Will I Ever Reach Laredo

Will I ever reach Laredo Will I ever hold you close Just a traveler in a suitcase On a dangerous stretch of rope Will I ever reach Laredo With this gun crooked to my breast Oh our love is a withering rose But a rose nonetheless And I, I see the glimmering light of a distant city Though I know it ain't the one And I, I see the glimmering light But I have to pass it by That ain't the one Will I ever reach Laredo By this strangely tinted moon It's not the red of the robin Nor the red of the robin's womb It's not the red of the deathless stage Nor the red that paints the west It's not the red of a withering rose But a red nonetheless And I, I see the glimmering light of a distant city Though I know it ain't the one And I, I see the glimmering light But I have to pass it by That ain't the one