The Storm Lyrics

Well, I've said it once before

And I reckon it is true

I'm a solitary man

With a heart beat black and blue

I've dealt my share of pain

And I've felt it once or twice

But I'm still the last man standin'

And the one holdin' the dice

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

They say the storm's a comin'

When I ride on into town

But it looks more like a hurricane

The way they hunker down

Can't say I really blame 'em

For the way they gently fold

Lord knows that I ain't leavin'

Without glory, girls, and gold

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

I'll share with you my secret

But swear to God you'll never tell

I don't bother much with heaven

'Cause I'm busy raisin' hell

I am the King of El Dorado

I am the Curse of Santa Cruz

And I'm gunnin' for the whole wide world

With nothin' left to lose

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

Strike like lightnin'

Roll like thunder

Fall like rain

"Out of the night that covers me

Black as the pit from pole to pole

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid

It matters not how strait the gate

How charged with punishments the scroll

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul"

Fall like rain

Fall like rain

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