Why I was just a stranger
There in Travis county
I'd known not a soul
So glad that you found me
It was a lazy summer
The heat heavy like led
And you played the murder record
And we laid upon your bed
Then wiled around the lake
And underneath the bridge
We exchanged loving looks
And books that we'd read
I hold those days close
I take them here I go
Somewhere into dreams 
With other lonely things
With them I know I belong
Because I have always been a drifter
And a seeker all my life
Oh I never sought to see so much
That I don't see now what I leave behind
Oh no

Far north from San Antone
Approach Wichita Falls
Texas midnight radio
Played a murder song
Oh, I held my heart
And I choked while I steer
 [bad word] so far and to give and to give
To watch it now disappear
Well loneliness will bleed you
And make you drift and stray
But it was that very loneliness
That made our hearts first meet

When I was just a stranger
There in Travis county
I'd known not a soul
So glad that you found me
So glad, So glad.