Jayton and Jill

Jayton had a job for seven bucks an hour At the fillin' station by the water tower Just checkin' oil and fixin' flats The kind of kid most folks just look past Jill was the local preacher's kid gone wild Most the time her daddy couldn't stand his own child He'd quote the scripture with an angry shout And list her all the reasons she would never turn out She was drunk one night on the fourth of July Parked in a pasture with an out-of-town guy He got mad when she said no And he tore her Sunday dress She was wanderin' alone on a county road When the lights came over the hill That was the moment when Jayton met Jill He said hey, do you need a ride home She go away, leave me alone But he noticed the bruise and the frightened tears Said there ain't no way in Hell I'm leavin' you out here It was rainin' a little and fixin' to storm And his Mustang jacket looked dry and warm So she let him wrap it 'round her and she climbed inside Sayin' OK I guess thanks for the ride At an all-night diner they waited out the storm Ended up talking right up 'til dawn By the time he dropped her off safe at home Neither one felt so alone Two lost souls found a connection that's blessin' both of them still On that night when Jayton when Jill And what Jayton never told her about that night Is how he'd taken his dad's old 45 He'd been drivin' 'round thinkin' how no one would miss him If he just ended it all He couldn't see past his own pain 'Til he saw a pretty girl walkin' in the rain Thank God he made it over that hill That was the moment when Jayton met Jill