And I was gripped by that deadly phantom I followed him through hard jungles As he stalked through the back lots Strangling through the night shades
Moved onwards and outwards to love
A storm bangs on the cheapest room The phantom slips in to spill blood Even on the sweetest honeymoon
Caught the last late Niagara bus
By chance or escaping from misery By suddenness or in answer to pain Smoking in the dark cinema You could see the bad go down again
And the clouds are high in Spanish mountains And a Ford roars through the night full of rain.
But he loads his gun again
Make a grown man cry like a girl To see the guns dying at sunset