Open Plain Lyrics

My life's lived out on the open plain

Everyone stares from the highway passin' through

From California to Carolina

They know my name from the devil's laughin' crew

And I tried to be a good man

But I lied to play my hand

And I fought my circumstance

But you can't win

Well hold on, Noah, there's a shiftin' wind

See the cold comin' over yonder off the hills

Livin' off crumbs of the widow's table

One of these days we will eat and drink our fill

And we tried to understand

But we cried the Rio Grande

And we fought our circumstance

But we can't win

Hip's outta socket and bone's outta joint

Heard your promise to my father years ago

Wrestled me down with a holy fist

A staff for a lesson that only you could show

And I tried to make my name

But I lied to cover my shame

And I fought 'til the end

But I can't win