Charles Ellsworth - Stuck out in Texas (Wild Coyote Sessions)

I wrote this song over a couple days crashing on my friend Sarah's couch in Houston when I was in Texas for SXSW 2013. I've always really loved this tune and feel like it fits any sort of arrangement I've thrown at it. Sometimes simplest is best though, and I think this version is proof of that. Just a man and his guitar...and some really nice microphones/cameras haha.
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Lyrics:
Were you out of luck?
Were you out of a job?
Did you care enough,
did you care at all?
Were you somewhere else,
when the clock struck twelve?
Girl them boys you've been seeing
ain't been treating you so well.
Tulsa was nothing more than OK at best
It's been all the way from Reno since I heard from you last
I said some things you know that I didn't mean
but this distance it gets, the best of me
and I wish you'd call
Lord I wish you'd call
I wish you'd call
Oh lord I wish you'd call.
You were my rock and
I sure wish you'd call.
cuz I'm Stuck out in Texas
No idea where you are.
There's no place else you know that I'd rather be
then back in them crazy outrageous Las Vegas streets
a pack of smokes each and a bottle of wine
We don't need roomservice, tell 'em we're doing fine
and I wish you'd call
Lord I wish you'd call
I wish you'd call
Oh lord I wish you'd call.
You were my rock and
I sure wish you'd call.
cuz I'm Stuck out in Texas
No idea where you are.
I've seen highways stretch off into nothingness
I've watched mountains reach up and touch the heavens
I found Paradise near that old creek bed.
But my happiness lives, where you rest your head.
My happiness lives, where you rest your head.
and I wish you'd call
Lord I wish you'd call
I wish you'd call
Oh lord I wish you'd call.
You were my rock and
I sure wish you'd call.
Way the fuck out in Texas
No idea where you are.