[Intro] [Verse 1] The ceiling fan turns slow above this sagging bed I lie here soiled and shaking, half-alive, half-dead The bottle’s long since empty, the cigarettes burned down And I can’t recall her name, though she wore my wedding band I spent my years in whorehouses and smoke-filled rooms Shot my way through trouble, danced with other women’s perfume Drank the nights to blindness, left a trail of broken vows Now the past just blurs together and I don’t know who she was [Chorus] I can’t remember her name, Lord, it won’t come to me After all those painted ladies and the whiskey and the sheets She stayed when I was worthless, she stayed when I was mean But the years and the liquor washed her clean out of my mind [Verse 2] I see faces in the shadows, soft and hard and young Some I paid for by the hour, some I never even loved I rode hard and I lived harder, left the good ones far behind And the one who waited longest is the one I can’t define The ranch is falling quiet, the wind moves through the boards I call out in the darkness for a name I never stored She must’ve had a soft one, something gentle, something true But it slipped between the bottles and the bodies that I knew [Chorus] I can’t remember her name, Lord, it won’t come to me After all those painted ladies and the whiskey and the sheets She stayed when I was worthless, she stayed when I was mean But the years and the liquor washed her clean out of my mind [Bridge] If she’s still out there waiting, or if she’s long since gone I hope she found some peace that I could never give I lie here in my ruin, an old man lost and stained Trying hard to summon just one word that was her name [Final Chorus] I can’t remember her name, Lord, it won’t come to me After all those painted ladies and the whiskey and the sheets She stayed when I was worthless, she stayed when I was mean And the last thing I will lose is the one I never kept [Outro] Just an empty name On an empty ranch And an old man Who forgot
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