Swami River

From way up here my mind is cleared
Of the wrongful things I've done
Far below my head a girl lies dead
The bloody victim of a smoking gun
It just so happened that night that we had a fight
And I ran to my seat at the bar
When I stumbled home, she wasn't alone
And outside parked my best friends car
As mad as a kerr, I see him, I see her
As bare as two babies in bed
When I reached for my friend that I keep in the den
And when I returned, he's gone, she's already dead
I'm flying down to Mexico
Out past the Rio Grande
This desert sun it hits me
It slaps me like a hand
This turbulence can't shake away
Who's wrong and who is right
This broken heart ain't worth a damn peso tonight
When I stepped off the plane the federales they came
And they dragged me to the back of their car
Seems they've gotten wind from some Texas lawmen
They said they knew I wouldn't get very far
As they drove on back up, hot coffee in their cup
They informed me I'd be tried in the first
Nothing to drink and too much time to think
My thoughts are on fearing the worst
Through these long dry plains my mind tried to explain
However I got in the mess
Blood on my shirt, footprints in the dirt
There was no need for me to confess
Now I'm driving back to Texas
On past the Rio Grande
Past the windows or the fences
And the endless spread of sand
Going to face the charges that they've placed upon my head
Broken down and broken heart, I'd just as well be dead
Sooey