Roy Clark - A Simple Thing as Love lyrics

When you come across unto me with your hair the tangled gra** of evening breezes And you do not hide your face because somebody said one time it wasn't natural What a joy for us just running down this crooked trail of midnight And the peaceful things inside me that it does Then you whisper low I have to go the acid tears start coming slow To complicate a simple thing as love Awake now I don't hear the floorboards creaking as you walk back from the window Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns on my back where I lay dying Without you I'm a child who s**s the vacant thumb of emptiness Left crying when he has not had enough At the mercy of an empty room sing verses to some faded wall Confused about a simple thing as love It's too bad we couldn't stay here till the clock runs out and falls from sheer exhaustion Or till morning when I watch you as you stoop to pick your things up from the floor But too soon for us it's over and the shock of the electric lightbulb Sunrise from the ceiling up above As it dangles to remind us of the spiderweb that binds us And just complicates a simple thing as love Awake now I don't hear the floorboards creaking as you walk back from the window Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns on my back where I lay dying Without you I'm a child who s**s the vacant thumb of emptiness Left crying when he has not had enough At the mercy of an empty room sing verses to some faded wall Confused about a simple thing as love