King's Highway - Joe Henry

I might just change my mind

Sometimes you can never tell

Where a story will unwind

How deep is the shallow ground

Sometimes you would never guess

Who’s all talk and who just might

Find a way or lose themselves

On the king’s highway tonight

I am just like many more

Who lie in bed, still and numb

Waking up and I can see

Just how dark it has become

Who knows no better angels now

Who knows none but earthly light

Who is waiting for a stranger

On the king’s highway tonight

It wasn’t how I had it planned

When it finally came around

I took a man with my own hands

But I held him close when he went down

He hadn’t time to be afraid

His look was only of surprise

Staring up from where he lay

On the king’s highway tonight

I took the little that he had

Only as an afterthought

He wouldn’t have to feel so bad

To think I killed him just because

He was passing through this town

Only 'cause he looked about right

He stopped when I flagged him down

On the king’s highway tonight

I might just change my mind

Sometimes you can never tell