Well, it's late and she's waiting And I know I should go home But ev'ry time I start to leave They play another Jerry Lee song, yes, they do Somebody
It was in the early evenin' near the presence of the moon You told me you would meet me here, well now is not too soon This dagger twisting in my back
God you say is always the answer What is the answer for our cruelty? We punish a life 'til it's life ever after After the place that we all end up being
Sad days, kissing the cheeks Of the families who are walking away Tragic, the pubs are opposing The system is broken, decay Because business is down
Stick and stones, a few clam living bones Salt and water melt my skin If you don't set sail, you'll end up in the belly of a whale No swallow saint will
Saints and sinners are but we Twisted wrecks of symmetry Like broken arrows split Against this mindless rift we feed Saints and sinners are And each
Oh, Oliver boy, what did you do? But crushed a hand you never shook Then robbed the rights of people to be free Oh, Oliver boy, it's a terrible state
Whistles the wind, blowin' my way Sweepin' me back, back here to stay Can winners be losers runnin' on the same track? Some head for glory, others refresh
Next time out to sea Bring enough soul to bury me For I don't want my final jig In a belly of a squid Next time out to sea Bring enough soul to bury
From the town of Detroit where my job is secure, yeah Secure in the fact now that it's gone for good, yeah So I'll scrimp and I'll scrape at this pension
I've been walking miles forever Through these footprints of my life When I offered you my sadness You took home with delight Eat my heart when you are
Must it take a life for hateful eyes To glisten once again Five hundred years like gelignite Have blown us all to hell What savior rests while on his
Now I'm aimin' for Heaven But probably wind up down in Hell Where upon this alter I will hang my guilt ridden head But it's time, I'll take before I
One, two, three, four Many is the day I took for granted Breathing the air that silenced some As the North Wind blew with its head of thunder Beating
His eyes they close and his last breath spoke he had seen all to be seen a life once full now an empty vase wilt the blossums on his early grave walk
Death Valley Queen, where have you been? Since they crowned you in glory Filled your head with dreams But it still goes to show in every desert There'
I saw her there fade from afar Her hair gray charcoal takes a drag from her tar I kissed her a smile but her blood red shot eye Said the son never shines
And the light of a fading star Is what you were, is what you are Like the glow that christens the moon You shown too soon, you shown too soon Ah when