Time and love and a whippoorwill
One passing one gone and one lonesome still
Bare naked rain of a silverless cloud
I'm alone now

Everyone's talking about your new friend
With that old mime smile and the elephant pant
Legs like a rampeatus (?) standing over the crown
I'm alone now

But baby I've got a melody
And I've got a few things to say about you and me
And an old heavy heart that ain't ready to leave
It's here but I don't know how to be alone now

Coffee at dawn and a big mess of eggs
Running the morning hours down to the drags
Drunk with fidelity and reading old vowes
I'm alone now

Talk about peace in the valley and mules in the grass
Feet at the threshold and brains in the past
I've got my hand in my ears for that mockingbird song
And I'm alone now

But baby I've got a melody
And I've got a few things to say about you and me
And an old heavy heart that ain't ready to leave
It's here and I don't know how to be alone now