Nightrider 歌词

When the sun sets down and the shadows rise And the wind has wandered home And the song of sleep pulls on your eyes I shall set out alone Along the trapper's trail we'll trot Up to the timberline Through glow upon the snow that's brought Fluorescent by moonshine Across the snow-blue snowshoe flats Until the trail goes thin To check the line of coyote traps Along the rocky rim The rim where they each stop to cry Their sighs into the dark Across the valleys far and wide 'Tis winter's meadowlark And I can hear one calling now From somewhere further on So empty does it drift And how his chorus carries on The sound that sometimes even I Will welcome as a friend The mournful dead cold cry that sometimes Tests the wits of men Along the rim we wander By the light of stars and moon And time not ours to squander For the day is rising soon As here atop the palest ridge We stop to watch the dawn The glow above the Eastern Ledge Says soon the night is gone And gone am I Along the draw Before the shadows fade And confident that no one saw The midnight ride I made Just tracks along the trapper's trail And two coyotes less to wail © 1999 Red Cliffs Press Music (BMI)