Baby, see how I been living

Velvet curtains on the windows to

Keep the bright and unforgiving

Light from shining through



Baby, I remember all the things we did

When we slept together

In the blue behind your eyelids

Baby, sweet baby



Traced your scent through the gloom

'Til I found these purple flowers

I was spent, I was soon smelling you for hours



Lavender, lotus blossoms too

Water the dirt, flowers last for you

Baby, sweet baby



Tangerines and persimmons

And sugarcane

Grapes and honeydew melon

Enough fit for a queen



Lemon trees don't make a sound

'Til branches bend and fruit falls to the ground

Baby, sweet baby



Come to my world and witness

The way things have changed

'Cause I finally did it, baby

I got out of La Grange



Got in my Mercury and drove out west

Pedal to the metal and my luck to the test

Baby, sweet baby



I been tryin' to enjoy all the fruits of my labor

I been cryin' for you boy but truth is my savior



Baby, sweet baby if it's all the same

Take the glory any day over the fame

Baby, sweet baby