Broken Heart on the Farm

I rise before the sun, touches the fence line

Feed them horses, do my chores, and keep the world in line

Same old dust on my boots, same old ache in my chest

I gave my life to this hard land

Tried to do my best

Then I met Gail by the barn

When the evening turned cold

She smiled like a promise

I was too poor to hold

I fell hard, I fell fast

Like a rain cloud through the sky

But she wore another man's ring

And I could only watch her by

I'm a lonely cowboy

With a broken heart

Workin' these acres while my dreams fall apart

I'd break my sorrow down at the end of the night

Lost in the dark till nothin' felt right

I loved a woman I could never call mine

Now the moon on the pasture won't ease up the pain

The pain inside

So I went to the bar with a neon burn low

Found a stranger at the counter with a drink

And a slow, easy glow

We laughed too loud, we drank too deep

Let the hours run wild

He took me back to his house

And I drifted off for a while

When I woke up in the morning

There was hell in the air

Gail stood in the doorway

And her husband was there

We'd all made a mess of the night

And the truth hit like a rain

Three broken hearts on a hard dirt floor

All tangled up in shame and pain

I'm a lonely cowboy

With a broken heart

Working these acres

While my dreams fall apart

I drank my sorrow down at the end of the night

Lost in the dark till nothing felt right

I loved a woman I could never call mine

Now the moon on the pasture won't ease up the tain inside

So I'll ride with the dawn and I'll face what remains

Let the horses keep moving through the dust and the tain

I lost love, I lost pride, but the field's still wide

And this lonely cowboy keeps on living

Through the night