I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down
   My second sight a fixed on her demise
   A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed
   Swirlin' round the big and muddy rise
  
   Sulfur colored lights, and frozen rays
   Lighin' up the streets behind the bar
   The lights are weak and dim, like
   the memory of our kin
   Disgraced by curses best not learned at all
  
   Sleep will pass us by
   It's much too slow for that
   This town died but they forgot the funeral
   When this town died, they forgot the funeral
  
   Ill afford and ill equiped
   Fever-eyed surrender to the rains
   The cottonwoods wash locusts from their hair
   It's hard to know just what the daylight brings
  
   Sleep will pass us by
   It's much too slow for that
   This town died but they forgot the funeral
   When this town died, they forgot the funeral
  
   Scapegoat heart and scarecrow legs
   Nothin' in your pockets worth a dime
   A trifling animal, the packhorse of our pride
   Leaves the room and carries on so stubbornly
  
   Sleep will pass us by
   It's much too slow for that
   This town died but they forgot the funeral
   When this town died, they forgot the funeral