Dogtown Mines - Darren Smith

My riches in the hills of the Dogtown Mines

I planned to return in a few months' time

So when will you meet me as my bride?

But misfortunes fell down like a cold dark cloud

And all the road signs kept me rollin' further south

I broke down, cold, hungry I rode

Still it’s only you I long to hold

So I’m puttin' my luck to the test

I’m bringin' the eastern seaboard’s best

We’ll be makin' it up someday

Losin' time along the way

With all the heartache and lost souls that pushed me

The debts and devils in me

Always lookin' for the next wind to take me out

Through broken towns from the gold rush days

Faceless cities all set 'blaze

But in the darkest alleyways

Is where I’ll keep you pressed up to my heart

And good friends, they all kept me alive

Sayin' «No memory will spark them fires inside»

Like the moonshine, keep me dizzy,

in the cold southern sun warm my desperate soul

But the only letters that you sent, the ink on the page has a long since bled

And when I couldn’t keep my place,

Still time would not erase

All the heartache and lost souls that pushed me

The debts and devils in me

Always lookin' for the next wind to take me out

Yeah to take me out

Through broken towns from the gold rush days

Faceless cities all set 'blaze

But in the darkest alleyways

Is where I’ll keep you pressed up to my heart

Well it’s been a long time comin'

And all I have been to you is runnin'

I heard you wed the brother of a dear old friend

With your family, your newfound love with you til the end

You lost the battle fee arrival of your only child

In the middle of a winter storm, the wind howlin' wild

Now the sun is holding high all across your land

And I watch as a girl I knew plays in the sand

I see your eyes, your smile, your heart, in her sweet goodbyes

As she blows a kiss up towards the sky

She’s safe from the heartache and lost souls that pushed me

The debts and devils in me

Always lookin' for the next wind to take me out

Yeah to take me out

From broken towns to the gold rush days

Faceless cities all set 'blaze

But in the darkest alleyways

Is where I keep you pressed up to my heart

Is where I keep you pressed up to my heart