It's midnight at a liquor store in texas

Closing time another day is done

When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol

He can't find a job but lord he's found a gun

He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation

That he lets the old man run out in the street

Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing

Already he can feel that great relief

Oh how many travelers get wear-y

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars

He pictures the arrival of the cruisers

Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes

He knows that when they're shooting at this loser

They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives

Oh how many travelers get wear-y

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars

The evening news carries all the details

He dies in every living room in town

In his own a bottle's thrown in anger

And his father cries we'll never live this down

Oh how many travelers get wear-y

Bearing both their burdens and their scars

Don't you think they'd love to start all over

And fly like eagles out among the stars

And fly like eagles out among the stars