one old brown shoe falls in slow motion and the bedsprings hover right above your head as bed springs do when you re beneath them someone else just climbed into your bed by the time she thought you d probably got to phoenix she d arranged for your shoes to be filled well you ve got your pride and a blue steel 45 and you re waiting for the other shoe to fall you ll dig a double grave out in the meadow and you ll curse the rain that turns the dirt to mud you ll take i 35 south towards laredo then you ll try to find a doctor who can prescribe an elixir that ll make everything better except your late wife and her lover by the time she thought you d probably got to phoenix she d sealed her fate and gotten herself killed well you ve got your pride and a blue steel 45 and you re waiting for the other shoe to fall