Verse 1:
It was just as I was leaving
Throw some change up on the bomb

She aught my eye through the swinging door
She was standing out by my car
I said I thought you moved to the city girl

No one never did find the time I've been wasting away, at my sister's place
Just North of the county line


Well I gazed out across the gravel line
To the road that leads to town
Thinking all the ways that I broke your heart

Yeah, thinking how it all went down

Chorus:

And I'm saying it's a strange thing to see you now
I've been running so long on the same old ground
Gonna rattle these chains till the morning light

If I ever loved once, you know
I never loved right by you


Verse 2:
So we go up to the turn-pipe
Where the whole world turns to sky

I took her hand, but she drew away
Like a bird getting ready to fly
She said I ain't so young, and I met someone

He's a rock that just won't roll
And I gotta find out, if I only love once
So does love keeṗ coming to call


Chorus:
Cause it's a strange thing to see you now

I've been running so long on the same old ground
Gonna rattle these chains till the morning light
If I ever loved once, you know

I never loved right by you

Verse 3:

There's a half built house in the potter's field
All the timbers are turned to gray
There's an old brown dog living on the porch

I seen them just the other day
Well I laid those planks, and I drove those nails
But it never did satisfy him

And a man must forfeit all he owns
For a glimpse at the reason why


Chorus:
It's a strange thing to see you now
I've been running so long on the same old ground

Gonna rattle these chains till the morning light
If I ever loved once, you know
I never loved right


It's a strange thing to see you here
If the world don't mine, yeah you better leave the keys

Gonna rattle these chains till the morning light
If I ever loved once, you know
I never loved right