Out Among the Stars

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas
 Closing time, another day is done
 When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol
 He can't find a job, but Lord, he's found a gun
 He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation
 Then he lets the old man run out in the street
 Even though he knows they'll come with guns a-blazin'
 Already he can feel a great relief
 Oh, how many travelers get weary
 Bearing both their burdens and their scars?
 Don't you think they'd love to start all over
 And fly like eagles out among the stars?
 He pictured the arrival of the cruisers
 Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes
 He knows that when they're shootin' at this loser
 They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives
 Oh, how many travelers get weary
 Bearing both their burdens and their scars?
 Don't you think they'd love to start all over
 And fly like eagles out among the stars?
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 The evening news carried all the details
 He dies in every living room in town
 And in his own, a bottle is thrown in anger
 And his father cries, "We'll never live this down"
 Oh, how many travelers get weary
 Bearing both their burdens and their scars
 Don't you think they'd love to start all over
 And fly like eagles out among the stars?
 And fly like eagles out among the stars?