Well This Is How It Starts Two Lovers In The Dark on The Run From The One That They Call Sheriff Sparks six Guns By The Side And Bullets 'round Their Waist two Shots To The Sky Signal Sign For The Chase. the Safe Is Nearly Empty And They Were Nearly Free but Were Seen By The Good Eye Of The Mean Billy Greene and He Screamed At The Top Of His Lungs 'they're On The Run' it's The Two Outsiders Grab Your Horses And Your Guns
i Said I Wish That We Could Stay Here but I Fear Our Time Is Come we Could Ride Out In The Darkness chasin' The Risin' Sun we Gotta Pack Our Bags This Instant we're Headin' Southbound 'til The Next Town and If We Arrive There So Safely baby You Could Lay Me Down lay Me Down lay Me Down lay Me Down
well Its The Story Of The Two, Always On The Move they Got Nothing Left To Lose 'cept Their Guns And They Wounds now They're Crossing Borders Sheriff's Posse On Their Tail they'd Rather Die Together Than Be Stuck Up In A Cell they Drank Up All The Whiskey And They Partied Every Night like It Could Be The Last, The Bounty Said To 'shoot On Sight' they're Chasing In The Summer, Knew It Came With A Price they Wouldn't Stop Running 'til They Found The Paradise but The Sheriff Finally Found Them With His Eyes Seeing Red so The Lovers Had To Shoot Him Down And Fill Him Full Of Lead they Were Finally Free To Find A Place To Lay Their Head and When They Finally Did He Looked At Her And Then He Said
i Said I Think That We Can Stay Here 'cause I Feel Our Time Has Come and We Can Walk Down To The Ocean and Sit With The Rising Sun so Unpack Your Bags This Instant no More Running From Town To Town and Now That We've Arrived So Safely baby You Can Lay Me Down lay Me Down lay Me Down lay Me Down
well You're My Green-Eyed Girl And I Been Running Around With You its The Afternoon And We Got Nothing Left To Do so Wipe The Dirt Off Or Take Your Shirt Off and We Should Go Hit The Cantina; We Got Work Off
i Said Its Hot Outside Let Me Go Swimming In Your Eyes we Been Running For Awhile Why Don't You Lay Down; Make Me Smile i Could Never Ask For Nothing Better Than This it's Just Tequila And The Beach, That's Why It's Salty When We Kiss
i Said I Think That We Can Stay Here 'cause I Feel Our Time Has Come and We Can Walk Down To The Ocean and Sit With The Rising Sun so Unpack Your Bags This Instant no More Running From Town To Town and Now That We've Arrived So Safely baby You Can Lay Me Down lay Me Down lay Me Down oh, Lay Me Down lay Me Down