The Drones - I Walked Across The Dam lyrics

I remember the day That they walked me away Like I remember the day that I came The light on your face The open spaces I felt surely that I was saved You gave me a bed And some space for my things A little money and I made some friends And we grew a little closer As the winter blew in Summer found us bound together I've asked for nothing when the chance of that seemed so remote You found me guilty of love as sure as life alone You played me like a bow And if the music I made made your stomach turn Well you got what you deserved I suppose Well you see what you see But have you ever been fleeced Of the one thing that you cannot fake? I've seen my innocence go And then come back again As though it was angry I had left it for dead But I want not to feel so dirty I have lied and cheated That much is true Don't let it change the way you feel about me Or I might go changing The way I feel About you .......... I could feel the air was rising Now that the stranger had a name My thoughts weren't put at ease Watching the curtains skip their rails Yeah I could feel the air was rising Now that the stranger had a name My thoughts were never easy But now they'd never seemed So inflamed And I started having that same old dream About women ringing bells On a hill over a prison Full of empty cells I stayed until the lawmen came A fool under your spell .......... Well this morning they went and they opened The great iron gates And I walked across the dam a free man I let that morning sun burn the back of my neck As though behind me burned all the fires of hell To my left the river ran heavy into the trough While after the dam there ran a trickle It should not have bothered I came to drunk in some motel that I won't name While the wall paper went down peeling a leper's dream Onto my road k** carpet All frostbit by the moonbeams I got to thinking of you and this day new Until the light came and I rose up As though inside me burned all of the fires of hell Yours have just begun