Story Behind The Song

Just watching the evening talking heads with all the black and white takes on the issues, prompted this one.

Song Description

I realize there are two sides to a pancake. All is not as simple as it seems.

Lyrics

Across The Rio Grande

I've walked what seems forever
But I've got so far to go
The sun beats down upon me
And my body's aching so

Northward ever Northward
Toward the promise land
And tonight if no one stops me
I'll cross the Rio Grande

I need food upon the table
There's nothing here to eat
I've got clothes upon my body
But no shoes upon my feet

I see my future brighter
As I cross the shifting sand
Toward the riches flowing
Across the Rio Grande

I've toiled and I've struggled
Just to keep my family fed
But the babies cry from hunger
And my wife's been two years dead

So it's toward the land of plenty
Where they need the hired hand
I'll seek my family's fortune
Across the Rio Grande

For many days I've traveled
For many nights I've cried
But I can see my future
Across the other side

The old ones tried to tell me
How they'll shoot me where I stand
Said tonight there'll be blood flowing
Across the Rio Grande

In the moonlight water's flowing
And cooling breezes blow
But I'm thinking of my family
And how I miss them so

Now I'm wading in the water
And as I reach the foreign land
I don't see the shadows lurking
Across the Rio Grande

I hear the children laughing
I hear the angels sing
But I don't hear the gunshots
And I don't feel a thing



I see darkness only darkness
Across the promise land
Cos tonight my blood is flowing
Into the Rio Grande



There's no promise of a future
And no memory of today
Just the cold dead silence
As tomorrow fades away

I came to make things better
And I just don't understand
Why must my blood be flowing
Into the Rio Grande