Released: November 3, 1992
Songwriter: Jon Bon Jovi
Producer: Bob Rock
[Verse 1]
Across the border they turn
Water into wine
Some say it's the devil's blood
They're squeezing from the vine
Some say it's a savior
In these hard and desperate times
You see it helps me to forget
That we're just born to die
I came here like so many did
To find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
And finally be alive
And I know nothing good comes easy
And all good things take some time
I made my bed I'll lie in it
To die in it's crime
You can't help but prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
Than anybody's known
Now I packed up all my wife and kid
And left them both back home
See there's nothing in this pay dirt
The ghosts are all I know
[Bridge]
Now the oil's gone
And he money's gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging on
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash these sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one is getting out of here alive
Not this time
[Verse 2]
"In the blessed name of Jesus"
I heard a preacher say
"We are all God's children
And he'd be back, back someday"
I hoped that he knew
Something as he drank that cup of wine
I didn't have too good of a feeling
As I head out to the night
I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed all night for water
For this burning in my veins (Every night's the same)
It was like my soul's on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes
And my future blew away
[Bridge]
Now the oil's gone
And the money's gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging on
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash theese sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive
[Verse 3]
A man spends his whole life
Waiting praying for some big reward
But it seems sometimes
That payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I'd die
Make it by the gun or knife
Because the other way there's too much pain
Night after night after night after night
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash these sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here
Dry County
No is getting out of here
Dry County
No
Across the border they turn
Water into wine
Some say it's the devil's blood
They're squeezing from the vine
Some say it's a savior
In these hard and desperate times
You see it helps me to forget
That we're just born to die
I came here like so many did
To find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
And finally be alive
And I know nothing good comes easy
And all good things take some time
I made my bed I'll lie in it
To die in it's crime
You can't help but prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
Than anybody's known
Now I packed up all my wife and kid
And left them both back home
See there's nothing in this pay dirt
The ghosts are all I know
[Bridge]
Now the oil's gone
And he money's gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging on
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash these sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one is getting out of here alive
Not this time
[Verse 2]
"In the blessed name of Jesus"
I heard a preacher say
"We are all God's children
And he'd be back, back someday"
I hoped that he knew
Something as he drank that cup of wine
I didn't have too good of a feeling
As I head out to the night
I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed all night for water
For this burning in my veins (Every night's the same)
It was like my soul's on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes
And my future blew away
[Bridge]
Now the oil's gone
And the money's gone
All the jobs are gone
Still we're hanging on
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash theese sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here alive
[Verse 3]
A man spends his whole life
Waiting praying for some big reward
But it seems sometimes
That payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I'd die
Make it by the gun or knife
Because the other way there's too much pain
Night after night after night after night
[Chorus]
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash these sins from off our hands
In dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out of here
Dry County
No is getting out of here
Dry County
No
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