New West Motel

If you want good times
I know where to look
And if you want good times i will

They're thrown on your bed
With your junkyard religion
At the best of the western motels

Thrown with the pawns
And the hardscrabble rooks
Thrown with our ransom of kings

But if you want goodtimes
I know where to look
And i know it's goodtimes you want

Long time here x2
I'll keep you around
Holding this ground
I'll keep you a long time here

In 24 hours
We could be in vegas
Where the heat is a possible friend

Where snake eyes and boxcars
Could wet down your whistle
And steal all the noise from your head

But your hell is hotter
Then the typical thirst
And in vegas the ice is not cheap

And heaven's a backroom
Where the gamblin' don't finish
And you keep makin' the same mistakes

Long time here x2
I'll keep you around
Holding this ground
I'll keep you a long . . . .

Long time here x4
I'll keep you around
Holding this ground
I'll keep you a long time here

Man came down from the field
A lonely horseman
Headin' back to the stable
Said he was sorry
But his cain was not able
To save us all from ourselves

Man sees the blood on every door
And hears the laughter
In the good people's hearts
Their pocket's empty
And their coats ripped apart
And the man makes a promise to the town

I wanna give you my murdering stone
Give you my murdering stone

Happy-go-lucky's back in town
Happy-go-lucky's says he's fit to be tied
Now that his hands have done
A sin worse than pride
And the man makes a promise to us all

I wanna give you my murdering stone
Give you my murdering stone

Won't you take my x2
I wanna give you my murdering stone

My hands are heavy now that all the guns are home
Take my murdering stone

And i wanna give you my murdering stone
Please take my murdering x2
Please take my murdering stone

Jack candy was as old as my father
But still i took a likin' to him
He said: "you will be somebody's treasure,
But no one has discovered you yet."

Jack candy lived on sky valley road
And that's where he did business i guess
Some say he sold a suitcase of cocaine
But he never showed me any of that

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town
About the day i lost: jack candy

I was walkin' up to jack candy's trailer
When he shouted that i('d) better head home
The curtains closed as he went back inside
And i trembled 'cause he wasn't alone

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town
About the day i lost: jack candy

Some say they took him out to a clearin'
And made him crawl until he confessed
Some say they hung him up by his bootstraps
Some say they let him swing in the wind

I walked along (the) sky valley road
And out onto the great northern bridge
And for hours i stared into the cold
Sick and tired of denying i loved him

This is a story that i've prayed to tell x2
About the day they drove him from this town x2

I've lived a lie and i have lived it well
This is the story that i've prayed to tell
About a love and how i let him down
About the day i lost: jack candy

Findlay was on his last legs
But he made the rules
Said suffer fools gladly
But never end up as the sufferin' fool

He shook me down
Though it was my first week on the job
Said travellers will trick you
But you will find out all them things for yourself
Yes you will

Findlay he threw me the keys
As he walked outside
And he turned on the big neon sign
But only half of it burned

And i was there fightin' off dreams
When she pulled in the drive
The sound of her wheels woke me up
And there she was, standin' inside

By the stretch
Of a pine barren road
Where the night
Never did what was told
(i never did what was told)
Rooms for the night
Room for your rest
Rooms for the night
At findlay's motel

She looked like she had come down
From the rattlesnake hills
And she pushed the gun to my jaw
And told me to clean out the till

As i handed her over the cash
Findlay limped in
The old man he reached for her gun
But she was stronger than him
Yes she was

By the stretch
Of a pine barren road
Where the night
Never did what was told
(i never did what was told)
Rooms for the night
Room for your rest
Rooms for the night
At findlay's motel

Now bullets don't care what they hit
And findlay went down
And she dropped the gun to the floor
And said, you best call somone now

But my eyes they were fixed on the door
And i walked straight outside
Said suffer fools gladly
As long as this sufferin' keeps you alive
For a spell

(well) i dreamed i saw the devil's club
Growin' by the burnin' bush
And i dreamed that all your razor teeth
Grabbed tomorrow by the root
And i dreamed the long arm of the law
Was a one-armed acrobat

Yeah i dreamed
Unholy dreams

And i dreamed that all the sacred cows
Had been trampled under hoof
And i dreamed the moon had finally crashed
And lit fire to your roof
And i dreamed that there were sights unseen
And their visions could be sold

Yeah i dreamed
Unholy dreams

Unholy dreams x2
Last night, i dreamed unholy dreams

And in the mornin' when i woke
And you were gone
(well) i believed unholy dreams
Yeah i believed
Unholy dreams
Yeah i believed

Fourteen and one half years
You know i was good fortune's slave
Road map on my face
Up to my neck in lucky breaks

Cover your eyes
Don't look now

And durin' all that time
You know i wore this reckless coat
Filled up with matchstick men
And all the bibles that you wrote

Cover your eyes, don't look now x2

First i'll get even
And then i'll make you proud
Revenge is sweeter
When you can laugh out loud

And from these bitterroots
You know i made a potent shine
One-half kerosene
One-half justice all gone blind

First i'll get even
And then i'll make you proud
Revenge is sweeter
When you can laugh out loud

Swing it low, swing it low
Swing it: sweet revenge x2
Swing it low
Sweet revenge

First i'll get even
And then i'll make you proud
Revenge is sweeter
When you can laugh out loud

Swing it low, swing it low
Swing it: sweet revenge x2
Swing it low
Sweet revenge

It soon appears
Long rented shores
Too big to name
And second to none

Save horses' hair
In pockets deep
Remember skies
Second to none

Black rain
Black rain will come
Black rain
Black rain will come

Word to the wise
Don't you sit on this fence
Electric and live
With evangelistic zeal

Spin doctors gave you
All those remedies to choose
So you'd be the weathervane
For clouds that never move

Black rain
Black rain will come
Black rain
Black rain will come

To break it down gently
To wash it down slow
Goin' straight to the bottom
With a mind . . . . of it's own

Black rain, black rain, black rain will come x3
Black rain will come