In a bar in Toledo, across from the depot, on a barstool she took off her ring
I thought I’d get closer, so I walked on over, I sat down and asked her the name
when the drinks fin’lly hit her, she said „I‘m no quitter, but fin’lly quit living on dreams
I’m hungry for laughter, and, here ever after, I’m after whatever the other life brings
In the mirror I saw him, and closely watched him, I thought how he looked out of place
he came to the woman who sat there beside me, he had a strange look on his face
the big hand were callused, he looked like a mountain, for a minute I thought I was dead
be he started shakin‘, his big heart was breakin‘, he turned to the woman and said:
CHORUS