[Verse] Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road He walked lookin over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code When something caught his eye, hed measure his need And then very carefully hed proceed Billy met a young girl in the early days of May It was there in her arms, he let his cautiousness slip away In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim Hed lay back in her arms and laugh at what had happened to him On his right hand, Billyd tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear And in which hand he held his fate was never clear Come Indian summer, he took his young lover for his bride And with his own hands built her a great house down by the riverside Now Billy was an honest man, he wanted to do what was right He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving night Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness hed pray For he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin his wifes name She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles away He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode When he got there, he didnt find nothing but road Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldnt name Just as the words tattooed cross his knuckles he knew would always remain At their bedside, he brushed the hair from his wifes face as the moon shone on her skin so white Filling their room in the beauty of Gods fallen light
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