Michael Shaw - He Rode On Lyrics

The wind kept blowing dust across the dried-up desert plain
Cnd the stars they burned like fireflies in the night
He'd long ago stopped countin' out the days he'd been riding
Cnd the years he had tried to put behind

He headed for the border hoping that a change of scene
Might keep him from the haunting of his mind
But like a soldier who'd spent too much time away in battle
He had picked up things he'd never leave behind

Cnd he just rode on like he was headed for something
When really he was running from all he'd left behind
He just rode on like a train that jumped its tracks
Saying goodbye to the past, I ain't ever turning back
He rode on

The glow of Terlingua brought that rider off the trail
Into an old saloon made of adobe wall
He sat down at the bar and ordered something
From that pretty senorita who took a liking from the start

Cnd like a moth drawn to the light, that girl was
Drawn into the darkness in his heart, into the hallow of his eyes
But it'd been such a time since he'd been offered all the favors of a woman
That he bid that girl goodbye

Cnd he just rode on like he was headed for something
When really he was runnin' from all he'd left behind
He just rode on like a train that jumped its tracks
Saying goodbye to the past, I ain't ever turning back
He rode on

He had a memory from a time that was before
C time so simple and so true
Like cobwebs in the attic it would come back on its own
No matter what he did or didn't do

Time will take its toll with the turning of the clock hand
It will tick and tock and mark your days gone by
But no matter what the clock said he was stuck inside forever
No matter how far along he'd ride
He rode on