Harry Chapin — Last Stand

It used to be that old John Wayne Would fight the good fight once again Find the strength to bear the pain Stand up til he'd finally fall But now it's not just movie time And now it's you that's on the line And now it's you that's going to find If you can stand at all So you circle all the wagons And you hide behind the trees And you try to find some courage on your knees When you heard the sound of taps played By the one man band You knew this is where you'd have to make Your last stand And so, my friends, the last stand The last song from the last band The last note from the last man But you gave it all you can The cards came down to the last deal You're a starving man at his last meal And the movie's rolled down to the last real It's got an ending you never planned She's left you now, and so it seems You've tumbled down the last stream And you've found out that the final dream Can disappear so fast Watch it all just fade away, boy It came down to the last day And then the last out, and then the last play And you're alone at last So you circle all the wagons And you hide behind the trees And you try to find some courage on your knees When you heard the sound of taps played By the one man band You knew this is where you'd have to make Your last stand Well, so it was late last night She left on the final flight You watched as the last light Went out there in your soul Took your look around the top For now you face the final drop You'll go down fast and you won't stop You found a very deep hole Say you're off on the last ride Remembering how she last cried And you know that love had long last died In silence, not in pain You lost your last, your last race Stumbled in at last place Too late to find the one last face Waiting in the rain So you circle all the wagons And you hide behind the trees And you try to find some courage on your knees When you heard the sound of taps played By the one man band You knew this is where you'd have to make Your last stand