Drowning In The Lonesome Blues (Female Version)

Verse 1

End of the day I walk on through that door

A letter sitting on the table plain as morning light

Three words scrawled across the page cut me to the core

My baby packed his suitcase, and he vanished in the night

Pre-Chorus

I trace his name with shaking hands

The ink still wet the room still warm

His coffee cup still on the stand

He left between the dusk and storm

Chorus

Oh baby what did I do that made you go away

Oh baby what did I do

Oh baby what did I do that drove you off that day

I'm drowning in the lonesome blues

Verse 2

I keep replaying every word I ever said

Every night I stayed too late and every call I missed

I count the crooked photographs and empty half-made bed

The ghost of his goodbye still echoes in my fist

Pre-Chorus

I should've held him tighter then

I should've learned to read the signs

He's never coming home again

This silence cuts like winter pines

Chorus

Oh baby what did I do that made you go away

Oh baby what did I do

Oh baby what did I do that drove you off that day

I'm drowning in the lonesome blues

Bridge

The piano in the corner knows my sorrow

One sad chord a lonely bar

I'll play it till the pale tomorrow

Wondering who you think you are

To leave me here alone

Alone

Chorus

Oh baby what did I do that made you go away

Oh baby what did I do

Oh baby what did I do that drove you off that day

I'm drowning in the lonesome blues