Luyện nghe bài hát Raelene Wheeler

Raeleen was the first girl I loved
Through the year of high school, we were thicker than blood
up in Mississippi, and starvin' for fun
We made and dreamed up places to run
I was that summer with the big dreams I had
And the songs I'd written, well, the world bad
But a pretty girl needs more comfort and
Than a black notebook is likely to hold

Hey, Raelene, it's a wide world between pearl and the bright L.A. lights
And if I'd done it all without I'd still be in Jackson tonight

Hollywood ain't an endangered breed
But is like lightnin', and it sure struck me
The hit songs, the women, the standing-room
And twenty years of hard labor, on to it all
i-20 headed east from Monroe
A bus bound for Jackson and a homecoming
Staring through the dark glass at the flat beyond
Tryin' not to look at a face is gone

Hey, Raelene, a wife at 19, but I heard you out all right
And every now and again, I wonder are you somewhere in Jackson

Well, we killed 'em, we 'em, burned the place to the ground
And in the room quiet, I was still coming down
in the doorway appeared an old flame, full-grown
Looking pretty as ever, and alone
She said the divorce nearly broke her, she was to stand
And as she talked it came clearer that she wanted a
So I drew her close to me, and I kissed my rae
And the miles and the just melted away

Then I glanced in the mirror, and in a second's time
Just before that old face as mine
I saw a strange, sad man in a cheap rhinestone
And a he held onto like his last hope on earth
He was worn and trod down as the road he'd on
And his were half-dead, lookin' too hard, too long
His life measured in that flashed and grew dim
no one really happy, least of all him

Then the loading gate slammed, and I let my fall
We traded numbers, small talk, to call
And as she from me, and the night closed around
I up a black notebook and I let it spill down

Hey, Raelene, it's a long way between the wantin' and the makin' it
And if I was the one you needed I'd never leave Jackson tonight
(Tag) yeah, if I had it all to do over I'd still be in tonight