The Kid
Ben Nichols * Track #2 On The Last Pale Light in the West
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The Kid by Ben Nichols
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This song, like the other songs on the album “The Last Pale Light in the West” is inspired by and about Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 book, “Blood Meridian.
This song is about the book’s main Character, referred to as only “The Kid” who joins up with a scalp-hunting gang in the 1840s as they ride through...
The Kid Lyrics
Your mother died night you were born
Her name you never knew
Look away, look away
Nothing to lose
Left East Tennessee at fourteen
Wandered to the West
Look away, look away
Born into death
You fought the sailors in New Orleans
You worked the flatboats and walked the streets
Hit Nacogdoches in 49
There you saw the devil, for the very first time
Kid don't you know me?
We are the last of the true
Drink up! Drink up!
Drink up! Drink up!
Cause tonight your soul's required of you
Signed on with a stone mad captain
Rode on Mexico
Look away, Look away
War behold
Jailed with killers one and all
But we were killers free
Look away, Look away
Look to me
You saw the lancers mid heathen hordes
Bloodstained veils and costumes of war
Hell ain't half full boy hear me
War is the game and the god we seek
We set out as men of reason
Armed with Navy Colts
Look away, Look away
Work paid in gold
But you stood witness to yourself
Our trial you did betray
Look away, look away
To judgment day
We killed in the desert we killed in the streets
We chose what shall and shall not be
We stood with pistols, fought back to back
Now you've stood your ground but what ground is that?