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
