There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shinin' bright Oh what a night this is gonna be I think I'll let the world sleep without me I got one eye open, one eye closed And my thin body's tremblin' Beneath the bedclothes My heart's beatin' against the roof of my mouth It's almost time to get out of this house
I got one hand on the radio And one hand on the wheel I got my right foot on the floorboards I'm preparin' to kill or be killed
There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shinin' bright And the rain upon the tarmac Helps me sail through the traffic lights I'm headin' down to the dock of the bay To feel the power of the waves I'm gonna move up close to that wind And wrestle with the thoughts Solitude always brings
Y'see I'm stuck between hell And the deep blue sea And I know that water's sucked under Better men than me I was just another Western guy With desires that couldn't be satisfied One day I asked the angels for inspiration But the Devil bought me a drink And he's been buying them ever since!
He's had the liquor on my tongue Feel like the sea upon the sand He's had me signing confessions From this shaking hand He's had me strugglin' to hang onto hope Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat With a bottle of vodka in my overcoat And my dog eared bible lost overboard
Y'see he tricked me into temptation So I've tricked him into this confrontation I never said I was the man I appeared to be Not the flesh wrapped 'round the bones of necessity Or the soul on fire scribblin' thoughts for posterity
I'm gonna have little Lucifer runnin' off to Purgatory With his tail between his legs I'm gonna teach him a lesson He ain't ever gonna forget All the vultures and crows Are fixin' up some tombstones But they won't be chewin' the meat off my bones
There's a high wind blowin' And the stars are shinin' bright Me and Him are gonna have a little knife fight In the bowels of the big city skyline Oh, this feeling inside runs dark and deep Tonight my heart's not thumpin' a mercy beat
Yeah, I was just another western guy With desires that couldn't be satisfied Oh, what a night this is gonna be The world can sleep without me The world can sleep without me The world can sleep without me