text: I remember yesterday and Id sit and watch the hound dogs play
  Howlin at the china moon
  ? ? now yesterday is the busted blues
  Life was young, things were easy
  Days were short, nights were warm
  Time were good. hate was shallow
  ? ? the horse crazy behind the ? ? ? ?
  I swear that Ive seen your face somewhere back in that time
  And Im in theat place. do you remember?
  The old house stood like world war two with just rooms
  And a hall to be used
  The lady was mean
  Just slightly unclean with a heart of cold silver and gold
  Kitchen smelled of kerosene
  Celing hung down on ? veil? and rotted beams
  And the man, they said, his work could of hung in the room
  Now he sits around all day because his left arm wont move
  He was a master of the art of electricity
  He lectured on tours and circuitry
  He was self-employed, but he could never see his way into the light
  He had a room full of switches and dials and lights and
  A head full of clouds and eyes full of sight
  And when it got dark
  I could hear his heartbeat like a mother in the night
  She stood like a guardian ready to give everything up
  If I had asked for a sword and her blood in a cup
  But there was just time when I asked for too much
  She sighed because she could not give it
  We used to sit beneath the tree just the lady, the radio man and me
  And I think it was the winter of 63 the man went away and let us be
  It was early on an august day that the lady decided she must go away
  Her heart it seems could not pay the price for what her body was buying
  I came home from school and I found the note went into the kitcken
  And lit the old stone with songs set on overload
  I turned on the tv, spent the rest of the sfternoon watching
  All my cartoons thru the hall
  And across the porch was the sun surrendered like a crying torch