[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:13.55]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [00:23.31]Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes [00:33.49]She said I feel like a bird in a cage [00:38.75]But come September I'm flying away [00:42.64]I said I'm gonna miss you then I made her promise to write [00:53.43]Since we were tall as the corn in the spring [00:58.29]We shared every secret shared every dream [01:03.12]So anxious to grow in the new summer rain [01:08.47]And bloom like a rose on the calico plains [01:24.28]How could she hear as we laughed on that warm summer night [01:34.13]The tiny heart of the baby she carried inside [01:44.23]I stood beside her when September came [01:49.27]Watched her get married and caught the bouquet [01:53.25]And like those hand me down dresses she gave me [01:57.50]I made her dreams mine [02:03.62]From a seat by the window on wings made of steel [02:09.00]I stared at the patchwork over the fields [02:13.86]Where young tears that once fell like warm summer rain [02:19.09]Were turning to snow on the calico plains [02:53.85]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [03:03.90]Closer to thirty but farther away in her eyes [03:13.87]She holds her babies like she holds her dreams [03:19.01]Each night she kisses and rocks them to sleep while [03:23.87]She reads the letters she makes me promise to write [03:44.30]Sweet Abliena looks out at the Midwestern sky