There's a wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright Oh, what a night, this is be I think I'll let the world sleep me I got one eye open, one eye And my thin trembling beneath the bed clothes My hearts beatin' against the of my mouth It's time to get out of this house
I got one hand on the radio, one on the wheel I got my right foot on the floorboard, I'm preparing to or be killed
There's a high blowin' and the stars are shinin' bright And the rain upon the Helps me sail the traffic lights I'm down to the dock of the bay To the power of the waves I'm gonna move up to that wind Wrestle with the thoughts solitude brings
You see I'm between hell and the deep blue sea And I know that water's under better man than me I was another western guy With that couldn't be satisfied One day, I asked the angels for The devil me a drink He's been buying them since
He's had the liquor on my tongue, feel like the sea the sand He's had me signing confessions from this shakin' He's had me to hang onto hope a drunken sailor in a tugboat With a bottle of in my overcoat My dog Bible lost overboard
You see he tricked me temptation So I've tricked him into this I said I was the man I appeared to be Not the wrapped around the bones of necessity Or the soul on scribbling thoughts for posterity
I'm gonna little Lucifer runnin' off to purgatory With his between his legs I'm gonna teach him a lesson he ain't ever gonna All the and crows are fixin' up some tombstones won't be chewing the meat off my bones
There's a wind blowin' and the stars are shining bright Me and him are gonna have a knife fight In the bowels of the big city Oh, feelin' inside runs dark and deep Tonight my not thumping, a mercy beat
Yeah, I was just western guy With desires couldn't be satisfied Oh, what a night this is be The world sleep without me What a night is gonna be The world sleep without me What a night, this is be The will sleep without me, yeah