"All The Way Home" lyrics

There's a place out on the edge of this town
Where you'll find all the people like me
Off to the west, wearing our best
'Neath the cactus and cottonwood trees
Every now and then, I travel into town
My straw hat filled to the brim
I've had enough rest and dust in my chest
I need music and smoke on the wind

All the way home, all the way home
Did someone sing all the way home?
They laid me to rest and hoped for the best
But that's one place that I've never known
That's one place that I've never known

There's many things that grow in the sand
The beetle, the snake, and the rose
I was born on the slope of an old, dead sea
It was not the life my mother chose
We worked metal into spurs, I learned it from her
In iron and silver and gold
Between the boots and the dust and the men you can't trust
That's how I never grew old
Well, that's how I never grew old

All the way home, all the way home
Did someone sing all the way home?
He rode away on the back of a bay
To the one place that I've never known
To the one place that I've never known

The curandera, she had her secret ways
She said none were for me
Then the man in the dark, something so cold and sharp
But nothing I tried set me free

Oh, all the way home, all the way home
Did someone sing all the way home?
All the way home, all the way home
Did someone sing all the way home?
All the way home, all the way home
Did someone sing all the way home?
They laid me to rest and hoped for the best
But that's one place that I've never known
That's one place that I've never known