Out Among the Stars

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas

Closing time, another day is done

When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol

He can't find a job, but Lord, he's found a gun

He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation

Then he lets the old man run out in the street

Even though he knows they'll come with guns a-blazin'

Already he can feel a great relief

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars?

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

He pictured the arrival of the cruisers

Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes

He knows that when they're shootin' at this loser

They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars?

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

The evening news carried all the details

He dies in every living room in town

And in his own, a bottle is thrown in anger

And his father cries, "We'll never live this down"

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

And fly like eagles out among the stars?