Leave Me in the Night

Don't you, please, go away from me,

The fire we sit beside gone cold.

I hate that we're what you fear and flee

In the night to save your soul.

I know the sound of you prayin' for me

To keep the whiskey off my breath.

'Cause when that bottle's all I see

I ain't lovin' you 'til death.

Wouldn't trade my spurs

For wings to fly.

Wouldn't give my saddle

To save my life.

But I would say

My last goodbyes,

To my broken

Cowboy life,

If only you

Would stay with me,

Not leave me in the night.

Might be the worth of the seeds that fall

From my old family tree.

Keeps me from walkin' free and tall,

Curses of those come before me.

So I give my best, that's all I can.

To keep the whiskey off my breath.

'Cause when that bottle's 'tween you and me,

Scares me half to death.

I would say

My last goodbyes

To my broken

Cowboy life.

If only you

Would stay with me,

Not leave me in the night.  

-Cameron Burleson