Nowhere Begins
(words & music by Markus Rill)		  
 
This song started with this little guitar pulloff/riff. The key of A is a good one for rock'n'roll. I guess I must've thought of the Hazeldine girls or more specifically the cover of their first album "How Bees Fly" when I came up with that opening line about New Mexico. I don't know where the twisted little plot came from but I figured if I put another outlaw story song on the record it'd better have something new to offer. The best part, though, is that whenever I sing that song, I imagine Linda Fiorentino in the role of the femme fatale.
There's a place out in New Mexico where the desert ends and nowhere begins
I guess that's just where I belong considering the shape that I'm in
I look down at my wedding band and see my darling's face before my eyes
She'll never know I did her wrong until the end of time

Every sin must be paid for, I know
the Lord knows I don't mind long as my baby loves me when I go

There was a dark-haired girl in knee-high boots suckin' on a filter cigarette
Hearts and promises get broken by and for a girl like that
I swore no one would ever know about our night of thrills
So they laid the blame on me when that very night, the Johnson-boy was killed

Every sin must be paid for, I know
the Lord knows I don't mind long as my baby loves me when I go

I'd rather have my baby think I killed that low-down Johnson son-of-a-bitch
Than to have her hurtin' or crying over what I really did
And that dark-haired girl in knee-high boots, she won't ever tell
She died in the Mississippi river, I drowned her there myself

Every sin must be paid for, I know
the Lord knows I don't mind long as my baby loves me when I go

Lordy Lord, it won't be long now before I arrive
They got me strapped down in the chair, my baby loves me till I die
I guess I will feel better soon considering the shape that I'm in
There's a place out in New Mexico where the desert ends and nowhere begins