Jacinto City Lyrics

Went down to Jacinto City

The year was just 21

The people round there they told it was a place where

Independence was won

Winter's last round the snow fell down

I slept with just a candle and a gun

But my greatest challenge came that spring

After a man on the run

A man out on the run

Oh what fun, out the window on the run

When you think no one is going to find you

Best believe, those shadows on your trail

They won't give you any refuge

He broke out in the middle of the night

We found the footprints in the daylight

Deputy said how far can one man roam

If he doesn't have a home

We searches Pasadena up-and-down

Went through all the little villages and towns

Rumors spread about where he did hide

But those were just a waste of time

A waste of my precious time

Oh what fun, out the window on the run

When you think no one is going to find you

Best believe, those shadows on your trail

They won't give you any refuge

I'll never forget the day we finally tracked him down

I can still see him there as the sun hit the ground

He walked forty miles down to Galveston Bay

We caught there, he said there's one thing left to say

He said maybe we're not so different, you and me

Maybe you're running from something that could set you free

I thought about my family and all I left behind

Thought when this job was done, I might head back east

Across that line