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You wake to rain one early morning |
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you’ve waited for since you were born. |
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Little boy blue come blow your horn |
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that westbound train, it leaves at dawn. |
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And you kiss your mama’s cheek goodbye, |
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She’s got all her days to wonder why |
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you were her one and only son to ride on. |
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You wandered west and joined a crew |
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to do the work you were born to do. |
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But the golden plains were ruled by a feud, |
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guns were drawn and the bullets flew. |
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When you found his broken body dead |
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There were just two words inside your head, |
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“Grab that gun, cause the war is on and ride on.” |
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Ten thousand wild horses ridingdown on you, |
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ridin’ down on you. |
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Ten thousand wild horses ridingdown on you, |
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ridin’ down on you. |
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No sacred cow could save you now, so ride on. |
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You lost your love, your only friend |
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won to the gun of a hired hand. |
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Spilled his blood and took his land |
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make a lump of meat out of a man. |
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Now a blackbird sings a lullabye, |
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“Goodnight, goodnight, it’s time to fly,” |
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You stand alone, no love no home and ride on. |
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Soon you were parched no sign of rain, |
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Joshua took you underwing. |
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His outstretched arm a beckoning |
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led you to a place of green. |
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In a hospital of slot machines |
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the drugs too thick for you to dream. |
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Go lay your bread on lucky seven red and ride on. |
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Ten thousand white shooting stars shining |
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down on you, shining down on you |
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Ten thousand white shooting stars falling |
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down on you, falling down on you |
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say goodbye to the unlucky ones and ride on. |
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Too tired to run, too scared to stop |
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You learned to love or so she thought. |
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But you left her bleeding heart to rot, |
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with her crown of thorns and forget-me-nots. |
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Now she sees you in the wayward smile |
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and the wandering eye of your unknown child, |
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Soon he’ll have to walk that crooked mile and ride on. |
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Ten thousand white shooting stars falling |
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down on you, falling down on you |
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Ten thousand white shooting stars falling |
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down on you, falling down on you |
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say goodbye to the unlucky ones and ride on. |
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We make the trade the day we’re born: |
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a mouthful for a bit of soul. |
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But you took that much too hard you know |
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and runnin’ for your life made you grow old. |
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And that morning rain turned dust to mud, |
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You gained an open road for your flesh and blood, |
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Now there’s no one left for you to love, so ride on. |
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When angels fall it looks like snow, |
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Their wings are torn from where they grow. |
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You laid yours in a leather case, |
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a souvenir of your disgrace. |
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When you think from all the things you’ve run, |
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you wonder whether you’ve lost or won, |
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why you were her one and only son to ride on. |
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