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well, i’m john l sullivan and i’ll kick
your ass
I got lefts, rights, uppercuts, hooks and wicked jabs
and of all these skills I possess,
the one thing I don’t have
is love
to heal my wounded heart
well i’m a drunken irishman
the last bare knuckles champ
lord you know i’ve tasted blood
and my eyes have been damp
and if it is you’re asking me
what i’m all about
i’m gonna look you in the eye and tell you man
I can lick any sonofabitch in the house
we’ll i’m going to the graveyard
for to rest my weary bones
yes i’m going to the graveyard
for to rest my weary bones
well my life is so damned hard
jesus bring your baby home
won’t you bring me home
when they put that dirt upon me
and I hear my mama cry
when they’re filling up that hole
and that soil hit knotty pine
well the circle done got broken
by and by lord by and by
when that casket starts to rotten
and those bugs feast on my flesh
when my coffin starts decaying
and those little critters gonna eat my ass
I may or not believe man
that i’m down in this here hole dead
when my angels they abandon me
and my devil comes to call
when my sweet angels they abandon me
when that devil comes for my soul
i’m gonna look him in the eye and tell him
man I don’t belong down here at all
when that sun goes supernova
five billion years from now
when that suns glows big and red
five billion years from now
it ain’t gonna matter what adolf hitler done
or john lennon sung
five billion years from now
cause i’m going to the graveyard
for to rest my weary bones
yes i’m going to the graveyard
for to spend some time alone
well my life is so damned hard
jesus bring your baby boy home
won’t you bring me home
my lifeless body achieves a perfect rhythm
while I swing man I swing
from this twisted oak tree
someday i’m gonna crawl out my skin
i’ll be so free
reverse polarity
what I now do feel yeah in the fiber of my being
no I ain’t gonna walk on no streets of gold
i’d rather stay here in the sunshine
hold your hand
gaze into your eyes
I stepped out of line
stepped out of line
I found heaven
I found heaven
all my heroes now are dead
long gone forgotten
and crazy mary whispers voices in my head
tells me sing a song not yet written
and girl you can take my laughter
and turn the wheel backwards
take your god and your hereafter
and shove it where I wanna be
inside of you
no I ain’t gonna walk on no streets of gold
i’d rather stay here in the sunshine
hold your hand
gaze into your eyes
I stepped out of line
stepped out of line
I found heaven in your heart
I found heaven in your heart
all those creepy little noises
I alone am immersed in sin
I cannot make you disappear
looks like death has found me again
now the nightmares are coming soon
i’ll get buried alive in the dirt
take it all in
write it all down
record it for the history of hurt
i’ll record it for the history of hurt
he gave her everything he was
but that was cold and gray and dead
lord by now she’d had enough
and it’s too late to repent
she can hold her head up high
as she’s walking out the door
the barrel tastes good in his mouth
gonna go out like he came in all alone
we all go out like we come in all alone
and on that pretty stucco wall
there’ll be blood and bone and brain
all caught up in a painter’s swirl
just like van gogh and his last great work of art
I wanna be van gogh and his last great work of art
just like van gogh and his works of art
all those creepy little noises
I alone am immersed in sin
cannot make you disappear
looks like death has found me
oh dear soul
in the garbage is his gold
had a tattoo of jesus dug into his chest
and the good folk couldn’t look past the color
of his skin
or his smell, or the fear he struck in them
and it’s hard
so goddamned hard
turn on the news man
he sure do talk alot
reports reality, be grateful for what you got
and another young man died in a sick bed
it’s a shame and there ain’t no fucking
cure
tell me who’s to blame
tell me, tell me
and i’ll never ask again
won’t you tell me who’s to blame
and a baby died
mama suckin’ on a pipe
go on now tell me about your peace, love and hippie
consciousness
and the world today’s lost it’s magic
and it’s strange
who’s responsible for such a fucked up mess
did you guess
and tell me, tell me
won’t you tell me who’s to blame
tell me, tell me
and i’ll never ask again
won’t you tell me who’s to blame
if I look to the sky
where will my pain go?
