Away out back a wife left alone for years
Husband went looking for work as he said..
Nobody living close at all for endless miles
A prisoner of silence alone and a life to dread..
One day exactly as the last one before always
Time can be an enemy of one's very inner soul..
Living within her memories long dead and gone
Has a beautiful woman young feeling now old..
Riding old horse to the gate some miles away
For something to do and pass a little of her time..
No cars seem to ever come this way any more
If ever she thinks a conversation would be divine..
A two way phone to shop so far away to order
Her monthly goods delivered by plane left at gate..
A pension all to make ends meet and pay shop
Horse dragging sled to pick them up a life to hate..
The very odd letter written and received in mail
So reluctant to complain to any that she knows..
Rain seldom falls out here an old well fills a gap
And every night that howling wind it sadly blows..
She could fix that flapping piece of roofing iron
But it is in a strange way keeping her company..
Several chickens a dog a horse a cow a rooster too
Is all she has out there to keep her busy as it be..
A country singer of sorts losing his way called in
To ask directions to a place he'd passed way back..
A night of old songs in moonlight upon the porch
Endless miles out upon an untraveled old dirt track..