Feet hit the ground; feet leaving town   Quicker than a bullet or a knife   Falling ain't no fun when you're on the run   Honey we was runnin' for our life      When Stagger Lee had drunk his fill of moonlight   He turned his burnin' eyes upon my soul   "It's time, by God, to spend this night with someone else", he said.   "Squeeze a little pleasure from the gold" (love & glory, children)   We can take it easy when we're old.   He said, "We'll take us into town, lay our money down   I'll bring you to the sweetest thing that grows   Because the fairest ones in sight are bloomin' every night at a tavern   Called the Sabre and the Rose."   We swang into the saddle slick as breathing   And slapped 'em once for pleasure with the reins   The horses snorted frosty in the moonlight   Somethin' dark was singing in my veins   Older than the voices in my brain.      He said, "This place you're gonna see is where they live and breathe   And sink down a little bit deeper every day   And sometimes at night, when the wind is runnin' right,   You can hear it suckin' thirty miles away"   Then the light was crimson and I found her,   All naked and eternal and insane   Sacred as the mysteries around her like a veil   Nothin' but her prison was profane   All we had in common was our chains.   Ah-burn it down boys   Burn it to the ground, boys   Burn it on down   Feet hit the ground; feet leaving town   Quicker than a bullet or a knife   All the way she ran holdin' to my hand   Runnin' for the river and our life   Slidin' from the moonlight into shadows   Silent as the river as it flows   Swimmin' to the place they'll never find us   All we left behind us was our clothes   And the stories, children.   Sing about The Sabre and the Rose