BON JOVI - Dry County lyrics

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Across the border they turn<br>Water into wine<br>Some say it's the devil's blood<br>They're squeezing from the vine<br>Some say it's a saviour<br>In these hard and desperate times<br>For me it helps me to forget<br>That we're just born to die<br><br>I came here like so many did<br>To find the better life<br>To find my piece of easy street<br>To finally be alive<br>And I know nothing good comes easy<br>And all good things take some time<br>I made my bed I'll lie in it<br>To die in it's the crime<br><br>You can't help but prosper<br>Where the streets are paved with gold<br>They say the oil wells ran deeper here<br>Than anybody's known<br>I packed up on my wife and kid<br>And left them back at home<br><br>Now there's nothing in this paydirt<br>The ghosts are all I know<br>Now the oil's gone<br>The money's gone<br>And the jobs are gone<br>Still we're hangin' on<br><br>Down in dry county<br>They're swimming in the sand<br>Praying for some holy water<br>To wash the sins from off our hand<br>Here in dry county<br>The promise has run dry<br>Where nobody cries<br>And no one's getting out of here alive<br><br>In the blessed name of jesus<br>I heard a preacher say<br>That we are god's children<br>And he'd be back someday<br>And I hoped that he knew<br>Something as he drank his cup of wine<br>I didn't have too good of a feeling<br>As I head out to the night<br><br>I cursed the sky to open<br>I begged the clouds for rain<br>I prayed to God for water<br>For this burning in my veins<br>It was like my soul's on fire<br>And I had to watch the flames<br>All my dreams went up in ashes<br>And my future blew away<br><br>Now the oil's gone<br>And the money's gone<br>And the jobs are gone<br>Still we're hangin' on<br><br>Down in dry county<br>They're swimming in the sand<br>Praying for some holy water<br>To wash the sins from off our hand<br>Here in dry county<br>The promise has run dry<br>Where nobody cries<br>And no one's getting out of here alive<br><br>Men spend their whole lives<br>Waiting praying for their big reward<br>But it seems sometimes<br>The payoff leaves you feeling<br>Like a dirty whore<br>If I could choose the way I'll die<br>Make it by the gun or knife<br>'cause the other way there's too much pain<br>Night after night after night<br><br>Down in dry county<br>They're swimming in the sand<br>Praying for some holy water<br>To wash the sins from off our hand<br>Here in dry county<br>The promise has run dry<br>Where nobody cries<br>And no one's getting out of here alive