As the Sun goes down on this small town, and the stars fill up the sky You can hear the wind whispering her songs of the ghosts before our time You see we've been blessed by their blood and sweat, for that we're grateful for So when the lights go down on this one horse town, time to settle up the score The legend goes that the dark horse rides on Rising up from the dirt once again We ain't playing, you heard what I said There ain't no backing down We ain't playing, you heard what I said Ain't no backing down This town's got guts and glory, 'cause our legends never die And on a moonlit night when the stars shine bright you can see 'em up in the sky This land it holds our stories and she holds them without fear Until the time comes 'round when they lay me down in this dirt for a thousand years Legend goes that the dark horse rides on Rising up from the dirt once again We ain't playing, you heard what I said There ain't no backing down We ain't playing, you heard what I said Ain't no backing down The warm winds blow in the valley as the storm clouds come to pass And the Sun rains down all across our land while our children grow like grass Someday we'll just be memories, stories carried down Of the marks we made and the plots we laid in our dusty fabled town The legend goes that the dark horse rides on Rising up from the dirt once again We ain't playing, you heard what I said There ain't no backing down We ain't playing, you heard what I said Ain't no backing down