From thirty thousand feet above   The desert floor, I see it there below   A city with a legend   The west Texas city of El Paso      Where long ago, I heard a song   About a Texas cowboy and a girl   And a little place called Rosa's   Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl      I don't recall who sang the song   But I recall the story that I heard   And as I look down on the city   I remember each and every word      The singer sang about a jealous cowboy   And the way he used a gun   To kill another cowboy   Then he had to leave El Paso on the run      El Paso City by the Rio Grande   The cowboy lived and rode away   But love was strong, he couldn't stay   He rode back just to die in that El Paso sand      El Paso City by the Rio Grande   I try not to let you cross my mind   But still I find there's such a mystery   In the song that I don't understand      My mind is down there somewhere   As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico   I can't explain why I should know   The very trail he rode back to El Paso      Can it be that man can disappear   From life and live another time   And does the mystery deepen 'cause you think   That you yourself lived in that other time      Somewhere in my deepest thoughts   Familiar scenes and memories unfold   These wild and unexplained emotions   That I've had so long but I have never told      Like every time I fly up through the heavens   And I see you there below   I get the feeling sometime   In another world I lived in El Paso      El Paso City by the Rio Grande   Could it be that I could be   The cowboy in this mystery   That died there in that desert sand so long ago      El Paso City by the Rio Grande   A voice tells me to go and see   Another voice keeps tellin' me   Maybe death awaits me in El Paso      El Paso City