Paul Gilley

I've known men and I've known women Neither of the two do I know now I've known birdsong Long before the night is through Don't go wild swimming It's always colder than it looks somehow Maybe I heard wrong But wasn't that the lake we used to drive out to Trains are soon moving along And you walking in your summer clothes If you listen long enough to the water You'll hear something you didn't want to hear The radio on the way back home Was talking into those rough and narrow roads Playing old songs That you never heard so clear If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard Maybe he could've worked something From the feeling that I've got If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard I'll stand by some water somewhere Thinking about his lot If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard Even if he did not If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard How come no one notices the loneliness In the singing of the birds? Some nights you can look the whole sky over And nowhere will you find a moon Don't you think tonight That the clouds look a little lost I've got a few things in mind just to show you Don't worry it's too late to be too soon If the light would allow I would let you into the loneliness I got You'd walk into the centre of the road And cross the street any place that suited you I said "Your eyes they're so dark" You said "Your eyes they're so red" I don't know if you still see things that way Maybe you don't take risks like you used to All I know is that's the way That your memory moves through my head If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard Maybe he could've worked something From the feeling that I've got If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard I'll stand by some water somewhere Thinking about his lot If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard Even if he did not If Paul Gilley wrote the words To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard How come no one notices the loneliness In the singing of the birds?