Half-Remembered Tune

Verse 1

Rum on my breath and a slow burn in the air

Lamplight spills across the barroom wood

I keep a broken heart somewhere between the keys

And a half-remembered tune the way you stood

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I'm just chasing smoke

Maybe I'm just singing slow

Chorus

Let it ride on the midnight train

Let it roll like a river in the rain

Pour me one more round of gone

And I'll be humming till the road moves on

Verse 2

Fingers find the fretboard soft as Sunday hymns

Slide guitar says what my lips won't say

I wrote your name in dust across a pickup window

And let the wind carry it all away

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I'm just chasing smoke

Maybe I'm just singing slow

Chorus

Let it ride on the midnight train

Let it roll like a river in the rain

Pour me one more round of gone

And I'll be humming till the road moves on

Bridge

Scat the sorrow till it turns to gold

Measure every long goodbye in time

Sweet and blue the notes unfold

And darling that's a loving kind of sign

Chorus

Let it ride on the midnight train

Let it roll like a river in the rain

Pour me one more round of gone

And I'll be humming till the road moves on

Hook

Move it on down

Move it on down

Move it on down now