[Verse 1]
From thirty thousand feet above
The desert floor, I see it there below
A city with a legend
The west Texas town of El Paso
I recall a story that I heard long ago about a girl
And a little place called Rosa's
Where he used to go and watch this beauty whirl
I don't know who sang the song
But I recall the story that I heard
And as I fly around
I remember each and every word
About a jealous cowboy
And the way he used a gun
To kill another cowboy
Then he had to leave El Paso on the run

[Chorus 1]
El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
The cowboy lived and rode away
But love was strong, he couldn't stay
He went back just to die in that El Paso sand
El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
The voice inside, he's callin' me
Another voice keeps tellin' me
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso
[Verse 2]
My heart is down there somewhere
As I fly above the badlands of New Mexico
I can't explain why I should know
The very trail he rode back to El Paso
Could it be that man can disappear from life and live another time?
And does the mystery deepen
And you think that you yourself lived in that other time?
Somewhere in my deepest thoughts
Familiar scenes and memories unfold
These wild and unexplained emotions that I've had so long
But I have never told
Like every time I fly up through the heavens
And I see you there below
I get the feeling sometime in another life I lived in El Paso

[Chorus 2]
El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
And I'll go leave the runway
The love was tough, he couldn't stay
He went back just to die in that El Paso sand
El Paso City, by the Rio Grande
The voice inside, he's callin' me
Another voice keeps tellin' me
Maybe death awaits me in El Paso
[Outro]
El Paso City