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