Artist: Ben Nichols / Lucero
Song: Toadvine
Album: The Last Pale Light in the West
Tuning: Standard
Note: "[lyrics]" are sung on the CD but not in the printed lyrics
INTRO:
VERSE 1:
[I] rode myself into the ground, hell it’s almost over now,
I don’t see nothing but the light
Darkness filled my days, the rising sun has shown the way, [and]
I Don’t see nothing but the light
The preacher’s lesson, is simply Armageddon,
The devil, he knows how to ride
A killer of men, and no way to save them,
Hell now we all have to die
CHORUS:
You wouldn’t think that out here, a man could simply run clear
Out of country but, oh my... oh my, [Oh my... oh my]
Nothing but the light
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
VERSE 2:
They took my ears in Omaha, thought me dead but I weren’t all [and I]
Left them bleeding in the mud
Branded me for horse thievery, between my eyes for all to see [and I]
Left them bleeding in the mud
When this world was made, [it] was never meant to save
Everyone in kind
And I don’t believe, God much had me
Had me much in mind
CHORUS REPEAT:
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
ABRIDGED VERSE 3:
So tell me barkeep, What is there to drink
With just minimal risk
Of blindness or death, it all tastes of ashes
Seems that’s all we ever get,
It's all we ever get
REPEAT CHORUS AS FINALE:
--crookedpath