They said "Be careful young boy Things are gonna be the same You think that she will But she ain't never gonna change She'll play with your heart Like she's playing some game She'll take your next breath And exchange it for pain"
But I was deaf as a dog And kept the same path Now I'm lost in a fog And my mind is going mad And I'm praying to god "Send me off with a bang" Sho' enough as I finished those words Came a car with a man with a drink in his lap Forty mile-an-hour and my neck it went snap But he didn't stop though his windshield was cracked So he drove to Austin, Texas and never looked back Now my bones lie on an old dirt road Left for the wolves and the gnats