Dim Lights, Thick Smoke

Dwight Yoakam · 3 Pears [2012]

Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand

Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

You'll never make a wife to a home loving man.



A home and little children mean nothing to you

A house filled with love and a husband so true

You'd rather have a drink with the first guy you meet

The only home you know is that bar down the street.



Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand

Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

You'll never make a wife to a home loving man.



A drinking and dancing, to a honky-tonk band

when you left your loving family life

That's right back where you ran

But you won't always look so smart

When someday that lonely barroom

Breaks your honky-tonk heart.



Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand

Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

You'll never make a wife to a home loving man...



Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand

Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music

You'll never make a wife to a home loving man...