Beauty at the Back Door-Billy Bob Thornton

There's a screened-in porch in the front but not the back The back's just got a door and a crepe myrtle bush And a little ole dried up garden and some woods way on the back There's a hickory nut tree that covers the whole roof Sounds like hand grenades hittin' the tin roof all the time There's an old wood floor that's bowed up just about everywhere It's got a thin coat of white stuff on it even though It's a dark wood floor There's a washing machine right outside the back door It's a ringer washer, the kind they don't make anymore I got my hand caught in it several times And usually got my a** whipped for it Even though I's the one that got hurt There's a snake stick, that's what they called it anyway By the back door because if you Wanted to go outside you'd usually need it Everything's green most of the time except in winter When you could see the highway, it's not a leaf on the trees There's an old rock, well, where we clean the squirrels I used to sit out by that and watch the Carbor girl come down the road She didn't have but one dress and that's all she needed It was kinda red and kinda gray and kinda tore up and kinda perfect She's built like a brick sh*t-house She had polish on her toenails that only went about halfway down ?Cause they was always tore up She used to walk across the side yard, right by the well And go stand by the crepe myrtle bush And look in the screen door She'd usually stand there for about ten minutes And back then I wasn't sure what she wanted These days I understand, if I'd a known then what I know now Well, my life might well have been pretty different Well, she was about eight or nine years older than I was when I first Started school I knew there was somethin' There was somethin' about the south and the air was a lot heavier And it seems like the women sweat even when they're not I don't know if you've ever heard rain on a tin roof or not But it's kinda tailor made for love And day I was in the house and I was lookin' back Toward the back screen door and there she was Standin' there for ten minutes The only thing different on this day is That my daddy went back there and talked to her And told her she looked pretty I thought the same thing but there was somethin' 'bout the look In his eye was a little different than the one I'd had in mine And he walked outside and they went past the crepe myrtle bush And past the well and out into the green And I walked to the back door and I watched for a long time And all I could see was trees after a time, I really couldn't see They came back out and my daddy was walkin' way ahead of her And she was kinda following, almost runnin' He acted like he didn't want to have anything to do with her And I was wondering why, why would you be so happy going in And so down coming out, I don't know That's what I thought then He didn't act like she's so pretty anymore Now I think I get it I think I've got it several times