[00:16.29]Raise your can of beer on high
[00:19.50]And seal your fate forever
[00:22.14]Our best years have past us by
[00:25.77]The golden age of leather
[00:30.03]This was the night not long to come
[00:33.81]In the year of our lord a d
[00:36.81]Where in a desert way house poised on the brink of eternity
[00:40.98]Four and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor
[00:46.89]As only drunken soldiers can
[00:54.15]And passed from man to man
[00:57.66]A wanton child to dead to care
[01:21.51]That each would find his pleasure as he might
[01:23.91]For this fantastic night was billed
[01:28.17]As nothing less than the end of an age
[01:29.94]A last crusade
[01:30.84]A final outrage
[01:31.32]In this day of flaccid plumage
[01:34.80]And there was worn no cloth but leather
[01:38.19]Made supple by years of stinging cinders
[01:40.56]And here were seen the scars of age
[01:43.41]For age had been the common call for one last night together
[01:50.73]Dawn colored the sky the ritual ceased
[01:57.96]Some had died they were buried with their bikes
[02:24.75]Each grabbed a rag from a man with a sack
[02:27.84]Torn strips of color the red and the black
[02:31.41]I cam here willingly
[02:33.51]And I will go down valiantly
[02:34.68]We made a vow
[02:35.01]To give it all we had to give
[02:35.91]We made a vow
[02:36.42]To die as we had lived
[02:38.28]They flew the colors they began to fight
[02:39.72]They flailed at each other like bugs at a light
[02:41.34]Bodies and bikes beyond repair
[02:43.17]Smell of oil and gas in the air
[02:45.66]Then the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand
[02:47.49]And the humans and the harleys caught the shifting sand
[02:51.06]The old ranger weathered the storm
[02:55.08]And he topped the rise by the middle of morn
[02:58.65]He saw rippled dunes
[02:59.79]Calm and surreal
[03:01.23]And a glint of a solitary shaft of chromium steel
[03:04.86]Golden age