"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
"Come in," she said
Well, the deputy walks on the hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
In a world of steel-eyed death and men who are fighting to be born
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word
Poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail
Nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
"Come in," she said
She walked up to me so gracefully and she took my crown of thorns
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
Suddenly I turned around, she was standin' there
Do I understand your question man, is it hopeless and forlorn?
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
I offered up for salvation an they gave me a lethal dose
I was burned out from exhaustion, I was buried in the hail
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
If I pass this way again, you can rest assured
"Come in," she said
Well I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin dove
Beauty walks on a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine
"Come in," she said
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love
