Long Kiss Goodbye

Headed out to Phoenix Driving all day With a true love there beside me To see a band from Memphis play It was Phoenix where she'd grown up And how the summers burned I could see her youth and beauty and hard lessons learned We rolled up to the house where she'd slept so many years Met three generations of her family Didn't find a single thing to fear Held her close at Crescent Ballroom It was Valentine's Day As the ecstasy kicked in the band began to play Felt so proud to stand beside her Wished we'd never have to go Took her picture with the singer outside after the show At her sweet sister's apartment, I could see she was afraid As the tears filled up her eyes I learned my faith had been misplaced That was one thing that I did not see coming till it buried me alive That road trip was just a long kiss goodbye, another reason to cry Well I've been shown that long kiss goodbye by a few women before It's a cruel form of kindness when she don't know how to say That she knows she's leaving something good Just not good enough to stay It was a long drive back across the desert, she requested "no sad songs" But she could not keep from crying I just focused on the long road We both knew this was the comedown Nothing's ever what it seems Stopped for ice cream, it tasted so cool It still melted like our dream I sit alone in my apartment, hard steel above my knees Now there ain't much left but memories and nights like these