Just outside a month And twenty five days further from A widower will take his life Neither the body, nor the name will be known A person, a being, who in the next year or so Perhaps notorious of Blood feuds, bank heists, and back alley exploits Will be pure future myth With talks of
In the soon to be abandoned old pick up truck of theirs A gallon of gas with room to be half Will spill out onto the cold, black A quarter to four in the mornin' Asphalt Green-yellow dregs of diesel will ease their way down the vehicle
A Friday with fog will roll in from the west A dog, a mutt perhaps Will sniff its way past the front end of the tree trashed truck The motor will jolt in and out of its normal sequence In discordant chugging pitter-patter accordion metal-licks of ruckus Like in the days to come Death's canine will want an impression Of his master's woodwork With barks of
After all that I will have been through And 'fore I will have known your name And after all I will have done for you You will have dug yourself a shallow grave A shallow grave A shallow grave A shallow grave