Baby, see how I been living   Velvet curtains on the windows to keep   The bright and unforgiving light from shining through   Baby, I remember all the things we did when we slept together   In the blue behind your eyelids, baby, sweet baby      Traced your scent through the gloom   'Til I found these purple flowers   I was spent, I was soon smelling you for hours   Lavender, lotus blossoms too   Water the dirt, flowers last for you, baby, sweet baby      Tangerines and persimmons   And sugarcane, grapes and honeydew melon   Enough fit for a queen   Lemon trees don't make a sound 'til branches bend   And fruit falls to the ground, baby, sweet baby      Come to my world and witness   The way things have changed   'Cause I finally did it, baby, I got out of La Grange   Got in my mercury and drove out west, pedal to the metal   And my luck to the test, baby, sweet baby      I been tryin' to enjoy all the fruits of my labor   I been cryin' for you, boy, but truth is my savior   Baby, sweet baby, if it's all the same   Take the glory any day over the fame, baby, sweet baby      I been tryin' to enjoy all the fruits of my labor   I been cryin' for you, boy, but truth is my savior   Baby, sweet baby, if it's all the same   Take the glory any day over the fame, baby, sweet baby