There's a high wind blowin, & the stars are shining bright,

Oh what a night, this is gonna be--

I think i'll let the world sleep without me.

I got one eye open, one eye closed.

& my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes,

My hearts beatin' against the roof of my mouth

--it's almost time to get out of this house.



I got one hand on the radio, one hand on the wheel,

I got my right foot on the floorboard,--

& i'm preparing to kill or be killed.



There's a high wind blowin', & the stars are shining bright.

& the rain upon the tarmac,

--helps me sail through the traffic lights,

I'm heading down to the dock of the bay,

--to feel the power of the waves,

I'm gonna move up close to that wind,

& wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings.



Y'see i'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea,

& i know that water's sucked under better man than me,

I was just another western guy,

--with desires that couldn't be satisfied,

So one day, i asked the angels for inspiration,

--but the devil bought me a drink,

& he's been buying them ever since,

He's had the liquor on my tongue

--feel like the sea upon the sand,

He's had me signing confessions

--from this shaking hand,

He's had me struggling to hang onto hope--

Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat

With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat,

& my dog eared bible lost--overboard



Y'see he tricked me into temptation,

So i've tricked him into this confrontation,

I never said i was the man i appeared to be

Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity.

Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity.



I'm gonna have little lucifer, runnin' off to purgatory,

--with his tail between his legs,

I'm gonna teach him a lesson

--he ain't ever gonna forget.

All the vultures & crows are fixin up some tombstones

But they won't be chewing the meat off my bones.



There's a high wind blowin' & the stars are shining bright.

Me & him are gonna have a little knife fight,

--in the bowels of the big city skyline,

Oh this feelin' inside runs dark & deep

--tonight my hearts not thumping

--a mercy beat





I was just another western guy,

With desires that couldn't be--satisfied.














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