Great Divide Songtext
von Jack Ingram

They still listen to high school football
On the radio in West Texas
The lights still shine bright every Friday night
And you can drive ninety miles an hour
Down the highway straight through Cisco
The cops are at the ball game
They′re getting tight

And the sky gets wider and wider
You disappear like the day
Into the Great Divide
You fade away


And it's another world altogether
Out in the middle of God′s country
Smells like money
Smells like shit
Yeah, it smells like hell
But when the cattle's all together
And the pumpjacks all are moving
And the cotton's all in bloom
Man, it smells like nothing else

And the sky gets wider and wider
Just like a brand new day
Out in the Great Divide
You fade away

It′s the land of my people
Dreamers come out here to find a bigger piece of sky
It′s all the winners and all the losers
Real good people, just like you and I

Yeah, but nothing's really changed much
As you drive on down I-20
Mexicans still work out in the fields
And everybody′s dirty
Man, they're all a bunch of gamblers
Some got rich
Yeah, but they′re gamblers still

And the sky gets wider and wider
Today's gonna be your day
Out in the Great Divide
You fade away


It′s the land of my people
Dreamers come out here to find a bigger piece of sky
It's all the winners and all the losers
Real good people, just like you and I

They still listen to high school football
On the radio in West Texas
The lights still shine bright every Friday night