Across the border they turn
Water into wine
Some
say it's the devil's blood
They're squeezing from the vine
Some say it's a
saviour
In these hard and desperate times
For me it helps me to
forget
That we're just born to die
I came here like so many did
To
find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
To finally be
alive
And I know nothing good comes easy
And all good things take some
time
I made my bed I'll lie in it
To die in it's the crime
You
can't help but prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the
oil wells ran deeper here
than anybody's known
I packed up on my wife and
kid
And left them back at home
Now there's nothing in this
paydirt
The ghosts are all I know
Now the oil's gone
The money's
gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hangin' on
Down in dry
county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash
the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run
dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive
In
the blessed name of Jesus
I heard a preacher say
That we are God's
children
And He'd be back someday
And I hoped that he knew
Something as
he drank his cup of wine
I didn't have too good of a feeling
As I head out
to the night
I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for
rain
I prayed to God for water
For this burning in my veins
It was like
my soul's on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in
ashes
And my future blew away
Now the oil's gone
And the money's
gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hangin' on
Down in dry
county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash
the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run
dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive
Men
spend their whole lives
Waiting praying for their big reward
But it seems
sometimes
The payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could
choose the way I'll die
Make it by the gun or knife
'Cause the other way
there's too much pain
Night after night after night
Down in dry
county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash
the sins from off our hand
Here in dry county
The promise has run
dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive