Promises He Wore On His Grin

there were lights blazing to the east but her eyes were fixed to the west someplace out in that darkness he rode into the night with his gun in hand to regulate the doubters she lay in the aftermath of the gunfight with her cards and flowers wondering where she had gone so wrong wondering if she would ever get that white picket fence with the two kids and all the fixins of her dreams dawn begins to do its silent dance as she worried the edge of her dress and looked so like a lost angel fallen from grace but holding her own she will make breakfast for the townsmen and serve up the hard liquors just a matter of time she thinks to herself before he will come back this way take her up to the bedroom with promises on his grin and for a moment she will believe once again that itll all change he will take her far away from this place someday she will have the dreams but for now she slips the ring into her pocket and gets back to work someday someday