Album: What the Toll Tells
Well I spent last night in Las Cruces Jail
Raining hail, born to fail
Nobody come for to go my bail
Sun, don't you rise no more
Well I shot one man on the county line
Took his dime and I blew his mind
Now I'm just sittin' here doin' time
Sun, don't you rise no more
Well a restless wind is whistling through the windows in my head,
Through all the scrapes that I've survived
And in my hour of darkness I keep counsel with the dead,
Just enough to remind me I'm alive
Well I write to the governor for to hear my plea
But he don't even answer me
The judge said he's gonna set my spirit free
Sun, don't you rise no more
Gavel fell, he chose the day,
Cattle tie, thirteenth of May
But I don't plan to go that way
Sun, don't you rise no more
Goodnight my Anda-Lucia
Don't buy all the lies that they feed ya
And though you're heading slowly to some place I can't respect,
I'll keep you in my collection of regrets
And that's twenty-one fell by my gun, oh, they all fell the same
Just need one more to match my age
Then I'll count my killin' done but I won't deny my name:
Quickest wrist of chaparral and sage
Now desperate times call for desperate men,
I'm just a kid but I'll pretend my time will come but until then,
Sun, don't you rise no more
Well I see that gallows altar, that circle 'round the Sun
They're gonna hang me if I stay here, and shoot me if I run
That jailer better watch his pride
Or off my wrists these shackles slide
Hear my restless fourty-five
Sun, don't you rise no more
Goodnight my Anda-Lucia
Don't buy all the lies that they feed ya
And though you're heading slowly to some place I can't respect,
I'll keep you in my collection of regrets
And down the highway, down the road, to infamy I'll ride
I'll take my pardon on the run,
With a trail of death behind me and Deluvina at my side,
Two silhouettes against the Sun
Well I spent last night in Las Cruces Jail
Raining hail, born to Fail
Nobody come for to go my bail
Sun, don't you rise no more