Then Came The Night-Trace Adkins

[ti:Then Came The Night] [ar:Trace Adkins] [al:Comin' On Strong] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Then Came The Night - Trace Adkins [00:13.84]Long-legged shadows [00:15.85] [00:17.15]Mississippi sunset [00:19.20] [00:20.09]She was standing like a candle [00:22.94] [00:24.05]That hasn't been burned yet [00:26.17] [00:27.47]The wind was blowin' [00:29.91] [00:31.02]Clouds like ashes [00:33.14] [00:34.15]Had my hand in my pocket [00:36.65] [00:37.98]Reaching for my matches [00:40.41] [00:42.41]I can see those [00:43.74]Cotton sheets dancin' [00:46.89] [00:49.39]On her mama's clothesline in my head [00:54.07] [00:56.16]From my lips a [00:57.77]Lucky Strike was danglin' [01:00.43] [01:03.10]The day was dyin' in a sea of red [01:08.16] [01:09.23]Then came the night [01:10.94]Warm and dark [01:12.50]Draggin' it's chains [01:14.03]Across our hearts [01:15.91]The moon was full [01:17.69]The grass was wet [01:19.63]Making us scream [01:21.42]Making us sweat [01:23.22]Holdin' on tight [01:25.00] [01:26.33]It was wrong [01:27.52]It was right [01:29.12] [01:30.14]Then came the night [01:33.71] [01:37.12]There was a time [01:38.98] [01:40.49]When love was a flower [01:42.77] [01:44.01]Now it's a vine [01:45.82] [01:47.48]Climbin' up the tower [01:49.62] [01:50.68]And the river just rolls [01:53.05] [01:54.60]Past the garden [01:56.69] [01:57.63]Where love won't grow [01:59.85] [02:01.11]And the ground has hardened [02:03.58] [02:05.91]I can see that tattered [02:08.14]White flag flyin' [02:10.78] [02:12.89]I can hear the ringin' mission bell [02:17.76] [02:19.76]Telling of the innocence that's dyin' [02:24.24] [02:26.57]A sound that I remember oh so well [02:31.45] [02:32.85]Then came the night [02:34.34]Warm and dark [02:36.06]Draggin' it's chains [02:37.68]Across our hearts [02:39.54]The moon was full [02:41.37]The grass was wet [02:43.10]Makin' us scream [02:44.90]Makin' us sweat [02:46.71]Makin' us cling [02:48.32]Makin' us claw [02:50.03]Makin' us rise [02:51.88]Makin' us fall [02:53.56]Breath on breath [02:55.27]Skin on skin [02:56.99]I can't go back [02:58.78]There again [03:00.52]Holdin' on tight [03:02.11] [03:03.34]It was wrong [03:05.25]It was right [03:06.42] [03:07.61]Then came the night [03:11.49] [03:28.44]I remember that summer [03:30.01] [03:31.71]I was working for her daddy [03:33.83] [03:35.43]I was still a boy [03:36.86] [03:38.65]But I knew I was ready [03:40.50] [03:42.21]When she reached out [03:43.48] [03:44.17]And took my hand [03:45.75]She became a woman [03:47.07] [03:47.62]And I became a man [03:49.15] [03:55.11]I wonder if she still thinks about me [03:57.24] [04:01.03]The way I still think about her [04:03.18] [04:08.74]You don't forget something like that [04:10.93] [04:14.76]There's only one first time [04:16.64] [04:17.52]Long-legged shadows [04:19.36] [04:20.55]Mississippi sunset [04:22.55] [04:23.61]She was standing like a candle [04:26.27] [04:27.61]That hadn't been burned yet