Run From the Light

Verse

I left El Paso under a moon without a face

The radio was whispering through a field of static haze

Past the county line the blacktop split like bone

And something in the rearview said I was not alone

The desert held its breath beneath a violet sky

A shape rose from the maysa where the dead stars lie

It had a thousand eyes and none of them were kind

I drove until the sunrise but it stayed behind

Chorus

Run, run, run from the light

Run, run, run through the night

That old sky is calling my name

That old sky is calling my name

No road runs far enough away

No prayer can keep the dark at bay

Run, run, run from the light

Before it takes your soul tonight

Verse

At a shuttered gas stop I found an old man pale

He said the thing had crossed the stars inside a burning trail

He drew a circle in the dust and begged me not to stare

Then vanished through the screen door like he never had been there

My headlights caught the canyon full of moving silver smoke

The mountains bent like paper and the midnight highway broke

I felt those thousand eyes beneath my skin and grin

And heard a voice say softly, boy, just let us in

Chorus

Run, run, run from the light

Run, run, run through the night

That old sky is calling my name

That old sky is calling my name

No road runs far enough away

No prayer can keep the dark at bay

Run, run, run from the light

Before it takes your soul tonight

Bridge

Now every motel mirror shows a stranger in my place

Every church bell sounds like thunder from the edge of space

If I make it to the morning I will never be the same

But the dawn is just another mouth that calls my name

Chorus

Run, run, run from the light

Run, run, run through the night

That old sky is calling my name

That old sky is calling my name

No road runs far enough away

No prayer can keep the dark at bay

Run, run, run from the light

Before it takes your soul tonight