Hold Out Your Hand

I run a lot of miles, a life in crime of mountain climbs and quittin' times

Packin' that load of lyin' rhymes and tired jokes and wooden dimes

I've been everybody's friend, everybody's friend

I could lose my house, I could steal a car

I could serve two masters, livin' hard

Livin' like a dog in a cage in a yard with a fistful of cold, hard cash that I can't let go

The devil can't have my soul

The devil can't get your soul

The devil can't get your soul

Hold out your hand

Take hold of mine and then

'Round and 'round we go

Don't you wanna dance?

I'm a dying man

From the moment we began

Hold out your hand

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

A man comes around and the trumpet sounds

And his number calls and the moment he folds

In the haunted halls of man, he will understand

He will comprehend, he will not pretend, he will not pretend

When the rain don't fall and the river don't run

And the wind takes orders from the blazin' sun

And the devil don't break for the fiery snake

And you've had about as goddamn much as you can take

The devil don't take a break

That devil don't take a break

The devil don't take a break

Hold out your hand

Take hold of mine and then

'Round and 'round we go

Don't you wanna dance?

I'm a dying man

From the moment we began

Hold out your hand

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Well, he came to my door to sell me the fear

With some cameras and bullets and tension and here

A license for killin' your own native son

For a careless mistake and a fake plastic gun

Deliver your brother from violence and greed

For the mountains, lay down for your faith like a seed

A morning is coming of silver and light

There'll be color and language and nobody wanting to fight

What a glorious sight, what a glorious sight

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Hold out your hand

Take hold of mine and then

'Round and 'round we go

Don't you wanna dance?

I'm a dancing man

From the moment we began

Hold out your hand

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da

Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da