Blue Banisters
[00:01.32] There's a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere
[00:06.11] Jenny handed me a beer, said, "How the hell did you get there?"
[00:09.32] Oklahoma
[00:13.57] Mm, mm
[00:18.35] There were flowers that were dry, sittin' on the dresser
[00:22.60] She asked me where they're from, I said, "A place I don't remember"
[00:27.12] Oklahoma (oh)
[00:36.70] Jenny jumped into the pool, she was swimmin' with Nikki Lane
[00:40.95] She said, "Most men don't want a woman with a legacy, it's of age"
[00:47.58] She said, "You can't be a muse and be happy, too
[00:50.25] You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry and be happy"
[00:57.14] And that scared me
[01:10.69] 'Cause I met a man who
[01:13.35] Said he'd come back every May
[01:17.33] Just to help me if I'd paint
[01:21.05] My banisters blue
[01:25.58] Blue banisters, ooh
[01:30.89] Said he'd fix my weathervane
[01:35.13] Give me children, take away my pain
[01:39.11] And paint my banisters blue
[01:43.90] My banisters blue
[01:47.88] There's a hole that's in my heart all my women try and heal
[01:52.39] They're doin' a good job convincin' me that it's not real
[01:57.45] It's heat lightning
[02:01.45] Oh, oh
[02:05.70] 'Cause there's a man that's in my past, there's a man that's still right here
[02:08.88] He's real enough to touch and in my darkest nights
[02:15.54] He's shinin'
[02:19.80] Ooh
[02:24.32] Jenny was smokin' by the pool, we were writin' with Nikki Lane
[02:29.10] I said, "I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires, I wish that it would rain"
[02:34.41] I said, "The power of us three can bring absolutely anything
[02:37.61] Except that one thing, the diamonds, the rust, and the rain
[02:51.43] The thing that washes away the pain"
[03:00.46] But that's okay, 'cause
[03:02.58] Now when weather turns to May
[03:07.10] All my sisters come to paint
[03:11.09] My banisters green
[03:15.07] My blue banisters grey
[03:20.91] Tex and Mex are in the Bay
[03:25.69] Chucky's makin' birthday cake
[03:29.68] Chickens runnin' barefeet, there's a baby on the way
[03:35.26] And now my blue banisters are green and grey
[03:40.83] Ah-ah
[03:47.78] Summer comes, winter goes
[03:52.05] Spring, I skip, God knows
[03:56.85] Summer comes, winter goes
[04:01.37] Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows
[04:07.21] Every time it turns to May
