New West Motel

Deaf as a fence post
Alone on a winter's night
I'm drunk as a racehorse
But i'll never fade outta sight

There's a wild below me
A wild up there in the stars
There's a history behind me
A child gone cold in my arms

Tell george and tammy
I'm ripe for the taking these days
It's a good year for roses
(and) a bad year for runnin' in place

But if they don't believe me
I'll do what i always have done
I won't be the sundowner
No i'll never cheat on the sun

'cause when the sun comes up
And the moon is gone
To the bridge i go
To the bridge i run

And when i reach the edge
Onto the bridge i crawl
And when i find you my friend
From the bridge i fall

This is the last place
That i've ever been, ever been
It's the last best place
That i've ever been, ever been

And in spite of my weakness
And all my desires to win
I won't be the sundowner
Tomorrow i'll leave here again

'cause when the sun comes up
And i need a friend
To the bridge i run
When i need a friend

And when i meet the edge
Onto the bridge i crawl
And when i find you my friend
It's from the bridge i fall

Jack candy was as old as my father
But still i took a likin' to him
He said: "you will be somebody's treasure,
But no one has discovered you yet."

Jack candy lived on sky valley road
And that's where he did business i guess
Some say he sold a suitcase of cocaine
But he never showed me any of that

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town
About the day i lost: jack candy

I was walkin' up to jack candy's trailer
When he shouted that i('d) better head home
The curtains closed as he went back inside
And i trembled 'cause he wasn't alone

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town
About the day i lost: jack candy

Some say they took him out to a clearin'
And made him crawl until he confessed
Some say they hung him up by his bootstraps
Some say they let him swing in the wind

I walked along (the) sky valley road
And out onto the great northern bridge
And for hours i stared into the cold
Sick and tired of denying i loved him

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town x2

I've lived a lie and i have lived it well
This is the story that i've prayed to tell
About a love and how i let him down
About the day i lost: jack candy

Mr. ten dollar man
Let me tell you where you're bound
When you drink your green liquor
Lord, you'll roll to the ground

But you come around here
With your money in your hand
Tasted my woman
You'll die where you stand

Snake mountain's gonna crumble
Lord, and fall from the sky
'til that woman of mine
Keeps on telling her lies

If i'd die lord, she'd weep
And she'd weep and she'd mourne
As soon as i was buried
Forget i been born

Well my daddy, he rides on a long holy train
And the first winds of winter
Well, i'll see him again

And it's goodbye to that yellow-headed misery i've known
Snake mountain is callin'
Is callin' me home

Got the snake mountain blues x4

Got the snake mountain blues x4

*[one verse of the original is left out.
It goes something like this:

Well the snake mountain blues
Have got me down low
I could die in the morning
And no one would know
Well, my woman comes 'round
My body she'd found
Go down to dundee
(and) have her a time]

I'll break the jackpot open
In a wondertown, wondertown
I'll break the jackpot open
In a wondertown, wondertown
With my hands of ivory
And my nerves of steel
I'll break the jackpot open
Just to prove it's real
I'll break the jackpot open
In a wondertown, wondertown

In this town
The blood will make you rich
Yeah, in this town
The blood will make you rich

In this town
I will do you one better
I'll change the truth
When i change the weather

In this town
The blood will make you rich

And when you're down
You can buy the jesus pose
'cause in this town
All roads lead to this

And when you're down
I will kill it again
I'll give ya something
To forget about him

In this town
All roads lead to this

And come tonight, yeah come tonight
We'll take a ride
And come tonight, yeah come tonight
We'll see the lights

You will lead and i will follow
You will lead me, down to the hollow
You will lead me down
Grand theft auto
You will lead me down

In this town
We have got the midas touch
Yeah in this town
The gold will make you blush
Some of it's cooling
And some of it's glitters
All of it's cold
And it gives me the shivers

In this town we've got the midas touch

And come tonight, yeah come tonight
We'll take a ride
And come tonight, yeah come tonight
We'll see the lights

You will lead and i will follow
You will lead me, down to the hollow
You will lead me down
Grand theft auto
You will lead me down

Quick, burn it down to the wick
Burn it down to the heart
So the ending can start

Here, behind the riverhaus door
With an unloaded gun
And an unsettled score

Well i'll never drag this river
I'll never drag this river x2
I'll never drag this river down

You, nothin' comes to you slow
Nothin' comes to you hard
Though you beg like you're hard

And me, don't shake the barrel ar me
And don't treat idle threats
Like you treat all your friends

Well i'll never drag this river
I'll never drag this river x2
I'll never drag this river down

And if you walk out that door
Don't come back
Because there'll be no door

And if you walk out that door
Silence greets you
Silence, will be yours

I hear ya callin' from a long distant shore
But you won't come back, [well / 'cause] you can't come back

The water's risin' and the levee is not sure
And you won't be found, no you can't be found

Drag this river down

These are the ghosts that i half believed
Guns & liquor & the carnival freak
But then one day the whole world shook
And i got arrested for stealin' a look

And the glad nation's death song sings x2
And i wanna hear you sing
And i wanna hear you . . . . hear you sing

Well they dragged me down to the deptor's jail
Where no one cried 'cause the drinks were free
And there i met you, you were passin' the hat
Sayin' give to the memory of a long gone dream

And the glad nation's death song sings x2
And i wanna hear you sing
And i wanna hear you . . . . hear you sing

This is the sound of one hand clappin'
This is the sound of one man laughin'
Sayin' we are lucky, yeah lucky is us
'cause behind these bars we've been stuck

And the glad nation's death song sings x4
And i wanna hear you sing
And i wanna hear you . . . . hear you sing