Dave Alvin - Everett Reuss Lyrics
Dave Alvin(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI)I was born Everett RuessI been dead for sixty yearsI was just a young boy in my twentiesThe day I disappeared.Into the Grand Escalante BadlandsNear the Utah and Arizona lineAnd they never found my body, boysOr understood my mind.I grew up in CaliforniaAnd I loved my family and my homeBut I ran away to the High SierraWhere I could live free and alone.And folks said He's just another wild kidAnd he'll grow out of it in time,?But they never found my body, boysOr understood my mind.I broke broncos with the cowboysI sang healing songs with the NavajoI did the snake dance with the HopiAnd I drew pictures everywhere I go.Then I swapped all my drawings for provisionsTo get what I needed to get byAnd they never found my body, boysOr understood my mind.Well I hate your crowded citiesWith your sad and hopeless mobsAnd I hate your grand cathedralsWhere you try to trap God.Cause I know God is here in the canyonsWith the rattlesnakes and the pinon pinesAnd they never found my body, boysOr understood my mind.They say I was killed by a drifterOr I froze to death in the snowMaybe mauled by a wildcatOr I'm livin' down in Mexico.But my end, it doesn't really matterAll that counts is how you live your lifeAnd they never found my body, boysOr understood my mind.You give your dreams away as you get olderOh, but I never gave up mineAnd they'll never find my body, boysOr understand my mind.
