Christabel Robert Earl Keen

[Verse 1]
It's been seven long days and seven hard nights
In a '62 Chevy with broke taillights
An east-bound man in a west-bound lane
A dishwater blonde about sixteen
Was standing on the shoulder with a ribbon in her hair
Her hand on her hip and her thumb in the air
And I pulled off the road and as she grabbed for the door
I knew the wind was cold 'cause I'd seen it all before
And I was scared

[Refrain]
Things ain't never what they seem
When you find you livin' in your own dream

[Verse 2]
Now the moonlight peeked in and out behind the clouds
Now and again on this godless child
And the radio was scrambed, cracklin' in the air
The ribbon she wore looked old in her hair
And I saw the moonlight sliver dead down on her face
I knew it was true, she was in the wrong place
In the wrong time, in the wrong tale
I knew when I'd asked her she'd hiss, "Christabel"

[Refrain]
Things ain't never what they seem
When you find you livin' in your own dream