American Remains - The Highwaymen

Oh, I see you in your cobra nest All dressed up in your Sunday best In the opal morning light See your gun there shining bright Shining bright Now the storm is on its way Coming here to break the day Steaming rain Oh, you go shoot me down Take my halo, yoke and crown Yoke and crown 'Cause I've been to the darkest place I know You, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below It's just bones Now you go softly soft Picking out better bones than your own Oh, I see you creep in the dark Sticking pins into the rain To wash away I've been to the only place I know It's just bones So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below It's just bones Just bones Bones, bones, bones, bones, bones Bones, bones, bones, bones, bones Bones, bones, bones, bones, bones So how can love bare to see you, bare to see you go alone? Black and blue,this beating heart's got the same blood As your own, as your own So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below It's just bones And I've been to the darkest place you know It's just bones Bones, bones, bones, bones Bones, bones, bones, bones

Da-da-da-da-da (Mmm-da-da-da) Da-da-da-da-da (Mmm-da-da-da) Da-da-da-da-da (Mmm-da-da-da) Da-da-da-da-da I was staring every night at the top of the moon Hoping that one day it'd bring me closer to You And You will come with open arms Even though I was far away And You taught me such things, like joy is something you choose I was a girl in the window, wrapped up in blues You said, "Start running towards Me" I said, "I'm scared, but I'll trust in You" The stars alone Are Your works of art Undiscovered colors that show us who You are And as I stood there in awe of everything You've made I heard You whisper to me and say "Look how My love remains" Look how My love remains Look how My love remains Look how My love remains And You lifted my love, chained and burdened no more I was a witness to grace, and resilience I wore I owe it all to You, God I'm Yours forevermore And then You silenced my fears and I stood up to dance They were all so confused given my circumstance I knew I couldn't explain it But I gave it another chance The stars alone Are Your works of art Undiscovered colors that show us who You are And as I stood there in awe of everything You've made I heard You whisper to me and say "Look how My love remains" Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) The stars alone Are Your works of art Undiscovered colors that show us who You are And as I stood there in awe of everything You've made I heard You whisper to me and say "Look how My love remains" Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains) Look how My love remains (My love remains)

Condemned in the chapel, people their confide Blind and superstitious, awaiting tyrannicide Holy father ravaged, innocent is cursed Hell awaits him now, victim of bloodthirst Woman engulfed in flames, fiend blasphemy Children to the slaughter, relentless massacre Inverted are the crosses, vermin now emerge Total are their losses, burning holy church Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains Continuing nightmare, horrid mayhem feast Crucifixial rupture, in honour of the beast Chapel deterioration, congregation of denial Abomination of the perish, power of belial Carcass steaming gas, intestinal poison stench Repellant rigor mortis, nausea gutwrench Mutilated limbs, rancid gore and lard Excruciating view, this open air graveyard Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains Condemned in the chapel, people their confide Blind and superstitious, awaiting tyrannicide Holy father ravaged, innocent is cursed Hell awaits him now, victim of bloodthirst Woman engulfed in flames, fiend blasphemy Children to the slaughter, relentless massacre Inverted are the crosses, vermin now emerge Total are their losses, burning holy church Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains - Mutilated remains

We gather here to sing for you The words you've written Each bloodshot beauty still reigns true From violent crashes Gently rest your weary head What you lived for now is dead Goodnight (whoa, whoa) Goodbye, a soul surrender (whoa, whoa) This love will set you free From thoughts of yesterday Now death has come to claim Your beautiful remains I'll strike the match to set you off And watch you glisten Our love in time, a single loss You never listened Gently rest your weary head What you lived for now is dead Goodnight (whoa, whoa) Goodbye, a soul surrender (whoa, whoa) This love will set you free From thoughts of yesterday Now death has come to claim Your beautiful remains Here in this room is what we must do Do, we must do Do, we must- This love will set you free From thoughts of yesterday Now death has come to claim Your beautiful remains This love will set you free From thoughts of yesterday Now death has come to claim Your beautiful remains

Was it bitter then, With our backs against the wall? Were we better men, Than we'd ever been before? Say, if she came again today, Would you still answer to the call? Tell the truth my friend, Don't it matter anymore? We were simple men, By her side when she was born. Talkin' about the dream. It was simple then, Like the freedom when you fall. And we were smaller then you see, But soon we gathered like a storm. They don't understand What that thunder meant at all. Was he crucified, Was he done in by the law? Are you satisfied, That he'll never ride again? Some people say he got away, They say he never died at all. If that story's true, Does it bother you my friend? Was it bitter then, With our backs against the wall? Spoken Say, two thousand years ago. Were we better men, Than we'd ever been before? Spoken Or two hundred years ago. Say, if she came again today, Would you still answer to the call? Or tomorrow. Tell the truth my friend, Don't it matter anymore?

In my own way, I'm a believer. In my own way, right or wrong. I don't talk too much about it. It's something I keep workin' on. I don't have too much to build on, My faith has never been that strong. There is a man there in that buildin'. He's a holy man, they say. He keeps talkin' about tomorrow, While I keep strugglin' with today. He preaches hellfire and brimstone, And heaven seems so far away. I do believe in a higher power. One that loves us, one and all. Not someone to solve my problems, Or to catch me when I fall. He gave us all a mind to think with. And to know what's right or wrong. He is that inner spirit, That keeps us strong. In my own way, I'm a believer. But not in voices I can't hear. I believe in a lovin' father. One I never have to fear, That I should live life at its fullest, Just as long as I am here. Mmm-mmm, mmm-mm.

I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river And I'm gonna sit right here until I die I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl Then I heard my dream was back downstream cavortin' in Davenport And I followed you, big river, when she called Oh, she took me to St. Louis later on, down the river A freighter said she's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone An' I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the block Raised a few eyebrows, and went on down alone Well, I pulled into Natchez, next day down the river But there wasn't much there to make the rounders stay very long When I left, it was raining, so nobody saw me crying Big river, why she buried me this way? Now, won't you batter down by Baton Rouge? River Queen, roll it on Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans Go on, I've had enough Dump my blues down in the gulf She loves you, big river, more than me I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky And the tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die