[Intro]
   


[Verse 1]

Oh Castilleja
             
You're a prair

              
ie fire dancin

         
g in the wind
            
But you're col

d as a High Si

erra
             
Every time I t

              
ry to bring yo

          
ur flower in


[Chorus]
             
I promised you

             
 the gold in C

alifornia
             
On a painted h

              
orse with rein

            
s of silver th

read
       
But if I can't

 steal your he

art, Castillej

a
             
I'll end up wi

              
th a price upo

     
n my head


[Verse 2]
         
You were bold,

 Castilleja
             
When I saw you

              
 at Mojave's d

        
rinking slow
        
Full of poison

 like an arrow
             
Was just tryin

              
g to say how m

              
uch I love you

 
 so


[Chorus]
             
I promised you

             
 the gold in C

alifornia
             
On a painted h

              
orse with rein

            
s of silver th

read
       
But if I can't

 steal your he

art, Castillej

a
             
I'll haunt you

              
 like a fugiti

      
ve instead


[Instrumental Break]
          


[Verse 3]
              
Two strangers 


make one darke

ned shadow
             
That moved aga

              
inst the paper

   
ed wall
           
When suddenly 

there loomed a

nother
             
And Castilleja

         
 came to fall


[Verse 4]
         
So I lit out e

ast of Inyo
             
To where the h

              
ighway turns t

  
o sand
        
There I met th

at heartless d

evil
             
Your desert fl

            
ower in his ha

nd


[Bridge]
             
And I was quic

              
k, like a stre

      
ak of lightnin

g
             
I fired first 

            
and then he fe

ll
      
Now I dream of

 Castilleja
             
Whose secret I

            
 will never te

ll


[Chorus]
             
I promised you

              
 the gold in C

   
alifornia
             
On a painted h

              
orse with rein

            
s of silver th

read
       
But if I can't

 steal your he

art, Castillej

a
             
I'll ghost thi

              
s world long a

         
fter I'm dead


[Outro]

Oh Castilleja

Oh Castilleja

Oh Castilleja