Lyrics Her First Mistake.lrc Lyle Lovett
[id: dycpaiji]
[ar: Lyle Lovett]
[al: The Road To Ensenada]
[ti: Her First Mistake]
[length: 06:29]
[00:13.56]Once upon a time ago
[00:15.78]Way up in the land of sleet and snow
[00:20.17]How this fairy tale would go
[00:22.82]I could not have known
[00:26.02]I had searched around this world so mean
[00:29.47]From Livingstone to Palestine
[00:32.76]Trying to pursue my dream
[00:36.04]Of love
[00:39.46]It was then I met this girl so fine
[00:42.41]She made me think so fast I left my thought behind
[00:46.66]And I tried to pass for a sophisticated
[00:51.38]Northern man
[00:53.06]I said, “Why, yes my dear I know exactly what you mean
[00:55.85]Because there? s not so much I haven? t done or seen
[00:59.83]And may I say your eyes are the loveliest
[01:03.24]Shade of jade”
[01:06.60]I said, “Come on baby
[01:09.78]Come on baby
[01:12.04]Come on baby”
[01:18.99]It was then I knew I had made my first mistake
[01:23.53]She did not even start to wait
[01:26.48]And as she turned around to walk away
[01:29.61]This is what she had to say
[01:32.76]She told me “Man, I come from way down South
[01:35.95]I? ve got a picket fence with a picket house
[01:39.86]And I don? t need no fast talking northern man
[01:44.22]Like you around”
[01:46.35]I said, “Well, come on baby
[01:50.23]Come on baby
[01:53.32]Come on baby”
[01:59.54]Honey, I don? t know what you just heard
[02:03.20]But Alabama is my favorite word
[02:07.70]And Birmingham
[02:09.42]Is a long way from here
[02:13.72]Why, I could see the light began to shine
[02:16.84]She turned back around her eyes met mine
[02:21.00]And suddenly the whole world became
[02:24.88]A better place
[02:27.07]Even if it was only for an instant
[02:30.35]Because it was then I knew I had made my
[02:34.50]Second mistake
[02:37.44]She told me, “Man that was a real good try
[02:40.44]But Alabama? s not where I reside
[02:43.96]I come from where the river is wide
[02:47.39]And the crawfish hide”
[02:51.08]I said, “Well come on baby
[02:54.70]Come on baby
[02:57.69]Come on baby”
[03:03.86]Honey, I don? t know what you just heard
[03:08.14]But Louisiana is my favorite word
[03:12.29]And New Orleans
[03:14.79]Is a long way from here
[03:18.13]She just looked at me and shook her head
[03:21.40]”Your lines are pretty sad” she said
[03:25.06]”You are a lonely, weak, pathetic man
[03:29.09]If this is doing the best you can”
[03:31.87]It was then I knew I had made my third mistake
[03:35.79]Yes, three strikes right across the plate
[03:39.14]And as I hollered honey, “Please wait”
[03:43.20]She was gone
[03:45.51]I said, “Well come on baby
[03:47.99]Come on baby
[03:52.01]Come on baby”
[03:58.72]Honey, I don? t know what you just heard
[04:02.40]Bartender set? em up are my favorite words
[04:06.93]Because the love I need
[04:09.35]Is a long way from here
[04:12.70]Oh the love I need
[04:14.52]Is a long way from here
[04:19.42]Yes well, there I sat so all alone
[04:23.25]Like a king who sits upon his throne
[04:26.03]And whose kingdom may have just gone home
[04:30.67]With another kingdom
[04:32.90]So as you can imagine much to my surprise
[04:36.29]When the door was flung back open wide
[04:40.05]It was a miracle, she walked inside
[04:43.68]And pulled her chair up next to me
[04:46.49]And that? s when she knew
[04:52.75]She had made her
[04:54.14]First mistake
[05:08.44]Well honey, I don? t know what you just heard
[05:15.24]But come on baby are my favorite words
[05:19.74]And where we? re going
[05:21.88]Is a long way from here
[05:25.34]And where we? re going to
[05:27.01]Is a long way from here
[05:32.37]So like I said before, I could not have known
[05:35.72]How this fairy tale would finally go
[05:39.42]Still the only certain thing for sure
[05:42.44]Is what I do not know
[05:44.86]So like the years and all the seasons pass
[05:48.77]And like the sand runs through the hour glass
[05:52.99]I just keep on running faster, chasing the happily
[05:58.28]I am ever after
[06:00.42]I just keep on running faster
[06:06.22]Chasing the happily
[06:08.98]I am ever after
[06:11.68]Year of Release: 1996