Dakota

They call me Dakota,
'cause my heart’s in the black hills
It rides open eyed, over that broken plain
When I am sleeping my spirit goes joining
And there on my own, I’m a whole man again

‘cause each time my heart and my spirit meet
There’s peace in this tired heart beat

They call me Dakota, the Civil War soldier
I’m at war with myself, trying to set myself free
And each day is a battle, and sometimes I win them
But mostly I fight what the war’s made of me

‘cause each time my heart and my spirit meet
There’s peace in this tired heart beat

They call me crazy, they call me a cowboy
They say, get on your horse son, and just ride away
Ride ride back, to the Black Hills of Dakota
I’d love to oh Lord, but I’ve lost my way

Oh I should never have passed over
from the Heartlands to the Badlands
I should never have come, but I never learned to stay
They say she’s there somewhere, out there in the Black Hills
And that’s where my heart, spends most of it’s day

And each time my heart and my spirit meet
She rides those black Hills with me

They call me crazy, they call me a cowboy
They say, get on your horse son, and just ride away
Ride ride back, to the Black Hills of Dakota
I’d love to oh Lord, but I’ve lost my way , I’ve lost my way