I don’t even know your name, but I love you anyway. We’re just pawns in the same game, easily thrown away. Our colors they are the same, the same color, and same grain, were built for better days. Guess what I want to say is, God bless the working man, God bless the working woman, anybody here who can, survive in this broken land, yes. I can’t trust my government, that don’t mean that I don’t amend. I love the service men that puts his life on the line for it. Every star and every stripe, every race and every right, to be free and live a life that was promised to us in the archetype, yeah. God bless the working man, God bless the working woman, anybody here who can survive in this broken land, yes. God bless the working man, God bless the working woman, anybody here who can survive in this broken land, yeah. My only companion my fellow American, my only companion my fellow American, yeah, my only companion my fellow American, yeah, my only companion my fellow American, yeah.

With a love so strong, it’ll carry on beyond our days, with your dying breath, love I hope I hear you say, I won’t, I won’t be, afraid afraid you see, for the rewards of the wicked never meant that much to me, as they lay you down to sleep. One day they’ll bury me at cost down with the rest at Holy Cross, love I hope we go side by side, I can’t imagine you not in my life. I won’t, I won’t be, afraid afraid you see, for the rewards of the wicked never meant that much to me as they lay me down to sleep. When the story’s finally ended, and they’ve taken back what they lended, when the curtain finally falls, I know I’ll see you all on the other side. I won’t, I won’t be, afraid afraid you see, for the rewards of the wicked they never meant that much to me as they lay me down to sleep, as they lay me down to sleep, as they lay me down to sleep.

Forgive my sins I’m only a man, a man with less then perfected plans, plans that lead to foreign lands, that lands me into a stranger’s hands. With arms of open offered love, a rover’s heart must rise above, a rover’s heart must rise above. Well you saved me, you saved me from myself, you showed me a better common wealth, you listened when nobody gave a damn, and for that I am thankful forever in debted my man. Take me now to great unknowns, there’s nowhere else I’d rather roam, a spinning wheel, a rolling stone, you’re with me now I’m not alone, you’re with me now I’m not alone, you’re with me now I’m not alone. Well you saved me, you saved me from myself, you showed me a better common wealth, you listened when nobody gave a damn, and for that I am thankful forever in debted my man. And for that I am grateful forever in debted my man. And for that I am hopeful for ever in debted my man.

There is poison in my veins, it fills my head and my heartstrings, it floods my judgement, but it takes away my pain, oh Lord how’d I ever let it get this way. It’s not an easy thing to grasp, it’s hard to let go of your past, just make each day a little better than the last, you got time on your side but my friend you know it’s fading fast. There is hate inside my heart, I’m told it’s been there from the start, from the moment you were born, until the day that you depart, all you can do is try your best to pick it all apart, until your soul is satisfied, or at least until you settle for a lie, now we are alive, we will love and we will thrive, you're goddamn right we’re gonna do more than just get by. C’est la vie don’t wait for me, I’m not as good, as I used to be, but I got love, and I know pain, c’est la vie one in the same, one in the same. There is poison in these veins, it fills my head and my heartstrings, it floods my judgement, but it takes away my pain, oh Lord how’d I ever let it, Oh Lord how’d I ever let it, oh Lord how’d I ever let it get this way.

Save your bets, I’m not through yet, I’ll quit when it becomes a chore. All in stride, time after time, I don’t know why I come back here for more. I got awards on my table, but it don’t mean a thing, there ain’t enough merit in this world that’s gonna buy my girl a wedding ring. I got records on my wall but it don’t mean shit, they won’t pay my bills when they figure out why I’m sick, no. You don’t do it for the money, you don’t do it for the fame, well all you can say is that it’s a love and labor game, it’s a love and labor game, it’s a love and labor game, and a man’s got to work, you know a man’s got to work, right, a man’s got to work. So you’re a rover boy well you’re meant to die out on that highway, now you’re self employed you’re getting way too used to being lonely, when you fill the void tip that bottle over when you’re thirsty, well you’re over joyed did it overtake you on your worst day. Don’t you do it for the money, no, don’t you do it for the fame, well all you can say is that it’s a love and labor game, it’s a love and labor game, it’s a love and labor game, and a man’s got to work, you know a man’s got to work, right, a man’s got to work. So save your bets, I’m not through yet, I’ll quit when it becomes a chore, all in stride, time after time, I don’t know why I keep coming back for more, I Keep coming back for more, well I keep coming back for more, you know a man’s got to work, I guess a man’s got to work, you know a man’s got to work.

