Tears Don't Dry In Alabama Lyrics

It's six o'clock, Sunday morning

At the Shamrock Motel

The ditches around us are overflowing

So we stayed all night

Must've gave each other hell

I see diamonds strewn across the floor

Distant thunder shakes a paper-thin door

But now it's coming back to me

It's just shattered glasses

Shining off the snow from a dying TV

Tears don't dry in Alabama

It's raining all of the time

They never dry in Alabama

I barely even need to cry

The boy passed out lying next to me

Never has to grow up and be a man

His future is shaped, a family destiny

'Til then he's gonna get away with all that he can

When summer's over he'll go Roll Tide

And he'll let go of my hand

Me, I'll stay here and hide

I know I'll never cross those tracks

Even if I ran and ran and ran and ran

Tears don't dry in Alabama

It's raining all of the time

They never dry in Alabama

I barely even need to cry

He swears he loves me

But I know his mama wouldn't understand

It's the same sad story

It always has to be

When a rich boy wants a girl

With dirty feet from this dirty land

Tears don't dry in Alabama

It's raining all of the time

They never dry in Alabama

I barely even need to cry