One old brown shoe falls in slow motion   And the bedsprings hover right above your head   As bed springs do, when you're beneath them   Someone else just climbed into your bed      By the time she thought you'd probably got to Phoenix   She'd arranged for your shoes to be filled   Well, you've got your pride and a blue-steel '45   Waited for the other shoe to fall   And you waited for the other shoe to fall      Dig a double grave out in the meadow   And you'll curse the rain that turns the dirt to mud   You'll take 35 south towards Laredo   And you'll try to find a doctor that'll prescribe an elixir   That'll make everything better except your late wife and her lover      By the time she thought you'd probably got to Phoenix   She'd sealed her fate and gotten herself killed   You've got your pride and a blue-steel '45   Waited for the other shoe to fall   And you waited for the other shoe to fall   And you waited for the other shoe to fall