Dark rider dark rider is crossing the plain gnawing at the dark pressing the rein living in the moment times goes fast. Don’t let ‘em catch that man in black. Fortune never outlasted riches and fame Punishment of living is the end all game trophy’s and hope and wasted breath. Press on your horse ride him to death The government came and stole his land Turned him from humble farmer to a wanted man went from godly to the devils right hand it’s the clay and what mixes that make a man layfette county and the dark rider fame leave no witness leave no shame what you do in the dark will not see light a dead man’s hand leaves a debt for life Dark rider dark rider come in from the cold your life in saddle is keeping you old. Your life is burning like the brush on hill come drink beer with the boys and have only TIME to kill you judge a man’s virtue from the price he’s paid restitution for a field of brown clay sweat and blood is price today man in black this judgement day No one will blame you for what you have done. The shame is the sentence life on the run protecting your castle And the tread they forebode . The man in black is all on his own Dark rider dark rider come in from the cold Out of the saddle back in to your home put away that cold steel and a life of gray never forget what the good book says Deep in the country on the atherton sibley road. Back in the corner There all alone. A simple stone for a complicated man with the courage and guts to take on the man Dark rider dark rider come in from the cold your life in saddle is keeping you old. Your life is burning like the brush on hill come drink beer with the boys and have only TIME to kill
