodbye

But hold on to your lover 'cause your heart's bound to die

Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town

Goodnight

Up the street beside that red neon light

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town.

Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoedowns.

She says the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture 'round.

And there'd be twenty or more there on the old wooden floor dancin' to a country sound.

The Carters and Jimmy Rodgers played her favourite songs.

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.

Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.

But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.

I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Some say once you're gone you're gone forever, and some say you're gonna come back.

Last night before I went to sleep,

My knees dropped to the floor.

I turned me eyes up to the sky,

And I prayed: "Please help me, Lord.

"You know I've sowed my wild oats,
"And now the fun's all gone."

And then I heard these tender words,

And I put them in my song:

"Infamous Angel, come on home,

"To someone who loves you,

Well, I've heard 'em say there's one for everybody,

And I just knew somehow that you'd be the one for me.

'Cause making love with you's not just a hobby:

No, it's the flame that burnt the forest down in me.

And darling was it day or was it night-time

Were them whippoorwills a-moaning through the trees? Through the trees?

Spoken introduction by Iris Dement:

"No voice has inspired me more than my mother's.

She showed me that music is a pathway to higher ground."

I'm pressing on the upward way.

New heights I'm gaining every day.

Still praying as I'm onward bound:

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

Lord, lift me up and let me stand,

By faith on Heaven's table land.

Twelve-hundred miles, it's length and breadth,

That four-square city stands.

It's gem-set walls of Jasper shine,

They're not made by human hands.
One-hundred miles it's gates are wide:

Abundant entrance there.

With fifty miles of elbow room,

On either side to spare.

When the gates swing wide on the other side,

Just beyond the sunset sea.

There'll be laughter even after you're gone.

I'll find reasons to face that empty dawn.

'Cause I've memorised each line in your face,
And not even death can ever erase the story they tell to me.

I'll miss you.

Oh, how I'll miss you.

I'll dream of you,

And I'll cry a million tears.

But the sorrow will pass.

And the one thing that will last,