El Paso City

Lyrics

[Verse 1] From thirty thousand feet above The desert floor, I see it there below A city with a legend The west Texas town of El Paso I recall a story that I heard long ago about a girl And a little place called Rosa's Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl I don't know who sang the song But I recall the story that I heard And as I fly around I remember each and every word About a jealous cowboy And the way he used a gun To kill another cowboy Then he had to leave El Paso on the run [Chorus 1] El Paso City, by the Rio Grande The cowboy lived and rode away But love was strong, he couldn't stay He went back just to die in that El Paso sand El Paso City, by the Rio Grande The voice inside, he's callin' me Another voice keeps tellin' me Maybe death awaits me in El Paso [Verse 2] My heart is down there somewhere As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico I can't explain why I should know The very trail he rode back to El Paso Could it be that man can disappear from life and live another time? And does the mystery deepen And you think that you yourself lived in that other time? Somewhere in my deepest thoughts Familiar scenes and memories unfold These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long But I have never told Like every time I fly up through the heavens And I see you there below I get the feeling sometime in another life I lived in El Paso [Chorus 2] El Paso City, by the Rio Grande And I'll go leave the runway The love was tough, he couldn't stay He went back just to die in that El Paso sand El Paso City, by the Rio Grande The voice inside, he's callin' me Another voice keeps tellin' me Maybe death awaits me in El Paso [Outro] El Paso City