Mustang Ridge

[Chorus]

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

If I ever make it out alive

If you don't see me by the risin' sun

You'll know I had to take the dive

When the hounds are runnin' down Oso Creek

Like Arabs on the track

I'll be halfway 'cross the southern horn

Too late for turnin' back

And if I die tonight on the Hays Street Bridge

I ain't never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

[Verse 1]

I got my knee on the wheel and I'm feelin' free

With my hobnail on the gas

I just crossed over the county line

Tryna make it up to Wild Rose Pass

Now the radio's sayin' all hell broke loose

This mornin' at the Lockhart Jail

Now I'm flyin' like an angel on a dead man's run

I got the devil ridin' on my tail

(Yeah, I do)

[Chorus]

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

If I ever make it out alive

If you don't see me by the risin' sun

You'll know I had to take the dive

When the hounds are runnin' down Oso Creek

Like Arabs on the track

I'll be halfway 'cross the southern horn

Too late for turnin' back

And if I die tonight on the Hays Street Bridge

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

[Verse 2]

Did you hear they found an old burnt-out car

Up in the Davis Hills?

And the Sheriff said on the evening news

"Nobody found, but they're lookin' still"

Now a woman's life ain't just a list

Of the worst things she has done

I leave you now with a heart of stone

Sometimes the past is hard to outrun

[Chorus]

Never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

If I ever make it out alive

If you don't see me by the risin' sun

You'll know I had to take the dive

When the hounds are runnin' down Oso Creek

Like Arabs on the track

I'll be halfway 'cross the southern horn

Too late for turnin' back

And if I die tonight on the Hays Street Bridge

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

[Outro]

And if I die tonight on the Hays Street Bridge, oh Lord

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

I'm never goin' back to Mustang Ridge

I ain't never goin' back to Mustang Ridge, no