Black Cowboys-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Black Cowboys(Album Version)] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:Devils & Dust] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black Cowboys - Bruce Springsteen [00:04.66]Raney William's playground was among Haven's streets [00:08.73]Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths [00:12.66]Names and photos of the young black faces [00:16.91]Whose death and blood consecrated these places [00:19.98]Raney's mother said Raney stay at my side [00:27.94]For you are my blessing you are my pride [00:32.44]It's your love here that keeps my soul alive [00:36.63]I want you to come home from school and stay inside [00:42.26]Raney'd do his work and put his books away [00:47.32]There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday [00:51.57]And that brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range [00:56.07]The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains [01:02.69]Summer come and the days grew long [01:07.82]Raney always had his mother's smile to depend on [01:12.50]Along the street of stray bullets he made his way [01:16.57]To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day [01:26.57]Come the Fall the rain flooded these homes [01:30.57]In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones [01:34.94]It fell hard and dark to the ground [01:39.26]It fell without a sound [01:42.76]And they took up with a man whose business was the boulevard [01:47.45]Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard [01:52.20]In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets are kept [01:56.63]In the day behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he slept [02:04.76]And she got lost in the days [02:08.38]The smile Raney depended on dusted away [02:10.26]The arms that held him were no more his own [02:17.01]Bones [02:29.66]In the kitchen Raney slipped his hand between the pipes [02:33.54]From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side [02:38.60]Stood in the dark at his mother's bed [02:42.41]Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes [02:48.79]In the twilight Raney walked to the station on streets of stone [02:52.91]Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on [02:56.16]Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept [03:01.35]As he lay his head back on his seat and slept [03:06.48]He woke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green [03:12.48]Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between [03:16.79]Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone [03:21.23]The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone