Track Insight / Lyrics
You're a wanderer, a lonely soul
On the neon streets of Santa Fe's goal
Tile-hued motels stretch far as I can see
Like a painting of how dreams used to be
Your beat-up truck and rifle in the back
You came here searching for something that's went past
No direction, just a restless ease
Chasing down a mirage of what used to please
Oh, you're the nightwatch stranger, lost in a haze
Guarding the veranda of this faded motel phase
Your eyes meet mine, a moment's pause
Before you look away, in this dusty den of vows
LA to Texas, a million miles between
You've seen it all, but the ghosts still creep
In the desert nights, they start to seep
From the walls, the floor, the ceiling's sleep
Your beat-up truck and rifle in the back
You came here searching for something that's went past
No direction, just a restless ease
Chasing down a mirage of what used to please
Oh, you're the nightwatch stranger, lost in a haze
Guarding the veranda of this faded motel phase
Your eyes meet mine, a moment's pause
Before you look away, in this dusty den of vows
And when the stars align, and the wind should moan
Perhaps in the silence, we'll find our way back home
Though the road ahead's uncertain, the call remains
To traverse these Lands of Enchantment, through pain
Oh, you're the nightwatch stranger, lost in a haze
Guarding the veranda of this faded motel phase
Your eyes meet mine, a moment's pause
Before you look away, in this dusty den of vows
As the first light dawns, you'll be gone
Leaving me with memories, that refrain like a song
Of a nightwatch stranger, and a motel round
Where two souls crossed paths, in the desert's sacred ground
