The Heavy Horses - Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs

00:00 01. Intro
01:22 02. Anyone Can Tell
06:39 03. Copper ; Gold
09:53 04. Into The Earth
13:28 05. Pale Rider
17:09 06. Thirty Year Night
21:03 07. Cold Winter Skies
24:24 08. Hell Awaits
28:20 09. Heavy Heart Of Mine
32:07 10. Mexican Valley
36:50 11. In Darkness He Came

3. Copper ; Gold

I was born with a heart made of copper and gold
I polished it down so I would not grow old
But the rains they come under rot blackened skies
And they wither my heart despite all I try

Shadow of death, it is trailing me
It haunts me on land and it haunts me on sea
Try as I might I just can't get away
It'll haunt me until it kills me one day

My wife is my darlin' and I am her man
As much as I love her she don't understand
That the ways of the world are not always kind
And the weight of the world is a burden at times

I talk to the devil when I'm down in the hole
He always says that he owns my soul
But no matter how much that I beg or I plead
That the day that I die, he'll come take it from me

So I leave you this heart made of copper and gold
May it be yours until you grow old
And if the rains ever come, and anger you seize
Will you polish that heart and then think of me?
Will you polish that heart and then think of me?


4. Into the Earth

I shot her in the valley next to my childhood home
When she said she didn't love me anymore
I can still hear her crying before I dried her tears for good
With one shot from my beloved .44

I killed her because I loved my darlin' so
I could not bear to stand by and watch her go
She went quick and without much pain
Now I'm left to live and never love again

I buried her in the valley next to my childhood home
In an unmarked grave never to be found
I can still see her face so beautiful to me
As I laid her in that cold, cold ground

And I killed her because I loved my darlin' so
And I could not bear to stand by and watch her go
She died quick and went without much pain
But I'm left to live and never love again
Now I'm left to live and never love again


5. Pale Rider

Ride to town, shoot em up and keep on going
Cause I got a job to do and I don't stop for no one
So get your gun, and kiss your wife, and lock up your daughter
Don't let her fall in love with the pale rider

Many men have quickly found I'm unforgiving
They say dying ain't no way to make a living
So get your gun and bet your life, if you're a gambler
You draw a dead man's hand against the pale rider

And I walked down into Mexico
What I came for I think you know
I take another life, it's all the same
It's one more killing to the man that has no name

So ride to town, shoot em up and keep on going
Cause I got a job to do and I'll be gone come morning
So get your gun, and kiss your wife and hug your daughter
Tell her you're off to meet the pale rider
Don't let her fall in love with the pale rider

And I walked down into Mexico
What I came for I think you know
I take another life, it's all the same
It's one more killing to the man that has no name
It's one more bullet to the man that has no name


6. Thirty Year Night

The Nighttime crept quickly and finished the last of the sun.
I closed my eyes and tried hard to forget what I'd done.
But darkness sweeps down from above and consumes my soul.
Like night its so empty and bitterly cold.

I'm heavy with burdens that shatter my last chance at sleep.
I hear them all crying, see my poor mother weep.
Guard on my left, a gavel slams down on my right,
And iron bars close on a thirty year night.

Oh Lord Take me home
Oh Lord take me home

I scribble a note, say I'm sorry that it happened this way,
Exhaling my last breath so free knowing not what to say.
the light burns my eyes but I see peace so clear,
my heart bids my soul a farewell, feet kicking the air.

Oh Lord take me home
Oh Lord take me home


7. Cold Winter Skies

Trembling hands grasping the neck of my lover
With shadows surrounding us both and acting as cover
Begging and pleading while praying that someone comes near
While the silence of miles ensuring that no one will hear

Holding her down, the flesh on my fingers turns black
Whispering to her, ensuring that she'll be alright
With one final breath, I watched the life fade from her eyes
Just as open and blue and still, as these cold winter skies


8. Hell Awaits

I stumble from the woods after nightfall,
soaked in crimson rain from head to toe.
I slaughtered all our soul and showed no mercy.
I'm not the least concerned with where I have to go.

I returned to find my house burning bright.
They've raped my wife and killed my only son.
I return from war a victim for my country.
And was repaid with the deaths of those I love.

So, darling, won't you take my hand in marriage.
Walk with me across the firing line.
'Cause I'm headed straight to hell for what I've done here.
And I could use a little of your precious company.

I found the ones that took me from my child.
and I did the deed that would just seal my fate;
in the background I can hear Satan's laughter
and I knew deep down inside that Hell awaits.

So, darling, won't you take my hand in marriage
and walk with me across the firing line?
I'm headed straight to hell for what I've done here
and I could use a little of your precious company.


9. Heavy Heart of Mine

Now you're gone, well it's been three years long
I still feel it in this heart of mine
This heavy heart of mine seems to waste no time
Placing burden in this troubled lonesome soul

For the troubles that you'd find in the things I left behind
When you rode off in the dark that night
And now you're gone for good and I think it's understood
That you ain't never coming back this way

They found you in those mines that lay deep within those pines
In the mountains where I dare not go
And I struggled not to cry as the sewer closed your eyes
And the digger put the shovel to his hands

But I shed no tears even after all these years
That I spent running around with you
Though I must admit it hurt when they covered you with dirt
And they lowered you into the ground

Oooh heavy heart of mine
Oooh heavy heart of mine

They said when you got killed that the wrong blood had been spilled
And the guilty slipped away into the night
Don't think I felt no shame when I denied to know your name
To the men that would've stolen my life

Cause I still shed plenty tears even after all these years
That I spent running ‘round without you
And now I'm gone for good and I think it's understood
That I ain't never coming back this way

Oooh heavy heart of mine
Oooh heavy heart of mine
Oooh heavy heart of mine
Oooh heavy heart of mine


10. Mexican Valley

When the gallows whispered my name I fled south of the border
There I sought refuge amongst an old Mexican town
Leaving behind all my troubles and wrongs from my past life
I met an angel to help this wild horse settle down

The shade of her hair is black as the night time around me
One look from her eyes could make the tequila taste sweeter
On a hot summer night we were married in a Mexican valley
This refugee outlaw and a beautiful Mexican brid

Walk through the valley, where angels fly
Walk through the valley, where angels fly

On the night of the marriage we headed to an old hacienda
My love in my arms and the music of a mariachi band
When all of a sudden my troubles from my past life they found me
In the form of a sheriff who swore that he tracked me down

When the shouts turn to shots I lost track of the girl I just married
In the haze of tequila I could not tell where I was shooting
When the gun smoke had cleared, my true love lay dead on the bar floor
And though I was breathing, my heart was telling me I was gone

Wade through the valley, where angels cry
Wade through the valley, where angels cry
Wade through the valley, where angels cry
Wade through the valley, where angels cry


11. In Darkness He Came

Out in a Mexican town is where I found Jesus
Out of the Mexican night, in darkness he came

When the hammer clicked, I heard angels
coming to take me to my grave

Woah Lord, I've been a terrible man
and there ain't much left of my soul

But, dying in an ambush, in the Mexican night
that ain't no way for a legend to go."