[Verse]

I stumbled down the neon mile

Shoes untied

Saw a queen with a crooked smile

Eyes wild

She whispered low like a broken string

Said

"Boy

You don’t know a damn thing"

[Chorus]

It's the honky tonk dreamin'

Where the lights don't fade

Where the jukebox screams and the deals get made

Gimme

Gimme

Gimme that midnight tune

Let it howl like a wolf under a Memphis moon

[Verse 2]

Whiskey’s my preacher

My sins on the bar

Her laugh hit me harder than a steel guitar

She spun me round till the night went blind

And left her lipstick on my scrambled mind

[Bridge]

Broken hearts and cigarette haze

This is where the lost come to blaze

Every story here’s a little untrue

But the honky tonk women

They know what to do

[Chorus]

It's the honky tonk dreamin'

Where the lights don't fade

Where the jukebox screams and the deals get made

Gimme

Gimme

Gimme that midnight tune

Let it howl like a wolf under a Memphis moon

[Outro]

So pour me another

Let the clock unwind

I'll keep chasing shadows I may never find

The honky tonk blues

They're my worn-out shoes

And they’re singing louder than my Sunday truths