I went down to the station, just to take a ride. Run, run, run, run. If you see me acomin', don't you waste my time. Found myself on a flatcar, yesterday behind. Pullin' out from the platform, there was no brass band. I pulled out from the platform,

That's what my heart needs You left me, for another You told me, he was your lover So I'm begging and I'm pleading And I'm down on any knee, ooh baby Baby, ooh baby I'm calling you out loud and clear, baby I love you, yes I do

Ah, I'll get even with you I'll get you back somehow Ah, that's what I'm gonna do Gonna get even with you I'm lonely and abandoned Washed up, left for dead I'm lost inside the desert Of every word you said Like a nuclear reactor

Born on the bayou Born on the bayou. Chasin' down a hoodoo there. Now when I was just a little boy standin' to my Daddy's knee My Poppa said son don't let the man get you do what he done to me 'Cause he'll get you 'cause he'll get you now now. I can

I've felt the hate rise up in me Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves I wander out where you can't see Inside my shell, I wait and bleed You haven't learned a thing I haven't changed a thing The flesh was in my bones The pain was always free

Now, if I was a bricklayer, I wouldn't build just anything; And if I was a ball player, I wouldn't play no second string. And if I were some jew'lry, baby; Lord, I'd have to be a diamond ring. If I were a secret, Lord, I never would be told. If I were a

I turned around and the water was closing all around like a glove Like the love that finally found me. Then I knew in the crystaline knowledge of you Through the crystal like and clear water fountain Drove me like a magnet Do you always trust your first

Don't shake the hands of fate, Boy who always did what he was told, Hit the brakes, hit the glass, Time to shake the hands of fate The mistakes of the past, Flashed before his face Burn the evidence, of my existence, Clear the ashes on the ground Burn

I've felt the hate rise up in me Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves Inside my shell, I wait and bleed I wonder out where you can't see You haven't learned a thing I haven't changed a thing My flesh was in my bones The pain was always free

Only if for a night (Ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ah-ha-ah-ooh) And I heard your voice as clear as day And you told me I should concentrate It was all so strange and so surreal That a ghost should be so practical Came to weeping (came to weeping) And the only