West Texas in My Eye

Lately I've been thinking that I could leave this town
 Cut back on my drinking, stop this running 'round
 Playing songs 'til after midnight, staying up 'tilldawn
 There's something in the dust and wind that keeps me hanging on
 And I never thought I'd live to see the day I'd say goodbye
 I ain't crying, that's west Texas in my eye
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 I'll be your blue eyed bandit if you'll be my renegade
 I count a thousand tumbleweeds roll by me everyday
 I'd like to grow a rose and stow it in that desert sage
 Like a message in a bottle floating down the open plains
 Where the Llano Estacado rises up to meet the sky
 I ain't crying, that's west Texas in my eye
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 I've seen the thunderheads descend and rip into the ground
 The twisted hand of heaven spreading terror all around
 Sending farmers into deeper debt and ranchers to the grave
 Where towers mark the end of time with slowly spinning blades
 'Til the water table falls below the reach of humankind
 I ain't crying, that's west Texas in my eye
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 Lately I've been thinking, I could leave this town
 Cut back on my drinking and stop this running around
 Playing songs 'til after midnight and staying up till dawn
 But there's something in the dust and wind that keeps me hanging on
 And I never thought I'd live to see the day I'd say goodbye
 I ain't crying, that's west Texas in my eye
 I ain't crying, that's west Texas in my eye