The clouds haze over for the night and I stand alone and dwell...
On the thought with no expectations Lord, that this night wont turn out well.
Outlaws without epitaphs have called me to lead them in this procession I have found, for their unGodly mission of suicide as they descend into the ground.
I thought, there's a jackel's shadow in the moon and the sky it looks so small,
I want to stay above the earth, I don't want to hear this call!

They straddle satanic horses that can tear and scrape your soul, waiting for the right moment to pull you down and stomp you in hot coal.
I know that I have harnessed the cunningly vicious horse that I ride and I will never go down.
My God, I've challenged all death's outlaws to race in this hellish land that you have found.

The desperado dead all wear black hats and red tears fall from their fiercely glowing eyes.
Is it because they are laughing at me my Lord or for my soul they cry?
Devil riders that I wont call my bro's have deepened my darkest fears.
For I do not feel this is a game of jest, I feel my time is near

They growl and bark holding the soul's of riders who played and couldnt pay.
I feel that my incantation's are not strong enough to hold the morbid ghoul's at bay.
God whispered, "Ill use all my powers to help you, no matter what you chose.
But remember this my dear, sweet child, I can't save you if you lose."

I jumped up on my dedicated horse and giving the ghoul's my best F--- You leer,
I rode out and stayed in front of the pack, not one of them got near.

I yelled to Satan that if I won this race, all inslaved riders would be free.
He did'nt say a word, looked me up and down, smiled and nodded to agree.
Into hell I rode and the Devil's eye's flashed for he was losing this furious game.
Every lost rider that I knew and passed cheered and called out my name.
Through the bowel's of the earth, the horses galloped, the race for my soul was run.
So when I reached the center of the earth, I told Satan this was fun!

The Devil screeched through the mountains of his relm that he'd eat me and my little horsey too.
But I just laughed and showed him ass and said, "You cant catch me, screw you too!"
I whispered as lightning flashed and thunder roared and the biggest trees by their roots were torn, that hell would stay open because Satan and his ghoul's were scorned.

Then I raced by myself to reach the top of the earth, although down there I was never alone
There was a fire burning between my legs, the hottest I've ever kknown.
My horse was chared and my clothes were burning from the earths deep smoldering land.
As I came up from desecrated ground, I raised my arm and fisted up my hand.

I rode up and out with my cowboy hat, most clothes had burned away.
Not a single burn mark was on my skin, it was the devil's turn to pay!
And! Pay he did the greedy thing, he knew that he had lost, his sneer looked more like strife.
But he snapped his claw's which shot off sparks and brought the rider's back to life!

God yelled to me," You did it well my wonderful child, you really raised his ire!
Maybe next time I'll run him myself but this time I had no desire!"
I whispered, "You created the love for life and its free to all who play wild in the wind, when the wind of the wild calls! A winner does'nt have to be a man who thinks he's big, strong and tall!
All it takes is a person (Cowgirl Up!) who loves life to much...
to give the Devil a fall!"

Dusty 2008