Fret Intro: (4X) In a town where you can sum up every girl with just one sentence Give or take the subject or the verb She shows up like the devil said penance Won't nothin' ever be clear no more (2X) She got hired on down at the Last Chance Diner She works all the same shifts as me I've never been one for too much conversation But now I choose my words so carefully 'Cause the angle of her cheek is the math of persuasion First time you saw the ocean, she's got tucked behind her knee She is swallowing lightning and she is spittin' thunder Waftin' California, reekin' Tennessee She is waftin' California and reekin' Tennessee Pre Chorus: