Old 97's - By The End Of The Night Lyrics

Old 97's Lyrics

"By The End Of The Night"

I went straight to the sea
Blind old fool that I am
Her face was stricken and mean
Looking right where I am

She said there's a beautiful life
Bedding on a grassy rim
Staring at the stars all night
'Til she is a part of them

Her wanting to be free
Was more than I could fight
She wouldn't matter to me
There by the end of the night

The T&T Railroad, you know
Has taken many a life
The meanest of the iron roads
Took her off in the night

But I [?] to be free
When her headlight eye is bright
And it'll be the last to see
There by the end of the night

I went straight to the sea
Blind old fool that I am
Her face was stricken and mean
Looking right where I am

She said what a beautiful life
Bedding on a grassy rim
Staring at the stars all night
'Til she is a part of them

Her wanting to be free
Was more than I could fight
She wouldn't matter to me
There by the end of the night
She wouldn't matter to me
There by the end of the night

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Writer(s): Stewart Ransom Ii Miller, Kendall Dewayne Bethea, Murry Hammond, Philip Wayne Peeples

album: "American Primitive" (2024)

Old 97's - American Primitive album cover

By The End Of The Night

Chased The Setting Sun

This World

Estuviera Cayendo

(Instrumental)

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