The prairie moon is almost spent
I told my Ma you just act like I never went
Nothing's ever gonna change
My love seduced by city lights
The giddy swirl and the flash of a million lives
I lost my girl to New Orleans
I sent her my box of memories
And headed down to Mexico to find me a wife
Them dark haired girls always sing
But brilliant dreams are fickle things
The promised land a vision flickering in the desert heat
And my skin shrinks and turns to rust
My skin shrinks and turns to rust
The stars are flakes of molten dust
And earth gives birth to molten steel
Man is made to think and feel
I have laughed and cried and screamed
I'll be stronger than I dreamed
I am stronger than I dreamed
I am stronger than I dreamed