Wild West Lyrics - Joe Jackson

Out to the west there's a trail that leads somewhere 

And a call of the wild that takes some people there 

Through Monument Valley to California sun 

From New Amsterdam to the way the West was won 

Well years will go by when you won't get nowhere 

You're cold and you're tired and you're free and you don't care 

You keep pushin' on when your friends keep turning back 

You keep building towns and laying railroad track 

And things get crazy and you have to use that sun 

And you wonder if this is the way the West is won 

But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere 

'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to 

Gotta keep runnin' gotta be the best 

Gotta walk tall in the Wild West 

You keep on the move or you try to settle down 

And there's strangers from further and further away in town 

And you give them some tools and they know what must be done 

And you know the West was won 

And they say . . . 

Where I come from, you can't get nowhere 

I'm breaking my back for some opportunity 

Making my fortune and I'll take it all home 

Tell my kids about the Wild West 

And there's still beauty as the flowers bloom on desert sands 

And there's still hope as the sun rises over the Rio Grande 

But it's so crowded now and nothing's simple anymore 

And they're still knocking at your door 

You hear guns in the night and you hope they're not for you 

'Cause a dog eats a dog then he eats his master too 

In the land of the free and the not so often brave 

There's both love or money now choose which you will save 

But... keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere 

'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to 

Gotta keep runnin' gotta be the best 

Gotta walk tall in the Wild West