Dry County
[00:15.61] Across the border they turn
[00:18.33] Water into wine
[00:21.55] Some say it's the devil's blood
[00:24.10] They're squeezing from the vine
[00:27.81] Some say it's a saviour
[00:30.05] In these hard and desperate times
[00:33.34] You see it helps me to forget
[00:36.30] That we're just born to die
[00:53.82] I came here like so many did
[00:57.05] To find a better life
[01:00.36] To find my piece of easy street
[01:03.31] And finally be alive
[01:06.06] I knew nothing good comes easy
[01:08.78] All good things take some time
[01:11.79] I made my bed I'll lie in it
[01:15.06] To die in it's the crime
[01:17.81] You can't help but prosper
[01:21.07] Where the streets are paved with gold
[01:24.03] They say the oil wells ran deeper here
[01:27.31] Than anybody's known
[01:30.04] Now I packed up on my wife and kid
[01:33.31] And left them both back home
[01:36.30] See there's nothing in this paydirt
[01:39.29] The ghosts are all I know
[01:41.28] Now the oil's gone
[01:44.58] And the money's gone
[01:47.56] All the jobs are gone
[01:50.56] Still we're hangin' on
[01:53.58] Down in dry county
[01:56.87] They're swimming in the sand
[01:59.57] Praying for some holy water
[02:02.81] To wash these sins from off our hands
[02:06.06] In dry county
[02:09.05] The promise has run dry
[02:11.82] Where nobody cries
[02:15.06] And no one's getting out of here alive
[02:23.34] Not this time
[02:29.82] In the blessed name of Jesus
[02:32.80] I heard a preacher say
[02:36.06] We are all God's children
[02:39.08] That He'd be back, back someday
[02:42.28] Hoped that he knew
[02:44.31] Something as he drank his cup of wine
[02:47.55] I didn't have too good a feeling
[02:50.55] As I head out to the night
[02:53.57] I cursed the sky to open
[02:56.80] I begged the clouds for rain
[03:00.10] I prayed all night for water
[03:02.80] For this burning in my veins
[03:06.06] It was like my soul's on fire
[03:09.07] And I had to watch the flames
[03:11.81] Well, my dreams went up in ashes
[03:14.58] And my future blew away
[03:17.57] Down in dry county
[03:21.05] They're swimming in the sand
[03:23.85] Praying for some holy water
[03:27.06] To wash these sins from off our hands
[03:30.78] In dry county
[03:33.28] The promise has run dry
[03:36.07] Where nobody cries
[03:39.03] And no one's getting out of here alive
[05:16.28] Man spends his whole life
[05:18.07] Waiting praying for some big reward
[05:21.57] But it seems sometimes
[05:23.08] The payoff leaves you feeling
[05:26.05] Like a dirty whore
[05:28.31] If I could choose the way I'd die
[05:31.30] Make it by the gun or knife
[05:33.84] 'Cause the other way there's too much pain
[05:37.37] Night after night after night after night
[05:44.32] Down in dry county
[05:48.30] Where they're swimming in the sand
[05:51.06] Praying for some holy water
[05:54.05] To wash these sins from off our hands
[05:57.58] In dry county
[06:00.32] The promise has run dry
[06:03.33] Where nobody cries
[06:06.07] And no one's getting out of here
[06:10.06] Dry county. No
