C        F
It's Midnight at a liquor store in Texas
C       G
Closing time another day is done
       C         F
When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol
   C            G
He can't find a job but Lord he's found a gun
   C        F
He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation
        C        G
That he lets the old man run out in the street
C    F
Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing
 C             G
already he can feel that great relief

[Chorus]
F
Oh how many travelers get weary
G
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
F
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
G
And fly like eagles out among the stars

[Verse]
   C        F
He pictures the arrival of the cruisers
C         G
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes
   C          F
He knows that when they're shooting at this loser
           C      G
They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives
C       F
Evening news it carries all the details
   C       G
He dies in every living room in town
    C      F
And in his own a bottle's thrown in anger
        C      G
And his father cries we'll never live this down

[Chorus] 
F
Oh how many travelers get weary
G
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
F
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
G
And fly like eagles out among the stars

[Outro] 
F
Oh how many travelers get weary
G
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
F
Don't you think they'd love to start all over
G
And fly like eagles out among the stars