Great Divide

We still listen to high school football

On the radio in West Texas

Lights to shine bright every Friday night

And you can drive ninety miles an hour

Down the highway straight to ' Cisco

The cops are at the ball game, they're getting tight

And the sky gets wider and wider

It disappear like the day

Into the great divide you fade away

And it's another world all together

Right in the middle of God's country

Smells like money, smells like shit

Yeah, it smells like hell

But when the cattle's all together

And the pump jacks all are moving

And the [cartons] are in blooming

It smells like nothing else

And the sky gets wider and wider

Just like a brand new day

Out in the great divide you fade away

It's the land of my people

My dream is come out here to find a bigger piece of sky

It's all the winners and all the losers

Real good people but just like you and I

Hey, but nothing's really changed much

As you drive on down at twenty

Mexicans still work out in the field

But everybody's dirty

Man they're all a bunch of gamblers

But some got rich

Yeah, but they're gamblers still

And the sky gets wider and wider

The day's gonna be your day

Out in the great divide you fade away

And it's the land of my people

My dream is come out here to find a bigger piece of sky

It's all the winners and all the losers

Real good people but just like you and I

We still listen to high school football

On the radio in West Texas

Lights to shine bright every Friday night