Seventy-Nine-Four

Prologue

Sun coming up in Gibson County

Footprints in the morning dew

Wife’s voice calling through the kitchen window

Pie cooling and the whole town knew

She wore red on Sundays, boots by the back door

Wind tangled her hair in May

If I’d known the shape of sorrow

I’d have begged the night to stay

Crows on a fence row, warning on the breeze

Hounds singing out past dark

I carried that picture, faded at the edge

A story ending before it could start

Hmm

Hmm [Chorus]

Now they call me seventy-nine-four

Locked away inside this Michigan City cage

Seventy-nine-four

Spending twenty-five counts of misery on this cage

Verse 1

Stumbled through the sycamores

Felt the steel go cold inside my jacket sleeve

Waited by his farmhouse porch

Knowing I wouldn't leave

Chorus

Now they call me seventy-nine-four

Locked away inside this Michigan City cage

Seventy-nine-four

Spending twenty-five counts of misery on this cage

Verse 2

The jury had no sympathy

When I told them how she looked at the bottom of the well

Wiping off my heavy blade

Before the sirens began to swell

Bridge

State line ghosts

River water dreams

Iron bar reality

Wabash rising high tonight

Chorus

Now they call me seventy-nine-four

Locked away inside this Michigan City cage

Seventy-nine-four

Spending twenty-five counts of misery on this cage

Chorus

Seventy-nine-four

Locked away inside this Michigan City cage

Seventy-nine-four

Spending twenty-five counts of misery on this cage