The sheriff was a lucky man Or at least he’d been so far It was the only way he’d lived so long In a badlands town like ours He came here from a better place Out east beyond the range He had a good and godly soul But one night that all changed Back then, Old Nick was robbing banks All up and down the line His desperadoes hadn’t found us yet But it was just a matter of time So when a band of men on coal-black horses Came to town The sheriff and his posse sprung a trap And circled ‘em ‘round “Now, we don’t want any trouble Nick,” The goodly sheriff said “If you turn around and leave right now, I won’t have to shoot you dead” Old Nick laughed when we drew our guns his men didn’t even flinch His big dog let out a mournful howl And it sounded something like this (C, ad lib) Their eyes locked ‘cross the dusty square Yellow on bright blue My pistol grip was slick with sweat So my aim wasn’t quite true Still, I’m sure before all hell broke loose I put a round or two in Nick Then the horses’s hooves stirred up the dirt And the haze became too thick I fired off a few more shots Before an eerie silence fell And I thought I saw two glowing eyes Like two candles lit in hell When the dust finally settled down I couldn’t believe my eyes Old Nick and all his men stood there Unhurt and still alive The posse all lay on the ground with holes shot through their chests Except the sheriff with his silver star still shining on his vest When Old Nick saw him standing there, He gave an evil hiss He said “Follow me, if you dare, and we’ll put an end to this!” Nick led his men back down the street And then back out of town The sheriff and I mounted up So we could ride ‘em down We chased ‘em ‘cross the darkening plains Into the setting sun I rode behind the shining star One bullet in my gun When the desperadoes rode up on a train We followed suit The sheriff was determined to end He and Nick’s dispute In the last dregs of the dying light We climbed aboard the train Its sides were black, its boiler steamed, Its lonely whistle sang (C) We stepped inside of the caboose And I saw Nick up ahead Grinning back at both of us Surrounded by the dead He beckoned for us to follow As he pressed on through the train And we passed out of the world of men Into the world of Cain On that ghost train I saw devils Of every shape and size Some were playing faro, and some were playing dice There were skeletons in Stetsons And decomposed ranch hands All dancing to the ghoulish song Of a dead mariachi band (Instrumental) As we traveled on I noticed The sheriff’s star began to dim It was harder to see through the dark Separating me and him Then all at once he disappeared Behind a door of flame It was then that I began to see The truth of Old Nick’s game From behind the door I heard a shot And then a human scream Then everything slowed down Like I was stuck inside a dream I busted through the door to find The silver star was gone There were now two pairs of yellow eyes Where there had once been one I lost all hope when I saw the thing That used to be a man And as I looked into its yellow eyes I began to understand If I wanted to escape Old Nick And set my own soul free I only had one chance left My last bullet was for me Now some folks say the sheriff And Nick shot each other down Others say he took his silver star To a better town But he’s just another lost soul Serving on the devil’s train And sometimes I still hear its whistle Howling across the range (C) So that’s the story of a good and godly man And how he fell Lost his silver star and ended up On the 3:10 out of hell So if you ever think you’re proof against Old Nick and all his friends Remember how our lucky sheriff Met his evil end

Somewhere on the highway Near the Washington state line Is a rest stop haunted by the ghost of What I left behind You didn’t meant to hurt me I didn’t have a choice But when I drive by with the windows down I still hear your voice, singing… (ad lib) Every love that dies Lies in a shallow grave And the things that won’t stay buried make it Hard to turn the page So I push the pedal down Till I’m going way too fast Even at ninety miles an hour though I can’t outrun the past (C) Ghosts in my head Ghosts of the highway Ghosts in my head Ghosts of the highway We crossed a continent together From the east into the west And everywhere between our love’s Remains are laid to rest Every time I find a new way And I think I’m moving on I end up on another road That’s haunted by your song (ad lib) I’ve met another girl But every time I say her name I worry that her love will end up Buried just the same I wonder where you are tonight I look up at the sky I hope that you don’t think of me And aren’t still haunted by… (C)

The sun is coming The birds are singing And me, I’m thinking of old beginnings I wish I could Turn back time To when you were mine And I was yours And we weren’t split by all these wars Who is wrong and who is right? Does it matter enough that fight after fight Is justified? Just as all the tears are dried, watch our lives divide As if tearing down can build up, but it can’t Ohhh, but it can’t, fear at work will show you that

Please, don’t let me go You’re my heart, you know A child without a name A ghost without a grave Where is my home without you? Please, don’t let me go I’ve filled my heart with snow Stars without the night A left without a right A chorus without the verse A life lived in reverse I have no home without you All these years, I hid my tears Afraid to let me feelings show But now, I fear the end is near We’ll go our separate ways...and you’ll never know Please don’t let me go Please don’t let me go

I think the enemy probably starts with me What I choose not to be keeps me from being free A kid’s dreams collide Head on with the world outside And something in my heart died When I stood aside You see, I’m not who you think I am The guy you think you love is a joke (C) Made up from fear of honesty ‘Cause if you knew the real me You wouldn’t want me and you wouldn’t love me (?) But at least I would be free…and lonely Free...and lonely Had an idea of you Turns out now it wasn’t true A lot of things I wanted fell through You’re not the girl I thought I knew Is it my fault I can’t adjust? Am I just hurting both of us? Do I just need to learn to trust These feelings I let turn to rust? Or is it time to break? And is there someone else I can take? And would you find a way to be happy Apart from the mess you thought was me? (C)

