Steep Canyon Rangers - When The Well Runs Dry lyrics

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(Verse)

It's all lit up like Christmas

And there's a skyline of flame

Middle high light lights up the prairie night

Right on the way out to the flames

Out on the low horizon, the sunrise burns my eyes

Shining on fur petangles, and the flat bed's hauling pipe

(Chorus)

We all need the money, babe, and I can't love

There's no time to wonder what'll happen when the well runs dry

(verse 2)

This whole town's made of trains

And the trains stretch two miles long

Some guys phone the money home

Or they drink until it's gone

Ranch hands are learned to rough neck

And the men lined up to work

There's another boom but there ain't no room

So they sleep out in the trucks

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

Sometimes I feel like I'm turning the wheel

My dad took me down to an old ghost town when I was five years old

With their minds bled and their dreams in their heads

Until the river ran out of gold

I look up and miles are burning red

And God knows how much it's worth

Then the stars go black and the sun comes back

And it's time to go to work

(Chorus x2)