We played king of the mountain out on the end The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men Now there's so much that time, time and
I hold you in my arms As the band plays What are those words whispered baby Just as you turn away I saw you last night Out on the edge of town
Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow Out on the streets your chances are zero Take a look around you (come on now) It ain't too complicated
She'll let you in her house If you come knockin' late at night She'll let you in her mouth If the words you say are right If you pay the price She'll
I was bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window Didn't know my own face So brother
Hey there mister can you tell me what happened to the seeds I've sown Can you give me a reason sir as to why they've never grown They've just blown around
The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch. As the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey that's
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages
Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand But there
I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school when she
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don't know where it's flowing I took a wrong turn
Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick
I get up in the evening, and I ain't got nothing to say I come home in the moring, I go to bed feeling the same way I ain't nothing but tired, man I'
I had a friend was a big baseball player back in highschool He could throw that speedball by ya, make you look like a fool Saw him the other night at
Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening To the hours and minutes tickin? away Yeah just sittin? around waitin? for my life to begin While
Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night Now, they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight Gonna
You and me we were the pretenders We let it all slip away In the end what don?t surrender Well the world just strips away Girl ain?t no kindness