Death at Low Water

I could hear you calling
Through the whispering woods
I could hear you call my name
From the back porch door

Said, "Prosper, come here quick, it's worse than we expected it"
Found him this morning and the news ain't good
Finally caught up with him last night
Near the Nevada line

Trail of blood along the clean white salt
Found him faced down on the alkali flat
Rolled him over, barely breathing
Still he got a few words out

Said he was driving the Denio track
A four by four appeared behind his back
Headlights burning up the sky
To the top of Steens Mountain

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Crashed his side door and it forced him to stop
Three men got out dressed in camouflage
Told him, "Start digging us a well
When you're done, you dig another"

Then shots, they ricocheted around his head
Kicked him hard and they left him for dead
Started crawling back to town
And that is when we found him

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And the last thing your father said
When he closed his eyes, was

"Now it's said, the Sun's a big door
That protects us from the dark
And if you look behind it, all you'll see is yourself"

Since he died I lost my will to ride
It's 'neath the surface with my shame and my pride
Someday it will explode, explode into the sky
All the way to the top of Steens Mountain

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