That’s What I Thought

Verse 1

Packed up my truck before the sun came up

Coffee cold in a dented tin cup

She left a note taped to the door

Three words I'd read a thousand times before

Said she was sorry said she had to go

Reckoned I already ought to know

Pre-Chorus

And I stood there in the kitchen light

Wondering if I'd ever get it right

Every sign was hanging plain as day

But I looked the other way

Chorus

That's what I thought when she walked out that door

That's what I thought but I don't think no more

Thought I had the handle on her heart and soul

Thought I knew her story told

That's what I thought and I was wrong again

That's what I thought back then

Verse 2

She wore that red dress on a Tuesday night

Hummed old songs by the porch lamp light

Stared out past the barbed wire fence

Lost in some quiet holy evidence

I asked what's on your mind my dear

She just smiled and said nothing's here

Pre-Chorus

And the crickets sang their lonesome tune

Underneath a honey-colored moon

I could have leaned in close and heard

But I hung on every word I thought I knew

Chorus

That's what I thought when she walked out that door

That's what I thought but I don't think no more

Thought I had the handle on her heart and soul

Thought I knew her story told

That's what I thought and I was wrong again

That's what I thought back then

Bridge

Now I count the miles on a gravel road

Sitting heavy with a heavy load

Every whisper every sideways glance

Was a warning I let slip by chance

Maybe lonesome is a lesson bought

Maybe love is what I thought was not

Guitar Break

Verse 3

Found her letters in the dresser drawer

Dates and secrets I'd never saw

Little prayers and folded photographs

Held like some believer's epitaph

All the ways she tried to let me in

All the places I refused to begin

Pre-Chorus

And the porch light flickers all alone

Same old house same old stone

I could blame the wind or blame the rain

But I wrote this story plain

Chorus

That's what I thought when she walked out that door

That's what I thought but I don't think no more

Thought I had the handle on her heart and soul

Thought I knew her story told

That's what I thought and I was wrong again

That's what I thought back then

Outro

That's what I thought

That's what I thought

Lord I thought

But I don't think no more

No I don't think no more