[00:00.14]When I think of you Baton Rouge
[00:04.97]I think of a Mariachi band
[00:08.35]I think of sixteen and a crisp green football field
[00:15.02]I think of a girl I never had
[00:20.11]When I think of you Baton Rouge
[00:24.48]I think of a back seat in a car
[00:28.11]Windows are foggy and so are we
[00:32.98]as the police asked for our I.D.
[00:39.72]So helpless
[00:41.12]so helpless
[00:43.18]Ooohhh, ooohhh, so helpless
[00:47.88]ooohhh, so helpless
[00:52.73]Ooohhh, so helpless
[00:57.24]so helpless
[01:01.07]Well I once had a car lost it in a divorce
[01:05.66]the judge was a woman of course
[01:10.73]She said give her the car and the house and your taste
[01:14.12]or else I set the trial date
[01:20.28]So now when I think of you Baton Rouge
[01:24.92]and the deep southern belles with their touch
[01:29.34]I wonder where love ends and hate starts to blush
[01:34.32]in the fields in the swamps in the rush
[01:37.70]In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind
[01:42.07]when did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web
[01:47.09]Of malicious intent and you as poor, poor me
[01:51.20]at the fire at the joint, this disinterred and broken mount
[01:53.80]in the bedroom in the house where we were unmarried
[01:57.98]So helpless, so helpless
[02:03.22]so helpless
[02:06.39]So helpless, so helpless
[02:12.28]so helpless
[02:15.66]When was I the villain in your heart
[02:20.45]putting the brake on your start
[02:25.70]you slapped my face and cried and screamed
[02:30.11]that's what marriage came to mean
[02:35.21]The bitterest ending of a dream
[02:37.67]You wanted children and I did not
[02:44.50]was that what it was all about
[02:49.04]You might get a laugh when you hear me shout
[02:54.26]you might get a laugh when you hear me shout
[02:58.23]I wish I had
[03:00.13]So helpless, so helpless
[03:04.76]so helpless
[03:08.06]So helpless, so helpless
[03:13.95]so helpless
[03:16.45]Sometimes when I think of Baton Rouge
[03:22.45]I see us with two and a half strapping sons
[03:27.17]One and a half flushed daughters preparing to marry
[03:31.06]and two fat grandsons I can barely carry
[03:35.79]Daddy, uncle, family gathered there for grace
[03:41.50]a dog in a barbecue pit goes up in space
[03:46.10]The dream recedes in the morning with a bad aftertaste
[03:49.18]and I'm back in the big city worn from the race of the chase
[03:53.43]what a waste
[03:54.47]So thanks for the card the announcement of child
[04:00.04]and I must say you and Sam look great
[04:02.71]Your daughter's gleaming in that -
[04:06.34]- white wedding dress with pride
[04:08.05]sad to say I could never bring that to you that wide smile
[04:12.47]So I try not to think of Baton Rouge
[04:17.83]or of a, of a, of a Mariachi band
[04:22.07]Or of sixteen and a crisp green football field
[04:27.47]and the girl, and the girl I never had
[04:31.22]So helpless, so helpless
[04:37.17]so helpless
[04:40.32]So helpless, so helpless
[04:46.36]so helpless
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