Jim DiBattista: Music

The Outlaw

(Jim DiBattista)

August 1, 2005

James DiBattista

written 5/5/79-----
Oh yea, I was living in my father's RV parked in our driveway because the house was so crowded. I ran an extension cord from the cellar. What a great place to write-I wrote The Outlaw in there, I was trying to add a song to The Eagles' Desperado album.

The Outlaw

Don't trust a running man
a life out on the plains
beware the wanted man
with a price tag on his head
don't try to get too closeor look him in the face
don't try, they're words to the wise
you might get blown away

he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
and that's the way he'll stay
he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
until his dying day
he's an outlaw one foot on the run
the other in his grave

beware the just snubbed
fire smoldering at your feet
the cinders still are warm
leads one to believe
whoever left here
was in a real big hurry to leave
dusted tracks and twisted facts
left here to deceive

he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
that's the way he'll stay
he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
until his dying day
he's an outlaw
one foot on the run
the other in his grave

there was a train car rider
suspicious in his ways
he had those eyes of fire
giving nothin' away
he kept right to himself
all the way to Santa Fe
got off and met some dudes
and quickly rode away

he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
and that's the way he'll stay
he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
until his dying day
he's an outlaw
one foot on the run
the other in his grave

waiting ever silently behind a rock formation
sit the desperate men in anticipation
with angry hearts and souls
that show through on their faces
dead men tell no tales
and they don't leave no traces

he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
and that's the way he'll stay
he's an outlaw (he's an outlaw)
until his dying day
he's an outlaw
yea that's the way, that's the way of the outlaw
he's an outlaw
one foot on the run
the other in his grave
yea he's an outlaw
yea he's an outlaw