Paul Gilley

I've known men and I've known women
Neither of the two do I know now
I've known birdsong
Long before the night is through
Don't go wild swimming
It's always colder than it looks somehow
Maybe I heard wrong
But wasn't that the lake we used to drive out to

Trains are soon moving along
And you walking in your summer clothes
If you listen long enough to the water
You'll hear something you didn't want to hear
The radio on the way back home
Was talking into those rough and narrow roads
Playing old songs
That you never heard so clear

If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
Maybe he could've worked something
From the feeling that I've got
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
I'll stand by some water somewhere
Thinking about his lot
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
Even if he did not
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
How come no one notices the loneliness
In the singing of the birds?

Some nights you can look the whole sky over
And nowhere will you find a moon
Don't you think tonight
That the clouds look a little lost
I've got a few things in mind just to show you
Don't worry it's too late to be too soon
If the light would allow
I would let you into the loneliness I got

You'd walk into the centre of the road
And cross the street any place that suited you
I said "Your eyes they're so dark"
You said "Your eyes they're so red"
I don't know if you still see things that way
Maybe you don't take risks like you used to
All I know is that's the way
That your memory moves through my head

If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
Maybe he could've worked something
From the feeling that I've got
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
I'll stand by some water somewhere
Thinking about his lot
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
Even if he did not
If Paul Gilley wrote the words
To the saddest song that Elvis ever heard
How come no one notices the loneliness
In the singing of the birds?