She got the job in LA And there's so much that he had to say Still only silence Then the moment slipped away She took the red eye out of Baltimore And the irony is hard to ignore Life's full of goodbyes To the ones we're living for And she calls to say hello Every now and then And in between he does the best he can If she's happy he'll survive But it's cold here When the sun goes down He drives a cab in DC Trying t make ends meet He says he still misses her As regret rolls down his cheek Then he turns on my street And she calls to say hello Every now and then And in between he does the best he can If she's happy he'll survive But it's lonely When the sun goes down When the sun goes down She'll leave a message on the phone every father's day And for a while it helps to ease the pain He'll pray to Jesus now and then and keep hoping 'Till the sun goes down And someone calls to say hello every now and then And in between we do the best we can We keep believing through the fog That we'll see clear When the sun goes down When the sun goes down When the sun goes down She got the job in LA