[Intro]

    (x4)


[Verse]

             
Well I’m drivi

             
ng through Nev

             
ada, just as f

         
ast as I can
             
Fresh from Lak

             
e Tahoe with a

             
 nugget wrappe

       
d in a setlist
             
I’m heading so

             
uth of Boise w

             
ith campfire i

      
n my hair
             
I’ve been losi

             
ng all my inhi

            
bitions somewh

ere out here


[Break]

    (x2)


[Verse]

             
They say I liv

             
e a life roman

              
tic, but ain’t

             
 got a penny t

   
o my name
             
I could come h

              
ere and leave 

             
with nothing a

             
nd be happy ju

       
st the same
             
These people t

              
hey climb the 

             
pulpit they tr

             
y to convince 

      
me to stay
             
But I don’t st

             
ay around long

              
 enough to hea

             
r what they ha

      
ve to say


[Chorus]

             
You know I’m g

          
one, gone, gon

e
             
Like shadows o

             
n your lawn
             
Like a cold wi

             
nd blowing str

    
ong
             
I go back down

             
 like the sun 

             
and I’m always

 
 there


[Break]

    (x2)


[Verse]

             
And these peop

             
le ain’t got m

              
uch they just 

             
clap and sing 


along
             
But in the end

             
 thats all a f

              
olk singer cou

               
ld ever want
              
Yea some of th

             
ese bosses are

            
 saints and so

           
me of them ain

’t here
             
But from Austi

             
n to Missoula 

             
I just do what

        
ever it takes
             
And this preac

             
her digs my mu

             
sic but he’s w

              
orried about m

  
y soul
             
Says if I don’

             
t playing guit

              
ar he reckons 

             
I won’t die at

 
 all
             
Cause I play o

             
n this thing m

             
ore often than

   
 I breathe
             
If you can’t k

              
ill me in mid-

             
song then you 

          
can’t kill me


[Chorus]

            
No I’m gone, g

     
one, gone
             
Like shadows o

             
n your lawn
             
Like a cold wi

             
nd blowing str

    
ong
             
I go back down

             
 like the sun 

             
and I’m always

 
 there


[Break]

    (x8)


[Bridge]

             
This wide-eyed

             
 local finds m

             
e and he throw

            
s me to the
             
He says you lo

             
ok just like J

              
esus without t

             
he blood witho

       
ut the crown
             
He begs me for

             
 salvation, I 

             
just give him 

         
a meager dose
             
Just enough to

             
 get him going

             
 to the next f

    
olk show
              
And I’ve been 

             
dreaming of th

            
e woman who si

             
mply lets me w

ant her
             
With lips as r

             
ed as Moab, as

       
 wet as Gualal

a
             
Yea she holds 

             
me in her arms

             
, yea she trea

             
ts me like a p

rayer
             
She says: I wo

             
n’t let you di

             
e lest you fir

              
st promise to 


live


[Chorus]

             
You know I’m g

          
one, gone, gon

e
             
Like shadows o

             
n your lawn
             
Like a cold wi

             
nd blowing str

    
ong
             
I go back down

             
 like the sun 

             
and I’m always

 
 there


[Outro]

            
I go back, bac

   
k, back
              
Just like the 


sun honey
             
And I’m al-   

       
 always there