Maybe on Another One — Two adults wait on opposite rail platforms as separate trains and translucent future paths branch through a bright Central Valley sky

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Maybe on Another One

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Explore this song from the Douglas Heyes Jr. collection.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A narrator assuming the identity of Doc Holliday moves through gunfights, outlaw names and lives that seem to repeat across time. Boasts about survival sit beside reluctance to kill and the knowledge that death keeps following. Spiritual language and a promise of reunion push against the violent story he cannot leave behind.

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Maybe on Another One

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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Maybe on another one

Maybe on another one Fire Glow and midnight Sun 10 more lifetimes on the run I guess I get another one. Maybe on another one here and now the Rising Sun live by the sword die by the gun I never wanted to kill anyone

I live to serve the sacred word doesn’t matter what you’ve heard if I’m a stranger then you are a friend bitter winds better ends more like you than you may know a traveler bound for Jericho braided hair and burning feet while the village is asleep

I came here from long ago What year that was I sure don’t know in between a teenage dream and a Roadhouse down in Abilene I was barely 17 in love with a beauty queen when the sheriff came around and force my hand to a showdown

They called me Doc Holliday 7 outlaws in my way

Steel and Stone bloody bones

Live too free and die alone

Tomorrow when you’ve come and gone

One more hard-line country song

All the cards you took along

Jokers gunning, all long gone

If you hear me, sing along

Something so right can’t be wrong

After midnight it all comes down

Clanton boys ride into town

High noon at OK Corral

Another Sunday bacchanal

Shootout in the noonday Sun

Put those killers in the ground

Then almost without a sound

Cries and whispers all around

Coming up from underground

When at last the smoke did clear

Time we best get out of here

Dodge saloon to have a beer

Trigger fingers, raging fear

That's the way it all came down

When the devil came to town

All too many souls to save

Seven outlaws in the grave

Walked away, off down Main Street

Killer hungry need to eat

Blistered hands and burning feet

Secrets kept; so indiscreet

Seven horses seven men

Death can be your own best friend

Waits for you around the bend

Maybe on another one

Some bright sunshiny day

Where the folks can laugh and sing

Let the children play

Sadly though it's not to be

At least not for today

Seven dead men dragged away

Nobody came out to pray

If you hear my name again

I'm Doc Holliday

Fastest gun of anyone

That ever came to play

Dealing lead till you are dead

If you dare get in my way

I'll put you down into the ground

And there you're going to stay

One more thing that you should know back on the road to Jericho blood turning to cherry wine salvation in the nick of time but just like sand and blood and Steel bony hand upon your back Waits for You just down the track

Maybe on another one another lonely day when all the ghosts and fandoms seem to vanish in the gray and you and I must say goodbye before our dying day I promise to find you again when the devil gets in the way

Now there ain't no turning back

No safety in a railroad shack

Freight train coming down the track

Your future in a mail sack

Come on children, gather round

Listen up, don't make a sound

Listen, look, see everything

If you do, then you'll come through

Glory to the newborn king