Cat Empire - Voodoo Cowboy lyrics

His mother was a snake His father was a scarecrow Born in the desert with his hat on his head Never missed a shot, sharp as a pharaoh Tequila in the sunrise, the desert was his bed Now he could dance the barn dance Like nobody before him But no woman would take him 'Cause his eyes were rather strange In them you could see the emptiness of the desert Yellow like a scarecrow Black like a snake He was a voodoo cowboy And he had never found a girl to call his own On and on and on that lonely cowboy But a cowboy's never really Cowboy's never really alone, really alone He had a horse whose name was Plenty And they saw things no man or beast should ever seen Out in the redness, out in the empty Where ghosts and spirits walk around like you and me He met a girl called Annabelle And she was just the prettiest thing he'd ever seen Under a lake at the edge of the world He met a girl, walking through the edges of his dreams Because you see, he was a voodoo cowboy And he was following a psychedelic stream On and on and on, that lonely cowboy But a cowboy's never really Cowboy's never really deceived, really deceived So they rode down under the water And the sunset made a fire above his head In search of warmth, in search of love In search of Heaven above But all he felt was cold and all he touched was wet But he could see her down a little bit deeper And all he wanted was to hold her to his chest So he reached out and she reached out And he touched her and she drew him in And kissed him as he breathed his final breath Because you see, he was a voodoo cowboy And he had finally found a girl to call his own On and on and on, lucky lucky cowboy Because cowboy's almost always Cowboy's almost always die alone, die alone They die alone, they die alone