Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning
  As he struggles with an old dream all night long
  And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him
  She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone
  
  Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning
  She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song
  She watches as he takes, his old saddle from the wall
  A sudden chill runs through her in the cold of the not quite dawn
  
  Chorus:
  She's losing him, to the rodeo wind
  That blows through his soul, when the summer begins
  When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again
  But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind
  
  One sure way to lose him
  Is to try and make him stay
  He can't explain he don't even know himself
  But the force that drew her to him
  Has just gotta break away
  And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel
  Is the only thing that helps
  
  Bridge:
  Now it all makes sense, those signs she's been seeing all along
  She feels like such a fool, a woman ought to know
  Just the other day, she saw him sittin' on the south fence
  Throwing stones at prairie dogs, and staring down the road
  
  Chorus