Song Lyrics - Cold Tequila Rain

1.  Road Train ©1998

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Sun rose on the desert like the fumes on gasoline

And I just drove a 1000 miles with nowhere in between

Radio keeps sayin…there’s a roadblock up ahead

But this rig ain’t ever stoppin’ ‘till they peel it from my hands

Chorus:

I’ve been riding high where no one knows my name

Ain’t no looking back behind that diesel’s scream

Better hold you hat and step back from the flame

You ain’t stopping a road train

Papa said "You better learn to watch you temper son."

But I just never knew how it was I would come undone

I heard them engines moanin’ back when I turned 17

Once I hit the highway, I ain’t never been the same

Chorus

Left my girl in Darwin for this job in Adelaide

Told her I’d be coming back the next time I got paid

Truth is I don’t know what I might find on down the line

It could be fame and fortune or I could be doing time

But…

Chorus

You ain’t stopping a road train….

2. Gringo Perdido ©1996                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

San Miguel Allende

Is the heart of Mexico

The cobble streets will pull you in

And the church will steal your soul

I wandered in a gringo

With intentions to stay single

But some Spanish words have seemed to change my mind...

I met her al mercado

Selling stuffed armadillos

I said cuanto cuesta

She said not much at all

How's about we make a deal

That makes us feel as if we're real

Tomame mano, leave your heart behind

Chorus:

Some call me Gringo

And to strangers I'm perdido

But I'm really just an hombre lost in love

At the hobo cafe

We crossed borders and met half way

She said you speak broken spanish well

I said I speak it perfectly

Well how's about you and me

Makin' love out under sapote trees

Take my hand and salga corazon

Chorus

Yeah some call me gringo

And to strangers I'm perdido

But I'm really just an hombre lost in love

Another loco hombre

Estoy un loco hombre lost in love

3. Cold Tequila Rain ©1998                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

I'm not going 'cross the border anymore

I'll wind up doing all the things I've done before

You think you know me, well you haven't seen a thing

Until you wake up in that cold tequila rain

Carlos Garza knows my name behind the bar

He'll fix me drinks - I'll drop some money in his jar

A dark eyed angel knows what I'm looking for

She takes my hand and leads me through the door

Chorus:

A lightnin's flashin' on a hill in Mexico

The devil's stokin' up the fire me I know

Mamma save me, I hang my head in shame

Your boy is drownin' in a cold tequila rain

Sweet Maria runs her fingers through my hair

Me quiere? Why would she even care

Soft and calloused, she lives this life of sin

I know I'm not the first to lay upon her skin

Chorus

I'm not going 'cross that border anymore

I live my life by the bible in the drawer

I pray to Jesus to wash away my pain

And run for cover from that cold tequila rain

4. Free Feeling Cowboy ©1996                (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

If I wrote you a song...

Well it wouldn't be too long...

Cause I never liked ya too much anyway

Well my tears are not wasted on mourning

And my mind never thinks of loneliness

Its a high yippie song

Yippie hoorah now you're gone

I'll never compromise another day

Chorus:

Oh I'm a free feelin' , heart stealin' cowboy

Servin' up my life on a silver plate

Beer and malt liquor

Won't ever make me sicker

Than the way you used to gripe about your weight

Well my mornings are silent and peaceful

And my razor never seems to lose it's edge

Goodbye cotton balls

And the crap hung on the walls

Welcome to the new age bachelor pad

Chorus

Ya' know things have been really good since we parted

The void you left has made my life complete

From my new dresser drawers

To my new interior

I'm lifted up just like my toilet seat

Chorus

5. Willard Borough ©1996                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Lying face down on the side of the road

Were the pickled remains of one Willard Borough

He died 33 but he looked 55

Once king of the cowboys on the 4th of July

I remember him well at the Bell County fair

The band pattered dixie as he rode on the mare

The men they applauded, the women all screamed

Seemed less like a rodeo and more like a dream

Chorus:

And he signed his name

In my magazine

He rode the bulls

Loved some rodeo queens

Memories grow faded like old photographs

And I got a picture with me in his lap

Well he was tougher than luck on the back of a bull

Rolled Winston tobacco and drank like a fool

Danced with the ladies swept off their feet

Then shuffle a waltz to a slow Texas beat

Chorus

Time takes a toll on a body and mind

Old Willard grew older, but his heart stayed behind

Whiskey took preference to numb all the pain

And the smoke from the bars cast a haze on his brain

The stories grow bigger

They get full of lies

But you can't hide the truth of a man in his eyes

Died 33 but he looked 55

Once king of the cowboys on the 4th of July

Chorus

Oh lying face down on the side of the road

Died a hero of cowboys - Willard Borough

6. Catch the Wind ©1998                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Catch the wind arisin' on that starboard inbound wave

See the long horizon where not many dare to brave

Feel the water, slip between my toes

Lord its all I've ever known

Chorus:

I love the ocean, but it's too much on my own...

