Calexico - Casey'S Last Ride lyrics

With Marianne Dissard

Words and music by Kris Kristofferson

From Nothing Left To Lose - A Tribute To Kris Kristofferson

Casey joins the hollow sound

Of silent people walking down

The stairway to the subway

In the shadows down below

Following their footsteps

Through the neon-darkened corridor

Silent desperation

Never speaking to a soul

The poison air he is breathing

Has the dirty smell of dye

Cause it's never seen the sunshine

And it's never felt the rain

But casey minds the arrows

And ignores the fatal echoes

Of the clickin' of the turnstiles

And the rattle of his chains

Oh, she said,

Casey, it's been so long

Since I seen you

Here, she said

Just a kiss to make a body smile

See, she said

I put on new stockings just to please you

Lord, she said

Casey can you only stay a while?

Casey leaves the underground

And stops inside the golden crown

For something wet to wipe away

The chill that's on his bone

Seeing his reflection

In the lives of all the lonely men

Who reach for anything they can

To keep from going home

Standing in the corner

Casey drinks his pint of bitter

Never glancing in the mirror

At the people passing by

And he stumbles as he's leaving

And he wonders if the reason

Is the beer that's in his belly

Or the tear that's in his eye

Oh, she said

I suppose you seldom think about me

Now, she said

Now that you've a family of your own

Still, she said

It's so blessed good to feel your body

Lord, she said