Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Letter from Omaha, artist - Josh Ritter. Album song Josh Ritter, in the genre Иностранная авторская песняDate of issue: 11.10.1999
Record label: Josh Ritter
Song language: English
Letter from Omaha |
| Well I can’t sleep with all these hand-me-downs |
| Battered up chests and faded dreams |
| Every new life seems to spin away |
| Like sand escaping through the seams |
| Send me a letter from Omaha |
| Said a needle or thread could mend the tears |
| But tonight the cotton fields, they |
| Smell like calico |
| And the color of your hair |
| Stars stand against the lonely blue |
| Like pin-pricks made by midnight hands |
| They tried to sew you a pure white dress |
| Got tied up in the misdeeds and demands |
| Cotton burned all brown and wasted |
| Like an innocence fell to disrepair |
| But tonight the ashes, they |
| Smell like calico |
| And the color of your hair |
| If I could have my one and only wish |
| I’d sew your hair all to the lining of my shirt |
| I’d stand in the noon day clean and golden |
| Not the color of the dry land dirt |
| Send me a letter from Omaha |
| Said a needle or thread could mend the tears |
| But tonight the sugarcane, it |
| Smells like calico |
| And the color of your hair |