I'm not the man you think I am
I'm crazy and I'm cruel
I once did things by the book
Until I burned the golden rule
And if God loves me
I hope to hell I fall in love with Him
They say this stubbornness will k** me
k** me, sure as sin
So damn all this loneliness
This loveless lack of faith
I'd sell my soul to anyone
Who'd help me find my place
Though that is neither here nor there
Someday we all will win
They say this vanity will k** me
k** me, sure as sin
So farewell all you good old boys
Good night my bad news girls
I cannot stay another night
In this hotel called the world
With no cure and no care
Nor friend nor foe nor kin
They say this wanderlust will k** me
k** me, sure as sin
I know the look of the man in the mirror
And I feel his icy touch
If he's still alive tomorrow
I won't love him half as much
Or I'll miss him in a different sense
As if he'd never been
Born to play this poker game that will break me
Break me, sure as sin
So dance with me my lovely girl
Since I knew you long ago
Before we were born to love or learn
Or hate or heal or know
That everything upon this earth
And all that's ever been
Will fall like fruit from an evil tree
Unbelievably sweet as sin
Then sing your song soft and low
Or sing it loud and hard
You cannot choose your d**h
But you can hold these cards
A joker and a jack
Three skulls and two redskins
They say this blood-feud will k** us all
k** us, sure a s sin
But if not for this sorrow
The heartache and the pain
If it wasn't for this sad song
Tell me what would remain?
And if the whole thing hadn't been set up
To fall like Satan's pins
I guess the Man would never have come to say
“Repent of all these sins!”
I guess the Man would never have come to pray
For you and her and him
I guess the Man would never have come to say
“You must be born again!”