High and Lonesome

I've been a foolish man longer than I can recall See my name chiseled deep into those dark cave walls So many memories that I cannot control Keep the fuse too short and the order too tall That gold deep in the rock sings me a lullaby If you'd only dug deeper, we'd be together tonight I'm rollin' one last smoke to sit by the firelight I'm high and lonesome, and the desert's too quiet I have a dream sometimes of leadin' my mules into town Their backs sloped and broken under the lode I've found Get me some rye, get me some women, get me the big shot now Get me out of this graveyard livin', deep in the ground That gold deep in the rock sings me a lullaby If you'd only dug deeper, we'd be together tonight I'm rollin' one last smoke to sit by the firelight I'm high and lonesome, and the desert's too quiet I'm high and lonesome, and the desert's too quiet