[00:01.80]Artist:lyle lovett [00:03.11]Songs Title:natural forces [00:05.05] [00:14.80]I rode across the great high plain [00:17.55] [00:19.86]Under the scorching sun and through the driving rain [00:22.49] [00:25.55]And then I set my sights on the mountains high [00:28.18] [00:31.11]I bid my former life good-bye [00:32.25] [00:36.91]So thank you man, I must decline [00:42.35] [00:43.10]For it's on my steed I will rely [00:48.79] [00:49.85]I'm underneath the open sky [00:56.42]Where I'm subject to the natural forces [01:00.91]Home is where my horse is [01:03.10] [01:07.98]Loaded up in Buffalo [01:11.54] [01:13.16]Took the 90 southbound to Ohio [01:17.23] [01:19.04]On any western Frisco bound [01:20.99] [01:25.17]And when I get there I'll turn back around [01:29.24] [01:30.18]So thank you man, I must decline [01:35.62] [01:36.36]For it's on these eighteen wheels I ride [01:42.20] [01:43.14]I'm underneath the Western sky [01:49.95]Where I'm subject to the natural forces [01:54.57]Home is where my horse is [01:57.24] [02:00.93]And every year they come to town [02:04.74] [02:06.49]And they'll drag them all right in the ground [02:12.74]And Mr. Bradley calls the score [02:15.86] [02:18.24]But the cowboy he will try for more [02:20.49] [02:23.55]So thank you man, I must decline [02:29.68]For it's on my freer road I'll ride [02:34.62] [02:35.99]And I'll spin and run and stop and slide [02:40.74] [02:42.93]I'm subject to the natural forces [02:46.43] [02:47.05]Home is where my horse is [02:49.12] [03:19.37]The Cherokee and the Chickasaw [03:23.18] [03:24.30]The Creeks and the Nou and the old Choctaw [03:27.81] [03:29.99]They volunteered to move they say [03:33.87] [03:35.62]We'll understand come judgement day [03:41.99]So thank you man, I must decline [03:45.68] [03:47.31]For it's on this Trail of Tears I ride [03:53.31] [03:54.25]And I'm under all the homeless sky [03:59.56] [04:00.37]Sometimes at night I hear their voices [04:05.49]Home is where my horse is [04:08.24] [04:12.12]Now as I sit here safe at home [04:15.56] [04:17.68]With a cold Coors Light and the tv on [04:21.31] [04:23.37]All the sacrifice and the death and woe [04:27.93] [04:28.93]Lord I pray that I'm worth fighting for [04:32.37] [04:34.87]So thank you man, I must decline [04:38.56] [04:41.31]For it's on my own BG I ride [04:46.81] [04:47.94]'Til earth and hell are satisfied [04:52.01] [04:54.07]Where I'm subject to the natural forces [04:58.14] [05:00.01]Sometimes at night I hear their voices [05:05.57]Home is where my horse is [05:07.76] [05:10.57]Home is where my horse is