would you light a candle for me babe even though i have done done you wrong if i called you up around midnight would you pray with me on the phone i recall the winters we weathered i felt your heart beat with mine you pulled me so deeply inside you our bodies so sweetly entwined you know it hurt me to hurt you but i felt my deal goin down now i m hung in the hooks of the highway i m gone and i can t turn around these devils out here done took me cause they know that i s a good hearted man it s too late to pray for my life now but my soul can be saved by your hands would you light a candle for me babe and don t snuff it out til the dawn when that gamey stops his crowin my soul ll come winging back home like a deaf man gazin sadly at a blind man singin his song there s a world of difference between us but the grace of god makes us one would you light a candle for me babe 