Solitary Man (Outlaw Edition)

Intro
[Sparse, melancholic acoustic guitar picking pattern, dusty road-weary mood, subtle slide guitar swell]
​[Verse 1]
Headlights bleed through the desert glass
Another red-eye flight, another year passed
Driving 95 with the windows down
Looking for a ghost in a nowhere town
Got a pocket full of sand and a heavy name
Playing a bad hand in a rigged-up game
Far from home, under alien skies
Just tracking the shadow in my own eyes
​[Chorus]
Yeah, I’m a solitary man
Walking through the ruins of a broken plan
Got no crew, got no ground
Just the echoes of a lonely sound
Yeah, I’m riding on the edge of the dark
Just an outlaw looking for a single spark
Far from home, but I won't turn back
Just a solitary soul on a lost track
​[Verse 2]
Staring at the screen in a basement room
Watching the clock ticking down to doom
Everybody’s praying for a miracle sign
While I'm just toeing the finish line
Got a badge in my pocket that don’t mean a thing
And a wedding band rusting on a cold, dead string
You can run, you can hide from the things you've done
But you can’t outrun the setting sun
​[Chorus]
Yeah, I’m a solitary man
Walking through the ruins of a broken plan
Got no crew, got no ground
Just the echoes of a lonely sound
Yeah, I’m riding on the edge of the dark
Just an outlaw looking for a single spark
Far from home, but I won't turn back
Just a solitary soul on a lost track
​[Bridge]
[Guitar swells, slide guitar cries out like a distant siren]
And the stars overhead look so damn cold
Like a million stories that won't get told
How many galaxies do you have to cross
Just to figure out the true cost?
Yeah, the road goes on forever, or so they say
When you're too far gone to find your way
​[Guitar Solo]
[Slow, weeping acoustic slide guitar breakdown, heavy with grit and isolation]
​[Chorus]
Yeah, I’m a solitary man
Walking through the ruins of a broken plan
Got no crew, got no ground
Just the echoes of a lonely sound
Yeah, I’m riding on the edge of the dark
Just an outlaw looking for a single spark
Far from home, but I won't turn back
Just a solitary soul on a lost track
​[Outro]
[Acoustic strumming fades to a slow, single-string pick]
Just a solitary man...
Walking in the dust...
Yeah.
[Final, resonant acoustic chord hanging and fading into silence]