The rain fell slow and steady as the warm mist began to rise
past the garden gate I see the water dripping down the honysuckle vines.
I can smell the earth and I can feel the moisture and I have to close my eyes.
I remember a girl from Louisiana, and sweet memories start to fill my mind.
A stranger to the magnolia and the weeping willow and the dark red clay
I couldnt help but see her golden soft skin against a passionette sky
I walked hand in hand with her down quiet easy lanes on warm sunny days.
I told her I couldnt stay and we held each other as long as we could, she never asked why.
And now when I hear the rain falling down on the soft summer grass
My heart is torn from the present and I yearn for that yesterday and her sweet kiss.
I wish just once I could taste again, what I knew would never last
The tender lips of the sweetest girl I can recall, her memory lingers in the garden mist.