Rodeo Wind

Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning

As he struggles with an old dream all night long

And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him

She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone

Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning

She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song

She watches as he takes, his old saddle from the wall

A sudden chill runs through her in the cold of the not quite dawn

She's losing him, to the rodeo wind

That blows through his soul, when the summer begins

When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again

But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind

One sure way to lose him

Is to try and make him stay

He can't explain he don't even know himself

But the force that drew her to him

Has just gotta break away

And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel

Is the only thing that helps

Now it all makes sense, those signs she's been seeing all along

She feels like such a fool, a woman ought to know

Just the other day, she saw him sittin' on the south fence

Throwing stones at prairie dogs, and staring down the road

She's losing him, to the rodeo wind

That blows through his soul, when the summer begins

When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again

But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind