Blue Banisters

There’s a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere
Johnny handed me a beer, said: How the hell did you get there?
Oh, Oklahoma, mhm, hm
There was flowers that were dry sittin’ on the dresser
She asked me where they from, I said: A place I don’t remember
Oh, Oklahoma, oh

Jenny jumped into the pool, she was swimmin’ with Nikki Lane
She said: Most men don’t want a woman with a legacy at our age
She said: You can’t be amused, be happy till you can’t
Lock in the pages with Russian poetry and be where you be
And I ain’t scared, ‘cause I met a man who said he’d come back every night
Just to help me if I’d paint my banisters blue
Blue banisters, oh
Said he’d fix my weather vane
Give me children, take away my pain
And paint my banisters blue

There’s a hole that’s in my heart
All my women try and heal
They’re doin’ a good job
Convincin’ me that it’s not real
It’s heat lightnin’, oh-uh
‘Cause there’s a man that’s in my past
There’s a man that’s still right here
He’s real enough to touch in my darkest nights
He’s, ooh-oh

Jenny was smokin’ by the pool
We were writin’ with Nikki Lane
I said I’m scared of the rain
I wish that it would rain
I said the power of us three
Can do absolutely anything
Except that one thing
The diamonds, the rest of the day
The thing that wash away the pain
But that’s okay, ‘cause

Now the weather turns to May
All my sisters come to paint
My banisters grey
My blue banisters grey in the Bay
Chucky’s makin’ birthday cake
Jake is runnin’, there’s a baby on the way
And now my blue banisters are grey

Summer comes, winter goes
Spring I skip, God knows
Summer comes, winter goes
Spring I sleep, heaven knows
Every time it turns to may
All my sisters fly to me
To paint, paint