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The Other Shoe Lyrics
One old brown shoe falls in slow motion
And the bedsprings hover right above your head
As bedsprings 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
And you're waiting 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
Then you'll try to find a doctor who can prescribe an elixir that'll make everything better
'Cept your late wife and her lover
And the bedsprings hover right above your head
As bedsprings do when you're beneath them
Someone else just climbed into your bed
She'd arranged for your shoes to be filled
Well, you've got your pride and a blue-steel .45
And you're waiting for the other shoe to fall
And you'll curse the rain that turns the dirt to mud
You'll take 35 south towards Laredo
Then you'll try to find a doctor who can prescribe an elixir that'll make everything better
'Cept your late wife and her lover
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very straight forward here, but a great story told in a great way, a suspicious lover tells his girl he is going to phoenix but instead hides underneath his own bed, with just his pride and his pistol, waiting for the 'other shoe to fall', meaning his lovers adulterer's shoes. he proceeds to kill both his lover and his lover's lover and the rest is the results of his actions, he has to bury the two, take off south and 'try to find a doctor who can prescribe an elixir that'll make everything better 'Cept your late wife and her lover'. a very powerful narrative in my opinion.