Out Among the Stars (feat. Jessi Colter)

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas

Closing time another day is done

When a boy walkes in the door and points a pistol

He can't find a job, Lord, he's found a gun

Pulls it off with no trace of confrontation

Then he lets the old man run out in the street

Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing

And already he can feel that great relief

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

He pictures the arrival of the cruisers

Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes

He knows when they're shooting at this loser

They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

The evening news carries all the details

He dies in every living room in town

In his own a bottle's thrown in anger

And his father cries, we'll never live this down

Oh, how many travelers get weary

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining

And fly like eagles out among the stars?

Fly like eagles out among the stars