He Carried Her Memory-Bradley Walker

[ti:He Carried Her Memory] [ar:Bradley Walker] [al:Highway of Dreams] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]He Carried Her Memory - Bradley Walker [00:00.02]Written by：Jim McBride [00:00.04] [00:13.90]It was all that she left him the night that she left him [00:20.37]So he clung to her memory with all of his might [00:28.81]He carried it with him everywhere he went [00:35.34]Like a soldier who just couldn't give up the fight [00:43.66]He took it to work and he brought it back home [00:48.73] [00:50.23]He took it so hard couldn't leave it alone [00:56.83]We all called him crazy in our little town [01:03.45]The way that he carried her memory around [01:21.91]He boxed it up when he sold their old house [01:28.21]It rode right beside him there in the front seat [01:36.60]He littered his new place with those same old heartaches [01:43.11]It felt right at home there with her memory [01:51.42]He took it to church with him three times a week [01:57.95]He took it to bed when he layed down to sleep [02:04.55]The weight of remembering just wore him down [02:11.17]The longer he carried her memory around [02:29.34]When she never came back he gave up on Jesus [02:35.98]And he never darkened another church door [02:44.22]He took up with whiskey and he took up with women [02:50.79]'Till one night he just couldn't take anymore [02:59.04]He cried 'God forgive me but I've lost my will' [03:05.59]As he reached for that cold empty piece of blue steel [03:12.27]Then he put another big hole in his heart [03:18.92]The night that he carried her memory too far