You’re just as lovely as you have ever been, this road it ain’t been easy but nothing ever is, in this world of darkness I know one thing is true, I don’t want no one but you, I don’t want no one but you, and I know that you don’t need me but I hope you want me too. We met in a hurry, your sister she was worried, that I’d blow right through you like a hurricane, but I fell just like a hammer, I was consumed like cancer, and I still love you more and more each day. I don’t want no one but you, I don’t want no one but you, and I know that you don’t need me but I hope you want me too. I’m just as ugly as I have ever been, if we ever parted ways I’d never love again, in this world of darkness I know one thing is true, I don’t want no one but you, I don’t want no one but you, and I know that you don’t need me but I hope that you want me too, I know that you don’t need me but I hope that you want me too, well I know that you don’t need me but I hope you want me too.

Country runs and banjo strums they’re calling out your name, been damn near half a year since the last time that it rained, hotter then a kitchen it’s enough to go insane, oh go on and get it what are you waiting for. City lives and trophy wives how they love to complain, about all the pop singers and how they all sound the same. When you got all that money you’re not worried about fame, no go on and get it what are you waiting for. You only got one life to live, if you don’t like the way it is, learn to forget and forgive, and walk right out that door, you can walk right out that door, you can walk right out that door. And the sun will be shining just as bright as it always has before, as it always has before. Island time the sun it shines damn near all the day. The people are always changing the faces never stay the same, when you’re always on vacation, you’re not worried about the rain no, go on and get it what are you waiting for. Mountain air it’s thin up there, it’s beautiful and green, snow capped mountains lead right into the stream, when you’re heads in the clouds life is but a dream oh go on and get it what are you waiting for. You only got one life to live, if you don’t like the way it is, learn to forget and forgive, and walk right out that door, you can walk right out that door, you can walk right out that door. And the sun will be shining just as bright as it always has before, as it always has before, as it always has before, you can walk right out that door, you can walk right out that door.

You are your greatest savior, you are present now and forever, in one form or another, you’re my brother and my sister, you are thirty seven trillion cells all working together so, don’t get stuck out here waiting on a miracle to come along and save you from yourself, to save you from yourself, yeah. You’ll find that in the end a broken heart will mend, don’t concern yourself with things that you cannot comprehend, this life’s too short for that kind of suffering. Don’t get stuck out here waiting on a miracle to come along and save you from yourself, to save you from yourself, yeah. Don’t get stuck out here, waiting on a miracle to come along and save you from yourself, to save you from yourself, you’re a miracle yourself, yeah yeah.

This feeling is always fleeting, I’m always leaving here too soon. I’ve been bleeding all over this highway, it’s taken all of my youth. I’m always traveling between oceans, always searching for some kind of truth. I was always meant to be a sailor you see but I’m stuck here on the shore. My temptation the distant horizon keeps on calling me back here for more. Well the waves they are my weakness, they come and go with stride, like a woman that can't decide, what to do with all her pride, unassuming strength great, great fury and great length, keeps on pulling me back here but I refuse to sink. If I could just keep my head above the water, till the sun decides to shine, I can make it until tomorrow, I can have me one more ride, cause there’s nothing on this rock, from the floor to the mountain top. I thank God for second chances, and the tide that never stops, it goes back and forth forever, and ever and ever Amen, I’ll keep on chasing that sunset till it comes back around again. Cause I was always meant to be, a sailor you see, but I’m stuck here on the shore. This feeling, it’s always fleeting, I’m always leaving here too soon.