Desperados Waiting For the Train
Life's Last Ride: A Tale of Friendship and Fading Desperados
Lyrics
Yeah I played the Red River Valley
Reflecting on playing the Red River Valley, a nostalgic moment.
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
The old man expressing emotions in the kitchen, possibly sorrow.
Run the fingers through seventy years of livin'
Contemplating a long life, running fingers through experiences.
Wonder, if every well he'd drilled gone dry?
Questioning the abundance of life's experiences and if they're exhausted.
We was friends, me and this old man
Establishing a friendship between the narrator and the old man.
Desperados waitin' for a train
Describing a connection between the narrator and the old man as desperados waiting for a train.
Desperados waitin' for a train
-Soon as I could walke'd take me with him
Recalling childhood, being taken to the Green Frog Cafe by the old man.
To a place called the Green Frog Cafe
Introducing a location where old men share stories and play dominoes.
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Describing the scene at the Green Frog Cafe, where old men embellish their life stories.
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
-And I was just a kid, they all called me Sidekick
Highlighting the narrator's role as a kid, nicknamed Sidekick.
Desperados waitin' for a train
Linking the narrator and old men as desperados waiting for a train.
Desperados waitin' for a train
-Yeah he's a drifter, he's a driller of oil wells
Describing the old man as a drifter and oil well driller.
He's an old school man of the world
Portraying the old man as a seasoned individual.
He taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to
Recalling moments when the old man taught the narrator to drive and provided money for women.
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
-And our lives was like, some old Western movie
Comparing their lives to an old Western movie, emphasizing their desperado status.
Desperados waitin' for a train
-Desperados waitin' for a train
-One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
Observing the old man aging, acknowledging him as a hero despite his appearance.
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
-To me he's one of the heroes of this country
-So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Questioning the old man's choice of dressing like other old men.
Just drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
Depicting the old man engaged in typical activities, still a desperado waiting for a train.
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
-Like a desperado waitin' for a train
-The day before he died I went to see him
Recounting a visit to the old man before his death, sharing a dream and playing an old song.
Yeah I was grown and he was almost gone
-We closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
-We played another verse of that old song
-Yeah Jack you know, that son-of-a-bitch is comin'
Expressing anticipation of death like desperados waiting for a train.
Like desperados waitin' for a train
-Like desperados waitin' for a train
Reiterating the theme of waiting for death, similar to desperados waiting for a train.
Like desperados waitin' for a train
-Like desperados waitin' for a train
-Desperados waitin' for a train
Final repetition of the desperados waiting for a train motif.
Desperados waitin'
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