Goodnight Adeline

To all you lonely welfare wives, alone on the end a Saturday night Your love light shines like a neon barroom sign, Sometimes headlights pull into the yard, But they never stay, and your heart grows hard, You lost your chance to the dance with your right hand man Oh the moon in your face, in a far off field, The sun going down and that's the way it feels, Don't you leave the light on, goodnight Adeline The scarecrow cries, when the harvest dies, The house by the freeway, built on lies, And my bottle blond sweetheart holding on to the long goodbye She's a face in the window, on the endless plain, Waiting on a truck, waiting on a train, But there's sheets on the line, and its looking like rain Oh the moon in your face, in a far off field, The sun going down and that's the way it feels, Don't you leave the light on, goodnight Adeline Oh the moon in your face, in a far off field, The sun going down and that's the way it feels, Don't you leave the light on, goodnight Adeline The years fly by and it clips your wings, But the makeup makes a brand new dream, Under stars and bars and the ghost of your right hand man Some day they say, it'll all come around But they never seen the outskirts of town, Where her love light shines like a neon barroom sign Oh the moon in your face in a far off field, The sun going down and that's the way it feels Don't leave the light on, goodnight Adeline