We started out fine…driving south to the border.
Miles of landscape ‒ bare as bones.
But it all fell apart when we were stopped at the border.
Son todas menores, es illegal.
Get out of our town. Get out of our town.
No eres bien venido aquí.
Filled with doubt and disillusion.
We left the Border Town and headed back to the coast.
The Old Road led us up into the mountains,
Then dropped down through the gaps, to the desert floor
People die in this desert, he said. People die in this desert.
La gente ha muerto en el desierto
We drove in a daze, into a lost world. We drove straight into the land of trickery.
El Camino del Diablo El Camino del Muerto. The Devil’s Highway, comin after me
And it began to snow, it began to snow. It began to snow. It began to snow
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The sky turned white and left us cold as ice.
The markers on the road disappeared and left us flying blind.
‘This is a dead world,’ he cried. ‘What are we doing here…it’s all your fault.’
I turned to him and said, ‘Hey, we’ll be alright’.
There’s a beautiful intimacy when you are lying to each other
There’s a beautiful intimacy when yer lost.
There’s a beautiful intimacy when you think you’re dying together.
Un rastro del olvido eterno.
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Then, out of the storm, flashed a neon sign. A Holy Moses burning bush of a neon sign.
Hot Springs Hotel, only half a mile ahead. We’ve been saved, Jesu Christo, we’ve been
saved.
El Camino del Diablo, El Camino del Muerto
Your highway is paved with broken lives.
El Camino del Diablo, El Camino del Muerto
The mystery of your evil still survives.