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 

Chorus: 
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