Mickey Newbury - Some Memories Are Better Left Alone lyrics

A solitary whippoorwill Is singing in the night I watch until he spreads his wings And he sails into the sky Somewhere in the distance I can hear his painful song He said some memories Are better left alone Have you ever seen a freight train Rolling down the track Eighty wheels on a thread of steel Never looking back Even when I was young It still chilled me to the bone Yes some memories Are better left alone Do you ever have a longing for A pure and simple time When all we had between us Was a dream and one thin dime And we were flat out on the highway With no place to be but gone Yes some memories Are better left alone Well I feel just like that whippoorwill Singing in the night Trying once again to sleep I turn out the light Lying in the darkness I am waiting for the dawn Yes some memories Are better left alone I am lying in the darkness Waiting for the dawn Lord some memories Are better left alone