Ruby & Carlos-James Mcmurtry

[ti:Ruby & Carlos] [ar:James Mcmurtry] [al:Just Us Kids] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ruby & Carlos - James Mcmurtry [00:12.26]Ruby said you getting a sin of world of hurt [00:15.74] [00:17.03]Down below the mason dumb a** lined the food gets worse [00:21.39] [00:22.76]I can't go back to Tennessee [00:24.65] [00:25.46]That Nascar country's not for me [00:27.71] [00:29.96]Go on if you think you must [00:32.68] [00:35.69]Carlos packed his drums up in the darken night [00:38.61] [00:41.21]Ruby standing just outside the front porch light [00:44.66] [00:46.25]Chain smoking camel straights [00:48.91]The sky off to the east got grey [00:51.48] [00:54.34]And he rolled off in a cloud of dust [00:57.02] [00:59.09]In a grey coat nicard at the gate [01:02.02]She said you're right it's getting late [01:04.24] [01:04.88]You and me got work to do [01:07.51]We can't be burning day light too [01:10.05] [01:12.66]She took down the long laid rope [01:14.75] [01:15.47]And stayed off that slippery slope [01:17.23] [01:25.69]Now Aspen trees were turning gold up top [01:28.39] [01:31.17]The talk was buzzing round the beauty shop [01:34.00] [01:36.47]Wasn't he barely half her age [01:38.35] [01:39.26]Well that's how they do nowadays [01:41.01] [01:42.80]We should have all been so lucky [01:44.74] [01:48.91]By spring she had the run of the free born men [01:52.34] [01:54.72]Ruby turned 50 in a sheep camp tent [01:58.00] [01:59.53]Her body still could rock all night [02:02.33]But her heart was closed and locked up tight [02:04.90] [02:10.04]But Teddy feels all muddy and brown [02:12.52]The gossip long such quieted down [02:14.74] [02:18.24]After one more Cogans test [02:19.72] [02:20.82]Pouring coffee for the county vet [02:22.72] [02:25.09]Pictures on the ice box door [02:27.40]Carlos in the first gulf war [02:29.62] [02:30.17]Black eyed brown and youthful face [02:32.70]Smiling back from a Saudi base [02:34.95] [02:38.14]Then Carlos on the big bay mere [02:40.38] [02:41.19]Heavier now and longer haired [02:43.04] [02:45.69]Looking past the saddle shed [02:47.69]From way back on inside his head [02:50.16] [02:53.81]And the whole vet said one day Rub [02:55.97]That cold will break an egg in you [02:58.38] [03:00.80]Now and then one comes along [03:02.30] [03:02.83]You just can't write and he went on home [03:05.38] [03:08.92]And the storm bird didn't catch [03:10.59] [03:11.21]And blew back hard as she struck a match [03:13.72]But she cupped it just in time [03:16.21] [03:17.77]And she sent that ashtray flying [03:19.37] [03:24.27]You holding back the flood [03:25.85] [03:27.07]It just don't do no good [03:28.64] [03:29.75]You can't unclench your teeth [03:31.33] [03:32.34]To howl the way you should [03:34.19] [03:34.91]So you curl your lips around [03:37.05]The taste of tears and the hallow sound [03:39.19] [03:39.80]And no one owns but you [03:41.67] [03:42.86]No one owns but you [03:44.33] [04:05.37]Carlos took the road gig [04:07.09]And he saw it through [04:08.37] [04:10.97]He rode the tour bus [04:12.61]While the singer flew [04:13.80] [04:16.08]Managed out a music road [04:17.48] [04:18.07]Carlos never saw the studio [04:19.75] [04:22.80]The session guys had that all sewn up [04:24.92] [04:28.65]He looked out the window [04:30.35]And it starts to sleet [04:31.62] [04:34.07]Laying on a friends couch on Nevada street [04:36.51] [04:39.18]Lately he's been staying high [04:40.53] [04:41.42]Sick all winter and don't know why [04:43.59] [04:45.44]They don't know why or won't say [04:47.22] [04:47.94]They don't talk much down on the V.A [04:49.95] [04:54.05]And Ruby's in his thoughts some times [04:55.96] [04:56.56]What thoughts can get out past the wine [04:58.49] [05:02.22]He feels his fingers on his brow [05:04.04] [05:04.90]And right then he misses how [05:06.67]She looked in that grey morning light [05:08.71] [05:09.55]She never shaved like they all do now [05:11.87] [05:12.55]He sees it all behind his eyes [05:14.95]And his hands go searching but they come out dry [05:17.62] [05:21.22]Half way in that waken dream [05:22.84] [05:23.83]Carlos let's the land line ring [05:25.36] [05:33.34]He'd never guess it was Ruby calling [05:34.96] [05:35.67]A pen in her hip from the grey coat falling [05:37.95] [05:40.36]Figure eights and a lazy loop [05:41.79] [05:42.91]Stumbled on that lazy slope [05:44.66] [05:49.01]Holding back the flood [05:50.43] [05:51.65]It just don't do no good [05:53.43] [05:54.40]You can't unclench your teeth [05:56.13] [05:56.89]To howl the way you should [05:58.90] [05:59.58]So you curl your lips around [06:01.82]The taste of tears and the hallow sound [06:04.41]And no one owns but you [06:06.39] [06:07.45]No one owns but you