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The
World's Oldest Boy*
It's Not
Looking Good*
Little Rabbit
Enjoy
The Ride*
Trillionaires
This Island Life*
Canto Del Gato*
Junior
Bandango*
Till The Sun Comes Out
Some God Forgives*
The Minister Of Shadows
Visions
Of Dulcinea*
Now hush, old boy, don't bark tonight
It's just a bat's careening flight
It's just coyote's starlit song
That makes the darkness feel so strong
That makes me long to light the lamp
Against the cold and damp
Lie on the porch here at my feet
While I suck my whiskey teet
And wish away the lonely years
Until your fading face appears
Every day I still pretend
That you're my love and he's my friend
Tonight I once again must learn
That dead men do return
Adobe walls could never hide
The stolen love you both denied
And when at last push came to shove
He died alone but kept your love
Your broken heart could not be won
Not even with a gun
Your face still haunts me in this gloom
The way you danced across the room
Not I alone who saw you dance
Had blood that thrilled in doomed romance
All sins progress from ripe to rot
Some God forgives, most I forgot
And what my heart holds in their place
Is just your long-lost face
I wish I could retrace the line
From what is gone to what is mine
I wish the evil and the good
Were light as seeds of cottonwood
I wish my wishes held more pride
Than horses beggars ride
So hush, old boy, and close your eyes
Silent mists like souls arise
Through rustling cornstalks 'til the breeze
Dispels those vapors with such ease
And when those phantoms disappear
They leave this phantom sitting here
Someday these ghosts must surely die
But then so must I
Set in southern Colorado, this is a ghost story about an old man and his dog sitting out on his porch on a spooky fall night, the man thinking back on a love affair from long ago gone terribly wrong.