[Verse 1]
When the hot September sun down in Texas
Sucked the streams bone dry
Turned the roads to dust
In the sleepy little towns down in Texas
The shades are all pulled down;
The streets are all rolled up

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And the only thing that breaks the silence
Are the trucks passin' by
Late at night on the front porch swing
You can hear their mournful cry

[Chorus]
I was just talkin' to the moon
Hopin' someday soon
I would be over
The memory of you
Is just too hard to hold

[Verse 2]
There's a pretty girl I left somewhere in Texas
Drought moved in
Crops dried up
Wind began to blow
And the heart of me is still somewhere in Texas
Maybe it's alive and well
I'd give the world to know
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And the only rain that falls around me now
Are the teardrops from my eyes
Late at night when I think of her
The sky begins to cry

[Chorus]
I was just talkin' to the moon
Hopin' someday soon
I would be over
The memory of you
Is just too hard to hold onto

[Bridge]
Now the wind across the plains
Is all that now remains
But the night shakes loose the names
And they never quite go back the way they came
So, good-bye rodeo
It's a long, funny way for a man to go
Never change
Never change at all

[Outro]
I was just talkin' to the moon
Hopin' someday soon
I would be over
The memory of you
Oh the memory of you
I was just talkin' to the moon
Hopin' someday soon
I could be
Over you