Dry County Lyrics - Bon Jovi

1 Across the border they turn

2 Water into wine

3 Some say it's the devil's blood

4 They're squeezing from the vine

5 Some say it's a savior

6 In these hard and desperate times

7 You see it helps me to forget

8 That we're just born to die

9 I came here like so many did

10 To find a better life

11 To find my piece of easy street

12 And finally be alive

13 I knew nothing good comes easy

14 All good things take some time

15 I made my bed, I'll lie in it

16 To die in it's the crime

17 You can't help but prosper

18 Where the streets are paved with gold

19 They say the oil wells ran deeper here

20 Than anybody's known

21 Now I packed up on my wife and kid

22 And left them both back home

23 To see there's nothing in this paydirt

24 The ghosts are all I know

25 Now the oil's gone

26 And the money's gone

27 All the jobs are gone

28 Still we're hangin' on

29 Down in Dry County

30 They're swimming in the sand

31 Praying for some holy water

32 To wash these sins from off our hands

33 In Dry County

34 The promise has run dry

35 Where nobody cries

36 And no one gets out of here alive, not this time

37 In the blessed name of Jesus

38 I heard a preacher say

39 We were all God's children

40 And he'd be back, back someday

41 Hoped that he knew something

42 As he drank that cup of wine

43 I didn't have too good of a feeling

44 As I head out to the night

45 I cursed the sky to open

46 I begged the clouds for rain

47 Prayed all night for water

48 For this burning in my veins

49 It was like my soul's on fire

50 Now I had to watch the flames

51 All my dreams went up in ashes

52 And my future blew away

53 Now the oil's gone

54 And the money's gone

55 All the jobs are gone

56 Still we're hangin' on

57 Down in Dry County

58 They're swimming in the sand

59 Praying for some holy water

60 To wash these sins from off our hands

61 In Dry County

62 The promise has run dry

63 Where nobody cries

64 And no one's getting out of here alive

65 A man spends his whole life waiting

66 Praying for some big reward

67 It seems sometimes that payoff leaves you

68 Feeling like a dirty whore

69 If I could choose the way I'd die

70 Make it by the gun or knife

71 'Cause the other way there's too much pain

72 Night after night after night after night

73 Oh, down in Dry County

74 Where they're swimming in the sand

75 Praying for some holy water

76 To wash these sins from off our hands

77 In Dry County

78 The promise has run dry

79 Where nobody cries

80 And no one's getting out of here

81 Dry County

82 No one is getting out of here

83 Dry County

84 No