The Yellow Circle Of Light Lyrics

Ash to ash and dust to dust

Is death the wage of wanderlust?

Your mournful cries and plaintive wails

Were not enough to tip the scales

Lovesick demons having fled

They left your heart and filled your head

Out poured the lines that had them sussed

No matter how they fought and fussed

There's a yellow circle of light where you once stood

Laying bare on solid wood

Bet you'd go back if you could

Write more wrongs than you should

They'd better nail your coffin tight

You've never gone down without a fight

Once having wrestled through the darkest night

You praised the Lord and saw the light

Wielding the words that rent the veil

You forged country music's holy grail

Oh chalice of shame and wretch and rot

A man can drink but a boy best not

Forever late for one more show

The robins have died the whippoorwills flown

Lost in this world you settled the score

The last living breathing troubadour

There's a yellow circle of light where you once stood

Laying bare on solid wood

Bet you'd go back if you could

Write more wrongs than you should

They'd better nail your coffin tight

You've never gone down without a fight

Once having wrestled through the darkest night

You praised the Lord and saw the light

Ramblin' man where'd you go?

Dressed all in white from head to toe

One last trip down a lonesome road

Into Luke The Drifter's dream

Into Luke The Drifter's dream

Into Luke The Drifter's dream abode

There's a yellow circle of light where you once stood