Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the riders comin hard and he heard their mournful cries
Restless souls will put on their dancing shoes
Mindless ghouls with lots of limbs to lose
Illusionists, contortionist,
Tightrope - walkers thightening the noose
Horde of spiders, closet tentacles
Laughing harpies with their talons ripping
Sher-chrisss, per-vizz
The pendulum still sways for you
Such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner
Fallen mirrors, all kingdom in cinders
You’ve got a restless heart
Restless change is blowing through your life
Tears in your eyes
Tears in the books that I’ve been reading
I don’t understand you now, and I never did
But I still love your restless heart
The police came by here, but what had I to fear?
I let 'em in to take a look around,
But the longer they stayed, the more my nerves were frayed,
And then I heard that cotton-ticking sound.
Don’t find the heart, the telly taley heart,
'Cause that’s the only weakness to my plan,
And if you find the heart, the telly taley heart,
You’ll prob’ly figure out I killed the man.
All around in my home town
They’re trying to track me down.
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense.
I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.
Many a man would face his gun, and many a man would fall
The man who shot Liberty Valance
He shot Liberty Valance
He was the bravest of them all
He lay face down in the desert sand
Clutching his six-gun in his hand
Shot from behind, I thought he was dead
But under his heart was an ounce of lead
But a spark still burned so I used my knife
And late that night I saved the life of Ringo
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name
Cowboys don’t love Indians
Maybe they fight too well
They seem tough
But it’s just a bluff
Some things are hard to tell
And who is brave?
And who is strong?
You think you are
You could be wrong
Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold.
They’d rather give you a song than diamonds or gold.
Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis,
And each night begins a new day.
If you don’t understand him, and he don’t die young,
He’ll prob’ly just ride away.
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late
He was a desperado from the wild and woolly West,
He came into Chicago just to give the West a rest
He wore a big sombrero and a gun beneath his
And everywhere he went he gave his war whoop
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we’ll do the rest
And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
Westering home and a song in the air
Light in the eye and its goodbye to care
Laughter o’ love and a welcoming there
Isle o’ my heart my own one
Tell me o’ lands o’ the Orient gay
Speak o’ the riches and joys o’ Cathay
Aye but its grand to be wakin’ each day
To find yourself nearer to Islay
Who’ll make his mark, the captain cried,
To the devil drink a toast
We’ll glut the hold with cups of gold
And we’ll feed the sea with ghosts
I see your hunger for a fortune
Could be better served beneath my flag
If you’ve the stomach for a broadside
Come aboard my pretty boys
I will take you and make you
Everything you’ve ever dreamed
Make fast the guns, tonight we sail
When the high tide floods the bay
I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the Frisco Bay
Cuz I’ve had nothing to live for
And look like nothing’s gonna come my way
So, I’m just gon’ sit on the dock of the bay
Watchin’ the tide roll away, ooh
I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Wastin’ time
Then the tide rushes in
And washes my castles away.
Then I’m really not so sure
Which side of the bed I should lay
There is a lady all in white,
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch,
She says “Cosette, I love you very much.”
I know a place where no one’s lost,
I know a place where no one cries,
Crying at all is not allowed,
Not in my castle on a cloud.