There's a lipstick sunset   Smeared across the august sky   There's a bitter sweet perfume   Hanging in the fields   The creek is running high      And I left my lover waiting   In the dawn somewhere to wonder why   By the end of the day   All her sweet dreams would fade   To a lipstick sunset      Well, a radio was playing   And that ol' summer heat was on the rise   I just had to get away   Before some sad old song   Brought tears to my eyes      And lord I couldn't tell her   That her love was only killing me   By the end of the day   All her sweet dreams would fade   To a lipstick sunset      Well it's pretty as a picture baby   Red and blushing just before the night   Maybe love's like that for me   Maybe I can only see   As you take away the light      So hold me in the darkness   We can dream about the cool twilight   'til the dawning of the day   When I make my getaway   To a lipstick sunset      There will come another day   When I make my getaway   To a lipstick sunset      There will come another day   Then I'll make my getaway   To a lipstick sunset