The Gem And Mineral Show Lyrics

There I go blaming your drinking with a drink in my hand
And you blame my ambition while you try to start a band
All of the ways you're teaching me to feel my anger
Are lessons in camouflage
Smoking cigarettes and wearing Wranglers

I'll be at the Gem and Mineral Show
With the Queen of Americana, sipping champagne at the Chateau
You don't have to tell me, I already know
I am a tourist here, I come and I go

Sometimes I play with fire 'cause it helps me to calm down
So you drove me down the alleys of that dusty border town
To where they sell the candle with the firework inside
We lit one on the cliff about a month after she died

I'll be at the Gem and Mineral Show
With the Queen of Americana, sipping champagne at the Chateau
You don't have to tell me, I already know
I am a tourist here, I come and I go

When it's raining in Terlingua, I'm a new kind of woman
Dancing with tequila and ten thousand words for God
Howling at the cabin with the calcite and the cactus
A mile past the ghost town, acting like nothing's wrong

I'll be at the Gem and Mineral Show
With the Queen of Americana, sipping champagne at the Chateau
You don't have to tell me, I already know
I am a tourist here, I come and I go
I am a tourist here, I come and I go