Carla ringtone on your mobile phone

An empty house is hard to bear

Lonesome's falling everywhere

Without you there's no light coming in

That lucky dog jumped the fence

Ain't seen him around here since

And I don't guess I ever will again

It didn't bother me any, I was good to that dog

And just like you I'm gonna have to learn to let him go


Leaving me was one thing Carla

Why'd you have to leave so slow?


Slow and shifty backing out

You were trying to fill my head with doubt

You nearly had me walking out on you

About the oldest trick to be

Playing on someone as old as me

That can not be the best that you can do

It didn't bother me any when he come around

I just wish I hadn't been the last guy in town to know


I didn't mind you walking away

What hurt was how you walked so slow

You know, you go


You know that was so underhanded

Grabbing him just as you landed

After holding me the whole time you fell

You tell me he'll be good to you

Who wouldn't be? What else is new?

And now all that I can do is wish you well

It wouldn't have bothered me any

If you left me when you wanted to

But you just had to wait until you had some place better to go


Leaving me was one thing Carla

Why'd you have to leave so slow?

I didn't mind you walking away

What hurt was how you walked so slow