Jonah Tolchin - Godforsaken World lyrics

rate me

Well I asked my babe to walk with me x3

Her mother would not let her daughter be.

Well I asked the lord for the reason why x3

He’s too drunk to come down from the sky

Well lord I said I’m a simple man

And mama well I’m doing the best I can

If I follow my heart and speak my mind

Don’t get nothing back but blood and crying

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City’s on fire, run to the woods, there ain’t no left

Don’t you remember what you could,

Could have done, times run out, flames creeping up,

No water in the well to put it out.

Honest man, Honest man come walk with me

Tell me how do you live so peacefully

Well he took out a needle and a sack of cocaine

and said these things help me to stay sane.

I said lord well if this is sanity

Then I’ll go wild I’ll be insane for free

Policeman, he walked up to me

He said boy, come with me.

Well they threw me, in the county jail

He said don’t ask questions, son don’t rebel

If we let you leave, son well you better walk right

And he handed me the plans to the rest of my life

Well I looked at the paper in my hand

White-picket fence, two kids, a handyman

Well it had the day I was to leave this old world

Then he handed me a ring and told me the name of a girl.

Chorus

Well I contemplated suicide,

They said that’s illegal but good try

I grabbed the pistol from policeman’s belt

pulled the trigger down the officer fell.

I laughed, felt better than a man could tell

Said looks like the place for me is hell

It couldn’t be worse than this godforsaken world

Couldn’t be worse than this godforsaken world.

Chorus +:

Trains gone loose, thousand miles out

Stuck in the desert times run out

Throat’s so dry whiskeys all we got

No cure on board, Oh waters all run out