Blackbird girl, you spread your wings And flew away one gray morning I watched you go from down below Until you disappeared, free and alone (C) Blackbird girl, I couldn’t blame you When you left behind the nothing that everything came to Now you’ve got another life Another man, and you’re another wife In another nest, you’re moving on But I still sing this blackbird song (C) Late at night, the ghosts all roam Around this house we used to own And though you’ve flown, you left a part Of our old (dead) love, in my haunted heart (C) x 2

Rose and Chris, they loved the road And loved the mountains more But they loved each other the most Then came the storm Chris was out on the trail alone When the world turned black Rose gave Chris to the mountains The mountains didn’t give him back (C) There was ice on the mountain Fire in the sky Wind in the valley Tears in her eyes Em and Jack got married Then they moved into town Jack had never liked the city He didn’t trust the crowd But Emily had a good job So that’s where they stayed And when the car swerved into her lane It was Em who paid (C) I remember how you used to smile How your eyes would shine How you said I would always be yours And you would always be mine But always, it has gone away Flow and ebb, like the waves Remember me with a smile, my dear When you visit my grave (C)

Underneath the moon’s decaying arc I feel the beat of someone else’s heart Ankle-wet in the gloaming of the night We’re both scared, but part of it’s alright The waterway, it carries, carries you And when I let go, it’ll carry, carry me, too We’ll slide along like salmon in the lunar glow The dizziness of a falling and a letting-go (Instrumental) We pass beneath the forest’s boughs (arms/limbs) until we reach a dell A moonstruck meadow held by nighttime’s spell I lay down my blanket on the dewy grass And when you first take my hand, I know the spell’s been cast The sky’s impaled on a greatsword (broadsword/sword that’s) forged of sharpened stars The silver light of Venus is outshining Mars Underneath her light we do as lovers do When I first touch your face, I feel I always knew (?) (Instrumental) As the moon goes down, your face begins to fade But when the sun comes up, I know your love has stayed Now they say I’m a liar and they don’t believe But I can’t forget how we first met on midsummer’s eve (Instrumental)

Sea and sand Diamond hand Reaching out Reaching down Reaching up Stretching out From the mud Hands of blood (C) But you’re not the one I see now No you’re not the one I see (Let me go, let me go) I don’t want to watch another one die I don’t want to watch it all turn to dust I wish we could see through it all But choose we will, for choose we must (C) Desert wind Desert heart Tears won’t fall Tears don’t fall Crystal night Sun asleep Diamond stars Stomping feet (C) I used to think that you weren’t real And we thought all we think we feel Tell me why, why are we here Our only God is our own fear (C)

There once was a boy Who left home to find The land of his dreams Where the people were kind He walked forty days He walked forty nights He passed through a maze Of earthly delights In the heart of that land He heard a voice It spoke like the thunder And it left him no choice It said “The answers you seek Can’t be found down below You must climb yonder peak To learn what I know” So from the foot of the mountain The boy started to climb But the sky turned coal-black And he lost all sense of time Was it a night or a day? The rain started to fall Valleys turned into graves The flood buried it all As the boy neared the summit The rain turned into snow The thunder was rolling And the wind began to blow He felt the death-cold Like a knife in his chest He willed his knees not to fold So he could finish his quest At the top of the peak A lonely pine held its ground While off in the distance The sea rose all around And the young boy wept It seemed the thunder had lied He’d learned nothing except What it feels like to die His life ebbing away Nothing left but his name The boy saw through his tears As the tree burst into flame The fire heating his bones The boy lay down his head And though he was alone The thunder’s voice said (C) Fire and rain have come around again Darkness from the light Love and pain both must have an end So that new life can rise There once was a girl Who returned home to find The land that she loved And that she’d left behind Five years ago She’d thought she knew what was best She’d felt the call of the road Like a bird in her chest So on a bright summer day She took to the sky And let the wings of her heart Teach her how to fly But from the Chinese wall To the hilltops of Rome She loved nothing she saw Like the forests of home So her heart flew her back And she returned to her trees She nodded off by a lake Rocked to sleep by the breeze But sweet dreams turned to dread When she awoke To find the sky glowed hell-red And her lungs full of smoke The fire raged all around She heard it eating her trees The death-wail of the forest Drove her to her knees She knew she had to go Before her courage could break So as the ash fell like snow She crawled to the lake In water up to her waist In the heart of the blaze She watched her world burn Black tears dried on her face Because she knew what we’d done We’d taken nature for granted We’d loaded the gun By taking more than we’d planted And now the bill had come due A price we couldn’t pay We’d traded all our tomorrows For one golden today The girl took a deep breath The flames roared overhead As she dove down to the depths The fire’s voice said (C) There once was a man Who couldn’t find A way out of the maze His life had made of his mind Back when he was a boy He’d built the first wall A fight over a toy Beaten up for a ball So he learned early on To hide his feelings away To never show weakness To never have much to say He sat alone at his school He couldn’t make any friends At home his brothers were cruel He wondered when it would end As the years passed him by His walls grew taller and taller All alone in his maze His life shrank smaller and smaller He spent his weeks on the phone His cubicle like a cell His coworkers all drones Forty hours of hell He burned up his weekends Working alone night and day On books no one would read On songs he’d never play Women came and they went But love passed him by His heart was too bent His walls were too high One day the walls grew so high That they blocked out the sun And his heart grew as cold as The steel of a gun He felt trapped in his maze With no way to escape From the march of his days A cycle that wouldn’t break But maybe there was a way And end to this life He watched his reflection In the blade of a knife And as he studied the blade He heard a voice “Is this an end or beginning? You must make your own choice” (C)