[Intro]
Bare boots on metal dust
Neon tumbleweeds roll past
Sky herd in a rusted truck
Headlights cut through black glass
[Chorus]
Yodel-ay (ay-ayy) in the dark air
Calling out ghosts of the old frontier
Steel clouds low like a midnight fair
I’m a sky-fi rider with the yoke of my fear
Yodel-ay, echo on the hull so wide
Long howl bending in the solar tide
If the stars talk back when I cry
Let ‘em know this cowboy still alive (hey!)
[Verse 1]
Hat brim low in a cracked-up visor
Rust-red code on my wrist like a cipher
Boot scuffs sparking on the loading bay floor
I brand my name in the frost on the door
Dust in my lungs, but it tastes like metal
Prairie went missing, so I chase new levels
Bagpipe drone in the cargo hold moan
Fiddle string slicing through the ship’s old bones
[Chorus]
Yodel-ay (ay-ayy) in the dark air
Calling out ghosts of the old frontier
Steel clouds low like a midnight fair
I’m a sky-fi rider with the yoke of my fear
Yodel-ay, echo on the hull so wide
Long howl bending in the solar tide
If the stars talk back when I cry
Let ‘em know this cowboy still alive (oh yeah)
[Bridge]
[Beatbox kicks, clipped hats, deep throat bass]
Tongue tap, cold rap in the docking line
I talk slow sin in a tight half-time
Drill through doubt like a plasma mine
Got wolves in the code and they all my kind
Breath as the drum, chest as the snare
Heart as the bell in electric air
If I fall off this midnight ride
Yodel my name to the other side
[Chorus]
Yodel-ay (ay-ayy) in the dark air
Calling out ghosts of the old frontier
Steel clouds low like a midnight fair
I’m a sky-fi rider with the yoke of my fear
Yodel-ay, echo on the hull so wide
Long howl bending in the solar tide
If the stars talk back when I cry
Tell ‘em this outlaw still alive, still alive (yodel-ay)