Lonesome Town Drifter

Lonesome Town Drifter

Written by Mark D. Tuell

There was a day
and all to many nights
that a man
walked the streets
of life alone.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

Watching his mother die
with nothing he could do
to save her,
left him
as empty
that the beer glass is
he just placed
on the bar.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

Feeling lost
in a world,
that at times he thought
would be a better place
without him.
So he kept
to his life
alone,
smiling somewhat
at needed times.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

A man
with one heart
that pumps blood
not kool aid.
Always believing
after love lost
and loves won,
that life alone
is just the
way it's suppose to be.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

Moving on
from city to city,
living in
the dark of night.
Daylight for some reason
seems to hurt
his heart.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

Being a friend always
to anyone in need
of someone that would listen,
to their life's little problems.
It always helped
the caring part of it
when you bought him
a beer or two.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

On a rainy night
in Louisville Kentucky,
he gets up on stage
with the band
and makes love
with Elizabeth
the harmonica
that is his girl.
He takes her
for the night,
losing the lonieness
that is his.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

On another midnight stroll
just to look at the
dirty streets,
city lights
neon and all that,
see mabe a few stars
in the skies above,
or a glimpse of the moon.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

A birthday
October fifth
of Jack,
straight out of the bottle.
One woman's eye's
peered into his soul,
noticing her
lovely smile,
he'd known
for all of time,
taken by it all
captivated
with a woman
that real love
she is.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

Two souls finding love
in such a cold
desperate world.
He realized
that in his heart,
at least for a moment
she had taken
her place
and that brought
him happieness.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

That woman
did make it clear
that their love
for one another
is beauty in life.
Our desperado
came to terms
with a love
he'd never felt before.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he's called.

In his eye's
she is so beautiful,
he knows
God put in
a bit more time
in making her.
It is very true
their love
is the breath of life
he lives.

Lonesome town drifter
is what he was called.