El Paso City

From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor, I see it there below

A city with a legend, the West Texas city of El Paso

Where long ago I heard a song about a Texas cowboy and a girl

And a little place called Rosa's

Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl

I don't recall who sang the song, but I recall the story that I heard

And as I look down on the city, I remember each and every word

The singer sang about a jealous cowboy and the way he used a gun

To kill another cowboy, then he had to leave El Paso on the run

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande

The cowboy lived and rode away, but love was strong, he couldn't stay

He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande

I try not to let you cross my mind

But still I find there's such a mystery in the song

That I don't understand

My mind is down there somewhere as I fly above the badlands

Of New Mexico

I can't explain why I should know

The very trail he rode back to El Paso

Can it be that man can disappear from life and live another time?

And does the mystery deepen 'cause

You think that you yourself lived in that other time?

Somewhere in my deepest thoughts

Familiar scenes and memories unfold

These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long

But I have never told

Like every time I fly up through the heavens and I see you there below

I get the feeling sometime, in another world, I lived in El Paso

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande

Could it be that I could be the cowboy in this mystery

That died there in that desert sand so long ago?

El Paso City, by the Rio Grande

The voice tells me to go and see, another voice keeps tellin' me

Maybe death awaits me in El Paso

El Paso City