Eddie and a girl named June
Slow danced to an Elvis tune
Took the plunge after the hop
And wait for one more shoe to drop
Eddie got his hair slicked back
And his t-shirt bares a pack
Of butts that all went up in smoke
With ands and ifs and vows she broke
Maybe it's the scent of her perfume
On the long dried tracks of some tears
Maybe time can run like a rabbit
But his heart can hide from them Hound Dog Years
June meets someone some time later
Files her nails and files the paper
Eddie signs in black and blue
With the ink from his tattoo
Maybe it's the scent of her perfume
On the long dried tracks of some tears
Maybe time can run like a rabbit
But his heart can hide them Hound Dog Years
Hot nights, bourbon and Elvis
Headlights and banging them gears
That Chevy ran like a rabbit
But it never got away from them Hound Dog Years
Eddie kept those years inside
But on the day that Elvis died
Drove to Memphis all alone
To gaze upon the empty throne
Standin there, the past overtook him
Standin there with his memories and fears
It grabbed Eddie's idle and it shook him
Like a rabbit in the teeth of them Hound Dog Years
Eddie got a brand new life now
He never tells his second wife how
Those memories come to haunt him still
And she knows that he never will
Maybe it's the scent of her perfume
On the long dried tracks of some tears
Maybe time can run like a rabbit
But his heart can hide them Hound Dog Years
Maybe it's the scent of her perfume
On the long dried tracks of some tears
Maybe time can run like a rabbit
But he'll never get away from them Hound Dog Years