[Verse 1] He told me from the start he would go back home, Said his ring was a compass, said he would not roam. Then he slept in my silence with his head on my chest, I loved him like weather that was bound to turn west. They blame what I look like, not what I have seen, Beauty is only skin deep, the hurt runs mean. Do not judge a book by its cover or paint me obscene, I was trying to love someone, and my name is Jolene. [Chorus] I am not the thief, I am the bruise you cannot see, He swore he would return, he never swore to me. Lonely at the top is a line people lean, I never climbed any ladder. I just stand here, Jolene. Grass is greener, they say, but not where I have been, I was the stop on the way home, and my name is Jolene. [Verse 2] He buttoned up his shirt at the edge of dawn, Said love was a house he had to keep strong. I stood in my doorway, pretty as a sin, A picture on a postcard with nobody in. The town wrote its headline, made me their queen, Queens eat alone when the table is clean. I kept my hands steady and my conscience clean, I knew he would go back. I was left in between. [Chorus] I am not the thief, I am the bruise you cannot see, He swore he would return, he never swore to me. Lonely at the top is a line people lean, I never climbed any ladder. I just stand here, Jolene. Grass is greener, they say, but not where I have been, I was the stop on the way home, and my name is Jolene. [Tag] I loved him with the truth he carried, not a dream, He chose her, and I live with it. I am only Jolene.
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