Badlands Honeymoon Lyrics

South Dakota, about five years ago

We had driven straight for two days up from Chicago

And we drove out to that desolate plateau

Steel eyes staring out across the Badlands below

We crept down, down, down into the mazes

Our boot prints in the mud our only traces

You spied a Coke can from 1965

And I stopped to ask you if you thought the guy was dead or alive

After the sun set, we threw our blankets down

And made love while above us on the prairie the coyotes howled

And that very same night, Lord, I dreamed such dreams

I was sinking through the water, only catfish could hear my screams

When I awoke, the moon was shining bright

But when I looked around there was no sign of you by my side

I waited for the sunrise to take a shot of liquor

Then I turned, and I began to walk across that lonesome desert

After three long days, I thought I saw you, honeybun

You were smiling real sweetly at me right up the barrel of a shotgun

But when I looked again, there was nothing there

Just the sun above and the rock below for me to bear

So when you're staring deeply into your woman's eyes

You better not start, no, you better not show any surprise

When you hear my voice from many miles below

Saying, "Come back, baby, better kiss me once before you go"