Throw it out the window
and not bother with that load
if I live my life with some human dignity
well the one to blame sure enough ain’t gonna
be me
and tell me, tell me
won’t you tell me who’s to blame
tell me, tell me
and i’ll never ask again
won’t you tell me who’s to blame
is it love we’re lookin for, lookin for my friend?
mama oh mama
now where have you been
down at the tahiti lounge
just drinking again
mama oh mama
now where did you go
one more night your little boy got left alone
that’s okay
you know why
I got my Saturday
and I got me some cartoons
you can lay up drunk all day
I got cap’n crunch and scoobie doo
gonna go down to that ol’ fishin’ hole
nine years old giggin’ frogs all alone
and i’m gonna take a stroll to the dairy queen
get me a dilly bar, and a cherry dip cone, and a steak
finger basket, man
I just love my Saturday
all I got to do is pretend
close my eyes, count three and pray
mama, you ain’t gonna hit me again
gonna watch the ballgame with grandpa in the afternoon
the new york mets are playing in cincinnati town
the vertical hold on the black and white don’t
work too good
but that’s okay
tom seaver’s on the mound and he ain’t
throwin’ nothing but strikes, man
I just love my Saturday
playing pitch back ball outside
climbin’ trees i’m not afraid
someday i’m gonna leave this world
i’m gonna fly
bye bye
grandma made the best fried chicken in town
plenty of grape kool-aid you know to wash it down
tonight i’m gonna go to bed with my belly full
gonna wake up later and watch the midnight special
with wolfman jack, and I think the cars are on
Saturday has come and gone
but it will be back again
six days to wait
that ain’t too long
I got baseball cards and plastic army men
and Saturday.
we’ll i’d walk across texas barefoot
just to be with you
and every thorn and rattlesnake bite
all hell couldn’t stop me from getting through
we could meet somewhere near dallas
and my heart it would rapture
I don’t know what I did to deserve this story
book ending ever after
i’m gonna walk across texas
crawl across egypt
you give me strength
i’ll snatch the stars out the sky
I don’t know why the good lord done blessed
us
go on I will with you by my side
well seem like the whole world done up and turned
evil
arm in arm we gonna fight the good fight
cause there ain’t nothing bigger than true love
there ain’t nothing bigger than you and I
i’m gonna walk across texas
crawl across egypt
you give me strength
i’ll snatch the stars out the sky
I don’t know why the good lord done blessed
us
go on I will with you by my side
when the lights all fade and all things come to an
end
I will not shake with fear
hand in hand we gonna fly up to heaven
I sure hope that there’s a texas up there
so I can walk across it
i’m gonna walk across texas
crawl across egypt
you give me strength
i’ll snatch the stars out the sky
I don’t know why the good lord done blessed
us
go on I will with you by my side
Blood poured out on the streets today
looks like the whole world done up and changed
there’s a hole in the ground
and a hole in my heart
i’m gonna dive right in
hey walkin’ dead man
after all got done and said
last time I checked man
all blood still bleeds red
in the name of some god
there’s a lot of folks dead
and there’s more to come
ain’t no time for a gospel song anymore
today the front lines are at my front door
ya’ll gonna ask me what I stand for
I will not bow down to hatred, fear or war
i’m gonna dive right in
gonna dive right in
I felt something today I ain’t never felt before
evil pure and real
as love walked out the door
i’m gonna die on my terms
with my god and not yours
i’m gonna dive right in
gonna dive right in
ain’t no room for a gospel song anymore
ain’t no time for a gospel song anymore
ain’t no time
no I never saw the blues and the greens
I just saw the grays and the fakes
but I swore i’d persevere
lord no matter what it takes
I built my house up on a volcano
and her name was the same as mine
now that girl she about to blow, baby
and I ain’t a fear’d to die
hell no
cause I ain’t a fear’d anymore
I been staring down the devil
she sure looked a lot like me
but I got her shittin’ bricks
cause I got a gang of masculinity
true that baby
cause I ain’t a fear’d
I ain’t a fear’d anymore
hey now mister reaper
won’t you get thee gone
the judge house door is closed now
your shit is packed up and on the lawn
you been pissin’ on my spirit
and it done give me a thicker skin
and I will not be a fear’d
come time to see you again
you phony motherfucker
cause I will not be a fear’d
no I will not be a fear’d
anymore
you didn’t look so tough lyin’ in that
box
with your eyes dead and cold
and I can still smell the scotch
and your shadow blocks out the son
like i’m five years old
and hey big man
did you ever give a damn about me?
Your hate does not equate magic anymore
I did not understand you see
why’d you wanna hurt me
what’d I ever do to you?
I taught myself as I grew
hey big man
thank you for my eyes they’re blue
the only gift you ever gave to me
that you could not take away
and I will survive you
hallelujah
and I will love bigger than you
and I will do all the bullshit you did do
I will not be a big man
I will not be a big man
like you
hey big man
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