Man come to shake my hand And rob me of my farm I shot him dead and I hung my head And drove off in his car So on the run with a smokin' gun I'm lookin' for the coast Of all the things I've had and lost Your love I miss the most And hell will have to pay I went a little bit too far, I'd say Half drunk, I stumble on The whiskey from the bar Sleepin' on the Santa Monica pier With the junkies and the stars For when I woke, a Spanish cross Reachin' for my hand Then a stranger took the place Of words I couldn't understand And there's nothin' but the ground It's the only place I've found Where I can lay my head in town Down on the boulevard The sidewalk shuffles change Cracked out from the night before Hallucinatin' in the rain So I borrowed me a quarter for A call to the other side And told God that the whole damn world Was waitin' in line to die But not me this time I left the trouble far behind And he tied his arm off one more time Man come to shake my hand And rob me of my farm