Broken Hearted Among the Pines

Just like the gold rush, deep in the darkest mine They struck a rich seam, impossible to refine They made an icon but the star then ceased to shine And now he's lying low down among the pines Caught in an endless bind where bramble barbs entwine His every movement seen as though he was divine But now he's dissipated, never to recombine And another cold wind blows down among the pines In the winter and in the summertime They traced your footsteps down by the Seattle skyline And all those last years, all that living on borrowed time And you left them broken-hearted among the pines Oh that girl, that girl, don't you lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night? In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine, I'll shiver the whole night through Her husband was a balladeer, five thousand miles from here He left his body on that cold cold floor But his soul has never been found Oh me, how cruel can this life be? Funny how they build they up and then they bring you down Not free with all this purgatory, Another frantic phone call from another distant town That girl, that girl, where will you go? I'm going where the cold wind blows In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine I'll shiver the whole night through Like the gold rush deep in the darkest mine They struck a rich seam, impossible to refine They made an icon but the star then ceased to shine And now he's lying low down among the pines