Sunset Man - James Otto

Sunset Man

(James Otto / Shannon Lawson / John Rich)

I used to wake up early every day

Just to feel the sunrise on my face

Me and my woman in the front porch swing

Listenin to the mornin mockingbird sing

Well I woke one day to a screen door slam

Found a good-bye note on our nightstand

Next to a coffee cup and a wedding band

Since then I ve been a sunset man

When I see the sunrise comin up

I draw the curtains down

Cause the mornin brings her memory around

I know it s warm and beautiful and lights up the sky

But these days it only hurts my eyes

I don t show my face to the afternoon

Anything A.M.

is just too soon

Cause it reminds how she up and ran

And damned me to be a sunset man

It s hard not to cry but I ll do my best

And just keep this ole chair facin west

Till she puts that ring back on her hand

I guess I ll always be a sunset man

Well I ll always be a sunset man

Yeah I ll always be a sunset man