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There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shining bright Oh what a night this is gonna be I think I'll let the world sleep without me I got one eye open One eye closed And my thin body's trembling beneath the bedclothes My heart's beatin' against the roof of my mouth It's almost time to get out of this house I got one hand on the radio One hand on the wheel I got my right foot on the floorboard I'm prepared to kill or be killed There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shining bright And the rain upon the tarmac Helps me sail through the traffic lights I'm heading down to the dock of the bay To feel the power of the waves I'm gonna move up closer to that wind And wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings You see I'm stuck between hell and the deep blue sea And I know that water's sucked under better man than me I was just another western guy SongtexteWith desires that couldn't be satisfied One day I asked the angels for inspiration The devil bought me a drink And he's been buying them ever since He's had the liquor on my tongue Feel like the sea upon the sand He's had me signing confessions From this shaking hand He's had me struggling to hang onto hope Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat And my dog eared bible lost overboard You see he tricked me into temptation So I've tricked him into this confrontation I never said I was the man I appeared to be Not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity Or the soul on fire Scribbling thoughts for posterity I'm gonna have little Lucifer runnin' off to purgatory With his tail between his legs I'm gonna teach him a lesson He ain't ever gonna forget All the vultures and crows are fixin' up some tombstones They won't be chewing the meat off my bones There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shining bright Me and him are gonna have a little knife fight In the bowels of the big city skyline Oh this feelin' inside runs dark and deep Tonight my hearts not thumping A Mercy Beat I was just another western guy With desires that can't be satisfied Oh what a night this is gonna be The world can sleep without me What a night this is gonna be The world can sleep without me Oh what a night this is gonna be The world can sleep without me Aus Songtexte Mania