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If You Say No (The LH7 near Bandera)

from Live By Your Word by Eric Dahl

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If You Say No (The LH7 near Bandera)

© 2011 by Eric Dahl

I know that you were up at dawn, your horses they don’t wait
They whinny and they paw the ground, telling you you’re late
Orion’s hanging by your trailer, you’re nowhere to be seen
You don’t hear me cause you’re dead asleep
As I whisper through your window screen.

If you say no, and I walk along the pasture to my car
If you come outside for a cigarette, just the way you are
Sitting on that steel step
Would you just think about waving goodbye?
Sometimes things don’t work out, nobody’s asking why.

There’s a band in town at the Cabaret, they know how we feel
There’s a guitar player from Houston, there’s a ghost on pedal steel
There’s a San Antonio drummer,
There’s a Louisiana woman in jeans,
And an old coyote who sings like a dog lost in his cactus dreams.

If you say no, and I walk along the pasture to my car
If you come outside for a cigarette, just the way you are
Sitting on that steel step
Would you just think about waving goodbye?
Sometimes things don’t work out, nobody’s asking why.

Out on the Medina River there’s a place I love to go
A longhorn ranch with a sun-baked tack house
And a shady bench where I sing my show.
I swear to God there’s one old steer, horns clear out to the moon
He listens close till I screw up, and he leaves if I stop to tune.

If you say no, and I walk along the pasture to my car
There’ll be no one back there waving goodbye
That’s just the way you are.
Sitting on that steel step as the tail lights drift by
Sometimes things don’t work out, nobody’s asking why.

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from Live By Your Word, released July 1, 2011

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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