Texas Moon

One more day and we could get no reason
Soon the thing we deed like a harpoon
Followed the lightning south into black treason
Live out my days beneath the Texas moon

Started out a card sharp king from St. Louis
Playing for another table spoon
Lost my fancy vest and both my kidneys
To reject time with Texas moon

I met a bunch of fools in Oklahoma
Their leader was a lonesome old baboon
Had those rascal's hometown homemade soma
Hooked on that yeah and the Texas moon

He knew a house that opened up in Dallas
I stepped within a dark and sweet room
She said I'm afraid you can't accept that fallacy
But lie down here and feel the Texas moon

Crying is no substitute for laughter
I would have thought but now I feel anew
I'm held and born here in ever after
Cold by fire like the Texas moon

And I expect to find life there unpleasant
My exit will be most enough achieved
I'm leaving while I can see this crescent
Crescent of a ghostly Texas moon

It can't be any hotter than this jail
It can't be any colder than this moon
It can't be any deader than a doornail
Or half as live as the Texas moon

Mother send no flowers for my passing
Surely life is just one long lampoon
Brother end your vigilance and your fasting
I'm going down beneath the Texas moon

I'm going down beneath the Texas moon
I'm going down beneath the Texas moon
I'm going down beneath the Texas moon
Going down beneath the Texas moon
Going down beneath the Texas moon
I'm going down beneath the Texas moon