Well, I saw him walking slowly 'cross the desert The apparition flickered like a flame The rattlensnake shook in the dust and scrawny grass surrounding As the stranger came upon me in the strange
Well, he stepped into my shed beneath the shadows He hunkered down and he squinted 'til he could see And the particles and the motes of dust against the sunlight sparkled like his guns And his blue bombadier eyes fixed on me The same eyes that made that jawbone speak
Oh, in a red rose field, a dark tower stands Oh, there must be a sacrifice gunslinging man Oh, in a red rose field, a dark tower stands Oh, there must be a sacrifice gunslinging man
Well, he sat with it and long they did palaver Of a tower dark and a man with many names And so we set off towards the western sea For so the truth did go beneath the mountains on a train Oh, it was a slow mutant train
And I saw their eyes and blasts of yellow wonder Quick as bullets followed wicked screams And in the dark, I fell and watched the distance growing inbetween us And I said, "Gunslinger, there are other worlds than these!"
Oh, you'll see! There are other worlds than these!
Oh, in a red rose field a dark tower stands Oh, there must be a sacrifice, gunslinging man Oh be your fate tomorrow, sure as you can Oh, there is no peace to follow, gunslinging man
Oh, in a red rose field a dark tower stands Oh, there is no peace to follow, gunslinging man Oh, in a red rose field a dark tower stands Oh, there must be a sacrifice gunslinging man