THE ROSE OF EL PASO

She works days, I work nights I come home late, she turns out the light Without a word Like a prairie dog I run wild Living hard to numb the miles A million miles We can't go on like this Something's gotta change Are you lonesome too Out on the range? She took the kids to Birmingham I Packed my case and left the band Just another journeyman On the long drive under diamond skies Southbound in the dashboard light Then our song came on the radio We don't have to live like this Something's gotta change Are you lonesome too Out on the range? Out on the range, is a desert rose In the burning dust and wind still it grows So drive with me tonight, under sapphire skies To the Rose of El Paso Out on the range, is a desert rose Borderland, the Rio Grande winding slow So drive with me tonight, in the dashboard light To the Rose of El Paso So drive with me tonight under cold Texas skies To the Rose of El Paso I stop on the hard shoulder to watch the river flow Oh, still it goes The butterfly wings through pale blue sky to the desert rose Oh