[00:50.63]On a day like any other day [00:53.64]Pavement turning red [00:56.44]Johnny laid down in the alleyway [00:59.62]Died with a song in his head [01:02.89]A long [01:03.24]Long way from springhill [01:04.73]In an unforgiving game [01:09.13]Came by with an eye for the spotlights looking for a [01:12.72]Place to make a name [01:15.25]So risk all or don't risk anything [01:18.57]You can lose all the same [01:34.69]Johnny hit town on a windy day [01:37.67]One morning in the fall [01:40.38]Couldn't smell the grass or the trees for the paper mill [01:43.43]Just another job and that was all [01:47.05]Every night looks like the next one [01:49.91]Every hotel in every town [01:52.97]Maybe in a smile he found variety [01:56.19]With a little rye to wash it down [01:59.29]When he played he was an animal [02:02.97]With a bow and roving eye [02:05.61]Moving like a man undone [02:07.78]Incredible [02:09.16]Couldn't win but he could try [02:12.29]That night he played like a warrior [02:15.47]Like he never had before [02:18.33]Maybe they were songs about a better life [02:21.82]Than the one he'd settled for [02:23.94]And by the time the night took johnny [02:27.94]He'd won his soul but lost a war [02:50.57]Followed him out to the alleyway [03:15.57]With a blade he was taken down [03:36.86]He died so far from home and family [03:42.64]In an unfamiliar town [03:45.72]That night the sky had an open eye [03:48.98]He was left there in the rain [03:52.15]It washed his life to the shadows [03:54.87]Before he even made a stain [03:58.10]Johnny took his last bow running [04:00.89]And never picked up a bow again