(crickets chirping) (soft instrumental music) ♪ Amarillo mid-afternoon ♪ Sky's filled with a memory of a girl ♪ ♪ Twirling in a J.C. Penny's dress ♪ ♪ In a tri-state rodeo ♪ You and I, Jim, sipping ♪ Pounders of Coors Light ♪ Taking turns of the best of that girl's night ♪ ♪ As the sound of cicadas rises above us ♪ ♪ Friends ♪ They went off to college ♪ Amarillo ♪ And we ♪ Found work ♪ Out on the Llano ♪ Estacado (soft acoustic guitar music) ♪ Autumn felt like a distant moon ♪ ♪ Winter blanched out red as the afternoon work ♪ ♪ Pulling yards of barbed wire across a potter's field ♪ ♪ Pay was decent, well ♪ Enough to afford ♪ An Omnibus and five months in Guadalajara ♪ ♪ Chasing the phantoms of our youth ♪ ♪ Through an arroyo blacked out with rain ♪ ♪ A wet flask of mescal in my pocket ♪ ♪ Pockets of bone-blue moon in the rain ♪ ♪ I don't wanna go through life on my own ♪ (instrumental continues) (instrumental intensifies) (acoustic guitar riff begins) (slide guitar riff begins) (slide guitar riff intensifies) (instrumental softens) ♪ Nowadays I drift from coast to coast ♪ ♪ Great plain to staked plain ♪ Chasing the oil plays ♪ As a rigger for a company out of Dallas ♪ ♪ Two weeks on ♪ Then two weeks off ♪ Two weeks spent chasing a friend, Amarillo ♪ ♪ You coiled and carried him away ♪ ♪ Amarillo ♪ You coiled and carried him away ♪ (crickets chirping)