Words and music by Christopher Cross and Rob Meurer



Out here on the plains tonight

The white man rules the game

Searching through the flames tonight

There's no one left to blame



This town just don't seem big enough

For the likes of the two of us

Here in the wild wild west

In the wild wild west my friend

Living in the wild wild west

In the wild wild west again



We left our bootprint on the shore

And rode off on toward sunset

We left the natives on the cutting room floor

And the shooting's still not done yet



Lazy boy and channel three

Bourbon and contrition

Say a prayer for the NRA

And pass the ammunition



Mercy

Folly and frustration

Mercy

Too much information

Mercy

Desperate situation

Here in the wild wild west

In the wild wild west my friend