Jeff Lang - In A Town Like This lyrics

In a town like this idle words turn black Twist and turn behind your back And before you know it slip through the cracks And get taken as facts She's been with one man now (going) on year 14 It's the devil you know, versus a life unseen She may talk tough, but she laughs clean And pure as a dance, but given half a chance I'd kiss her neck sitting on the dunes Hear the wind in her hair play its lonely tune If I could do it all now it couldn't be too soon For me to look her in the eye And say I'm not gonna make any demands I want you to take a place in my plans Your ways, I can't say I'd understand But I can promise that I'll try This could all come to naught Still I feel it's been worth the thought 'Cause hope can't be sold or bought Like a shoe or an old guitar Thoughts like days and years fly by I may forget how she caught my eye Still she made me whole for a little while And that's more than some can say I first met her in the sticks She had mischief in her working its tricks When I saw her I heard Hendrix