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Lyrics for Across the Borderline
By Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickson

Ry Cooder and John Hyatt are no strangers to those who love the sensitive turn of phrase, the evocative rendering of the plight of third world immigrants struggling to fulfill a dream. It is their intimacy with broken dreams that lends such power to a simple lament.

There's a land where I've been told every street is paved with gold

And it's just across the borderline

When it's time to take your turn here's a lesson that you must learn

You could lose more than you'll ever find

 

When you reach the broken-promise land every dream slips through your hand

You'll know it's too late to change your mind

Cause you paid the price to come so far just to wind up where you are

And you're still just across the borderline

 

Up and down the Rio Grande a thousand footprints in the sand

Reveal the secret no one can define

The river flows on like a breath in between our life and death

Who's the next to cross the borderline

 

Hope remains when pride is gone and it keeps you moving on

Calling you across the borderline

When you reach the broken promiseland...

And you're still just across the borderline

 

To order the album or just to get in touch, e-mail Lou at lou@yeidel.co.uk

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Shining Armour Records
3/3 Silver Street
Hawick, Scotland
TD9 0AD

Song List

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Early Morning Rain
Bird On The Wire
Colorado Exile
Calico Silver
Across the Borderline
Cherokee Fiddle
Me and My Uncle
The Land of Plenty
Pancho and Lefty
Rain
Boys in the Band
Millworker
Late Show
In My Secret Life