"Solid Ground" lyrics

Solid ground is where we built our home
A safe distance from the town where we started
The landlords back yonder all want us to die
For the trouble we caused before we departed

We killed 3 young men, without thinking it through
To take all their money and the jewels of their wives
We gathered by starlight what was not ours
And fled for the mountains, and abandoned our knives

Solid ground
Solid ground
I'm either walking up on it or in a burial mound
Solid ground
Solid ground
Once I'm below it I'll never be found

The light of some savior, he found us up there
In an icy log cabin at 6000 feet
We vowed to be servants to the words we had read
And swore that the killing we'd never repeat

But time it must test me like a cured alcoholic
Where the setting's too perfect to fall from the hill
And some people walk to the brink without failing
But I guess our two souls were just put here to kill

Solid ground
Solid ground
We're either walking upon it or in a burial mound
Solid ground
Solid ground
Once I'm below it I'll never be found

We stole an old boat from a dock in the river
And sailed to the ocean to finally be clean
Solid ground is where we'd build our home
If we can ever get out of this wooden machine