I saw roses choking in the grass flaking paint In a broken window pane A mailbox barely standin' by the driveway I can almost read the name A swing set and forgotten toys Where little girls and boys played happy games Everything I ever care about is gone now But all the memories still remain The old man from the house across the street asked How's it goin' and I said fine But the expression on his face would make me think That he could almost read my mind That little Johnson boy from down the road Was asking if the kids could come and play Lord I wish I could have told them yes But I just said I guess son not today I just came home to count the memories That I've been carrying in my mind I just came home to count the memories Of a better day and time And all the birds that sang a pretty song They aren't singing like they did when we were here 'Cause there's no happiness in music When somebody isn't close enough to care I picked a raged daisy from its home Out in the corner of the yard She loves me, she loves me not Now I don't have to wonder anymore I just came home to count the memories That I've been counting in my mind I just came home to count the memories I guess it's time to say goodbye

Baby came home today Told me to stay away She told me her man was afraid Told me I better behave Baby just came back around Told me she's leaving this town Said she needs time to explore She said I can't love her no more Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know... So baby packed up all she had Promised to never come back She left me alone and without Skin I can study about Tiles get colder to touch Wood splinters, metal will rust But baby she had all my trust And I guess that was never enough Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know She's mine (Whoa, oh oh. You know that she's mine, ooh) (Baby came home today) (Told me to stay away) (Told me her man was afraid) (Told me I better behave) (Oh, you know that I'm) Thinking about her She's gone all the time I think if you found her That even you would know She's mine, she's mine That girl is mine, she's mine, oh

Alone Anna wanders, ponders and thinks How love and sin can be dangerous things And how silver linings are what lightning brings As she stares through the window and sings You left that night, you were going to tell her How dead leaves to dust was us leaving together Yet still I'm here waiting for a sign or a letter In this house of cold wood and stone Since you never came home Oh you left that night, you were going to tell her How wrong you had been, in the fall you were better Yet still I'm here waiting for a sign or a letter In this house of cold wood and stone Since you never came home On the night that I still can't forget You said that you can't change what you don't regret You told me you loved me and I felt that you meant it And I waited here all night long But you never came home Since you never came home

Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just a rifle and his mule Well seven years of toiling with nothing to show but sand Can you come up from the ground with a nugget in his hand The way he whooped and hollered the birds flew from the trees And he was loaded up in three days time his true love bound to see Hadn't made it a dozen miles when hoof beats met his ears and He urged his mule faster as the bandits drew near He came upon a valley where a lonesome cabin stood If he could hold them there till morning He could hold them there for good They broke through the brambles, five fires flickered red Two shots broke the darkness and the first of them fell dead They rushed the door and took it down caught the first one with His knife And he pinned him to the door frame, the sunset in his eyes He was wilder than a rattlesnake and cold as the snow He hung them up and bled them out and left him for the crows Jeremiah Colter was the biggest man in town He'd swing that hammer overhead and bring that mountain down First light to the darkness hounding for gold Sleep beside the fire with just his rifle and his mule

Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie she's the prettiest girl in town All the boys try to court her but she always turns them down She swoops like a swallow and she's dancing in the barn With her head up in the rafters and her feet Pounding on the boards Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie slips out late at night Goes waltzing by the river with the stars in her eyes You'd chance her for a phantom if you saw her on the banks Oh Maggie mine in a white lace dress where the wild river sings Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie sitting in the tallest tree Smoking on a cigarette yeah she has no time for me She's further than the forest when I'm standing in the field And all the prairie ghosts are crying because they know Just how I feel Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie she's a wildflower everybody knows You can't pick her you can't plant her You can't tell her where to grow Oh Maggie Maggie Maggie she's the prettiest girl in town All the boys try to court her but she always turns them down She swoops like a swallow when she's dancing in the barn With her head up in the rafters in her feet pounding on the boards

And I found her there beneath that willow tree And I said, "Oh my darling, won't you come with me?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, I can't go with you I'm pledged to another by mother Though our love ain't true" He said, "What if I took your hand And I led you 'cross the sea? Then would you forget 'bout him? Would you marry me?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, that just cannot be If you flee across the ocean blue You'll shame my family" He said, "What if I took a knife And I put it in his chest? Then would you believe me darlin' That I love you best?" And she said, "No, Charlie boy, that jus' wouldn't do If you put a knife in his chest The law'll be after you" So I see her standing up there in a white lace dress And the priest cries out, "Does anyone protest?" And they said, "No, Charlie boy, sit back in your pew She's marrying another man There's nothing you can do" And I guess I couldn't take it And I just saw red And I pulled my pistol off my hip And I shot him in the head And they said, "No, Charlie boy What the hell'd you do? You killed him on his wedding night The hangman'll have you soon" So I'm rotting here in this city cell And by tomorrow morning I'll be wasting in hell And they said, "Oh, Charlie boy Look how far you've fell She never even loved you, and now she never will"

There's a wild wind that blows across the desert She's got teeth like razors she could tear through a man You could give her your heart but she'll never love you And she'll send you back to your mama again And there's a gambling hall just outside the city I used to frequent there when I was passing through There's a girl there I've never seen such beauty As I sit alone at my table for two I said oh love of mine You weren't what I had in mind When I closed my eyes There's a bar I really like within a ghost town The owner says it's never stood so still Because the company came and they closed all them miles down And everyone went running for the hills Some nights I can't sleep for the darkness Creeps into my room from all the cracks and seams And it scares me to hell and back again As I lay awake and I try not to scream I said oh love of mine You weren't what I had in mind When I closed my eyes I said oh love of mine You weren't what I had in mind When I closed my eyes When I closed my eyes

Well I gambled my last dollar on a girl in a sequin dress I was just outside of Philly trying to thumb my way back west In a dirty bathroom mirror, I tried to cut myself off I was always all or nothing and my courage keeps getting lost All the words you said to me came back on the drive Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you I keep waking up with cold sweats they've been tearin' me at my seams I wish missing you was easier than you've been missing me All the anger in my bloodline had me going for my knife I felt guilty I felt crazy I cried the rest of the night Every time I turn around I see the look in your eyes Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you oh You could call me in the morning just to see if I'm all right You could tell me that you love me even if I know it's a lie I'll keep driving in the direction my home used to be But it's just a worn out picture dancing like a faded magazine And every time I look inside feel like I'm losing my mind Couldn't bear to bring myself inside because I'm barely alive Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you Oh darling mine oh I'm going to make it back to you I'm going to make it back to you oh

And you can run for the hills You can run for the hills But I'll catch you You can't run from me And I'm gonna bring you back in chains Oh, I'm gonna bring you back in chains And hang you from the hanging tree 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun Me And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" But my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor Well, I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil They say you killed ten men They say you killed ten men But I don't Well, I don't give a damn And I hear you're mean as hell Well, I hear you're mean as hell But I'm sure you've heard Well, I'm pretty mean as well 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" And then my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil Yeah, when the sun breaks the sky When the sun breaks the sky Oh, you'll draw your final breath 'Cause you can run, boy But can't outrun The death Yeah, you can run, boy But you can't outrun The death And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, let me go!" And he cried, "Mercy, mercy, save my soul!" And then my gun went bang, bang, bang! And he hit the floor I think he's there still 'Cause you can run, boy But you can't outrun The devil