Lubbock, Texas

The highway's a river pulling muck through this town

Fools who don't look where they drive

Three years today since they ran my son down

Since then things've never been right

Kathleen and i fought like damnation

Though neither thought the other to blame

Now i live alone in the back of our gas station

With no-one to carry my name



Trucks hit 84 then pull on out of sight

As last light hits the edge of town

It's just the stars and the moon and the cold breath of night

Gonna watch this old rounder go down



Two boys planted at the holiday inn

They smashed the front window with a block of stone

While i slept with my hand on a bottle of gin

They took off with all the money i own

Just as well no-one shoved a barrel in my face

Or someone would've died that night

I work to long and hard in this place

For punks to get away without a fight

State trooper caught 'em speeding out through Tahoka

And brought an end to their spree

I got back my cashbox, it's door swinging open

Not much left to comfort me



Their rounding up rattlers right now in sweetwater

They come from the whole world round

No-one's with me not a son or a daughter

To watch this old rounder go down



Trucks hit 84 then pull on out of sight

As last light hits the edge of town

It's just the stars and the moon and the cold breath of night

Gonna watch this old rounder go down

Gonna watch this old rounder go down