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Stray Heart (Arizona)
03:22
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Flying south to Arizona
7 miles in the sky
Desert sands sprawl out below me
Follow the echo of the coyote's cry
Took off by the morning sunlight
With a fire that burns so like a curse
I hear the call of the Sonoran
Arid winds its song and verse
The voice that called out Arizona
In the valley, lay my bones
My restless heart will cease its wandering
When I finally get back home
In the land of the scorpion
Where the rattlers stake their claim
Between the ancient veins of turquoise
Lay the Earth that knows my name
The voice that called out Arizona
In the valley, lay my bones
My restless heart will cease its wandering
When I finally get back home
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Excommunication (Utah)
03:01
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Well it don't make much sense to me
Why a man shouldn't live his life in peace
On the trail...climbing blind
Making my way up to King's Peak, in my own time
Conversations with the stars
"Come on down and tell me how you are"
'Cause my only friends are in the sky
It'll be that way until I die
No more guarded secrets, clothes in white
No more ancient order, tell me how to live my life
Just me and the big sky--all alone
Me on my own two feet, nothing to atone
Conversations with the stars
"Come on down and tell me how you are"
'Cause my only friends are in the sky
It'll be that way until I die
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Pioneers (Colorado)
04:18
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Meet me at Le Poudre Pass
With your whole life set
Right there on your back
Where this lands is split by the divide
Is where we start
The newest part of our lives
By the bends of this great river
And over the plateaus
Starlit valleys and winter shivers
Wherever we will go
And the rapids that we're chasing
They lead us down the line
Through the Greater Rocky Mountains
With the Westerly Sun that shines
On you...and me
Onward now through the Grand Valley
Waving to the San Juan and The Elk
At the foot of the Great Mount Elbert
Anywhere with you, and nobody else
By the bends of this great river
And over the plateaus
Starlit valleys and winter shivers
Wherever we will go
And the rapids that we're chasing
They lead us down the line
Through the Greater Rocky Mountains
With the Westerly Sun that shines
On you...and me
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Rough livin' for me
Shots ringing through the trees
Man lives like a fable
Slips away quiet on the breeze
Wherever you may roam
You call the mountains your home
Live like a rumor on the lips of the valley
Like you got a life that ain't yr own
HIGH MOUNTAIN OUTLAW
DID THEY FORGET YOUR NAME?
OR WAS THE MARK YOU LEFT IN HISTORY WRIT WITH THE BLOOD YOU STAINED?
WHEN THE DUST HAS SETTLED:
WILL IT BE YOU WHO SHALL REMAIN?
OR WILL THE PASSAGE OF THE BULLET,
LEAVE YOUR LEGACY IN VAIN
Rough livin' for me
Shots ringing through the trees
Take my chances on a life on the run
Rather'n spendin' my life, livin' on my knees
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Bison Wallow (Wyoming)
02:50
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All the years gone by
Hangin' on like ghosts
On the manifest ride
Eyes on the coast.
Legacy of pride
And the annals of shame
How the legends have lied
Yet the spirit remains
Memories that would feed the land
Taken as a right by the arms of man
In the field where the bison roam no more
By the shadow of the Teton, reveling in gore
Not so deep:
The watering hole.
A place for beasts
To rest their bones.
Then the crack of the gun--
Mass sprawl of decay.
Then you see the holes
Dry and fade away.
Memories that would feed the land
Taken as a right by the arms of man
In the field where the bison roam no more
By the shadow of the Teton, reveling in gore
Memories that would feed the land
Taken as a right by the arms of man
In the field where the bison roam no more
By the shadow of the Teton, reveling in gore
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Song for Andrea (Nevada)
02:58
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Wish I could tell you just what you mean to me
That there was a way to put into words what you inspire me to be.
And the season's changing
Yeah it's moving fast
But whether in or whether in snow, you and me were built to last.
If I were a cowboy with a heart to mend:
I'd sing my song to you about the years we'd spend
Living out by the Truckee however we intend.
I may not be a cowboy, but we could just pretend.
Home means Nevada,
Home means the hills,
Home means the looks we share and
Home means the thrills.
In the Reno twilight I think just what a home could be
Nevada's just a state I live in
Cause you mean Home to me.
If I were a cowboy with a heart to mend:
I'd sing my song to you about the years we'd spend
Living out by the Truckee however we intend.
I may not be a cowboy, but we could just pretend.
Living out by the Truckee however we intend.
I may not be a cowboy, but we could just pretend.
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Horse Champ Tucson, Arizona
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