Out Among The Stars Lyrics - Out Among The Stars - Johnny Cash

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas 

Closing time another day is done 

When a boy walked in the door and points a pistol 

He can't find a job, but Lord, he's found a gun 

He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation 

That he lets the old man run out in the street 

Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing 

Already he can feel that great relief 

Oh, how many travelers get weary 

Bearing both their burdens and their scars 

Don't you think they'd love to start all over 

And fly like eagles out among the stars? 

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He pictures the arrival of the cruisers 

Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes 

He knows that when they're shooting at this loser 

They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives 

Oh, how many travelers get weary 

Bearing both their burdens and their scars 

Don't you think they'd love to start all over 

And fly like eagles out among the stars? 

The evening news carried all the details 

He dies in every living room in town 

In his own a bottle's thrown in anger 

And his father cries, he'll never live this down 

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Oh, how many travelers get weary 

Bearing both their burdens and their scars 

Don't you think they'd love to start all over 

And fly like eagles out among the stars? 

Oh, how many travelers get weary 

Bearing both their burdens and their scars 

Don't you think they'd love to start all over 

And fly like eagles out among the stars?