Red Bandana

(album: Songs We Wish We'd Written - 2001)

We left home when we was barely past eleven-teen
Been back and forth and all around through hell and rain
I've loved you half of your life and I'll keep on loving you
But I can't change in every way you want me to

We spend a lot of time out on the highway
Coming from some town we played along the way
After thirty years of knowing me the way you do
You know I can't change in every way you want me to

That red bandana tied around her auburn hair
She looks like she ought to be somebody's wife somewhere
Ain't never going to be no Bobby McGee but she's trying to
But I can't change in every way she wants me to

Every time you leave the stage I know you've had your fill
I wonder why she grew up and why I never will
I'm forty-one today still going on twenty-two
But I can't change and live the way she wants me to

That red bandana tied around her auburn hair
She looks like she ought to be somebody's wife somewhere
She ain't never going to be no Bobby McGee but she's trying to
But I can't change in every way she wants me to
We can't change and live the way she wants us to