I think it's time, I'm comin' home

Once I knew a lady that would take me by the hand

Make me wild and crazy in those ways I understand

If I could get back, well I'd be there in her arms

But this damned old fools just livin' yarns

Chorus

Sailin' in the harbour, I see a light out on the beach

I know she's out there waiting, she's just within my reach

I'll drop the anchor and batten down the hatch

I think this time I'm gonna last

Chorus

...Lord it's good to be back home

7. Heard About You ©1998                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Picked my bags up off the floor

Won't be coming 'round here no more

Left the keys in the kitchen door

I guess it's finally through

Headed somewhere down the road

Rolled a smoke...skipped a stone

Cussed myself, I should've known

But what was I do?

Chorus:

I heard about you

I heard about you

Over my head and out of my shoes

You played me for a fool

I heard about you

I heard about you

Out of my mind, wastin' my time

And all along I knew

I do you right, you do me wrong

I turned my head and you were gone

You cut the thread I was hangin' on

Yeah, you were never true

Living ain't an easy game

Love you was just the same

You looked at me and I went insane

But what was I to do? You see...

Chorus

Somewhere in the distance

The train came off the track

I come to my senses

I'm never lookin' back

Chorus

8. No Words To Say ©1996                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

One and One it does make two

So babe I guess that means we're through

Startin' over goes nowhere

When you're startin' out in different squares.

It seems our thinkin's not the same

Where I see sun you see rain

And rain can wash my tears away

But it can't bring back yesterday.

Chorus:

No need to talk about it

No need to fight about it

No words to say

We'll go our separate ways  

Time can take you to your fall

Time can let you see it all

Through all the secrets and the lies

There was no time for goodbyes

Chorus

So I'll just pack up my bags

Throw in all the good we had

Send it to some lonely place

And Disappear without a trace

Chorus

One and one it does make two

So babe I guess that means we're through

9. Jesus T-Shirt ©1996                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Me and a friend and his T-shirt of Jesus

Went for a drink at the bar

After our 5th round

He had to sit down

And Jesus weren't going too far

So I asked him of Jesus

The eternal message

And what it was I should do

He said I was sinnin’ and should heed his warnin’

And burped and said Jesus loves you

Chorus:

Well your T-Shirt of Jesus

Won't keep you from sinning

Sober your drinkin'

Or keep you from women

Its worn to remind you

That he died to save you

And heaven can be bought and sold

I noticed a girl with a T-shirt of Jesus

Holding a sign in her hand

Said protest abortion

Obey the lords message

Clearly you don't understand

So I asked of her purity romance and chastity

Saving herself for one man

She looked at me angrily

Jesus forgives me

And shoved a brochure in my hand

Chorus

I'm lookin for answers

To livin' a good life

The truth I try not to pervert

But all I can find

A la bookstore divine

Is a tight fittin' Jesus T-Shirt

Chorus

10.  The Train ©1996                  (Back to Songlist)

Words and music by W. Boone Law

Published by Lawless Music, ASCAP

Got aboard a train

Bound for Mexico

Ticket to my name

And a satchel of pesos

Got into a game

With a man I never knew

Could tell by the veins 'round his pistol

Meant we're through

Hit the cabin dead

Before he ever even thought

Filled him full of lead

'fore he ever popped a shot

Chorus:

Whatcha gonna do

When the tracks come to an end?

Where ya gonna go?

When you're lost in Mexico

Where ya gonna hide?

When the federals arrive

You better hit that desert runnin' like a train

Rode to a town

That I've never even been

Shot it upside down

When the men in grey came in

Three on the ground

Two in the street

No one around

Ever saw me even blink

Chorus

On a canyon edge

I overlook the Rio Grande

Give the go ahead

Gallop to the mother land

Hear a thunder crack

When I hit the Texas side

Bullet in the back

On those bloody shores I die

Chorus