she wanted to be a cowboy she was shootin' em down she was tramping around he walked in crooked with the clear blue eyes there's a nice pool in my motel you want to go for a swim that night he moved in the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love at night she'd wait for the sound of his feet on the doormat the sound of his hand on the doorknob the sound of her heart beating in her head he'd go out playing nickel slots cause he knew he'd lose she didn't know so she couldn't choose but one night while sleeping alone in her bed the phone rang she woke up and sat up and said what time is it what time is it well it's 5:30 here and it's 2:30 there and I won't be home tonight, he said the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love now she sits in a booth in a diner waiting for someone to take her order waiting for someone to come and sit down she rubs the smudge off the photograph puts it back in her purse the grey sky was romantic cause he was holding her hand he was her man the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love sometimes called falling in love she wanted to be a cowboy she was shootin' em down she was tramping around