Border Guards

[Verse 1]
This hot and dusty road
Is where all things fall apart
You were my sleepy waitress
In this vacant trailer park
On a calm March night
They left their drunken shouts behind
And carried you away
To find work, a better life

[Verse 2]
I hear the stars talking
From the tin roof of my home
Placing bets on the emigrants
On how far they might go
I wonder where you stay
Are you out there all alone?
We can dance without a mask
Just come back from where you've gone

[Verse 3]
I wonder where you are
Did you ever make it through?
The desert was a curse
Lying still in wait for you
There's a coldness where you walked
And a silence in my yard
How could I not meet you now?
Goddamn the border guards

[Outro]
Goddamn the border guards
Goddamn the border guards