Thug for Life I will be (this is the ballad of a dead soldier) A life of crime I will lead (close your eyes, hear the ballad of a dead soldier) If you play the game, you play to win (this is the ballad of a dead soldier) This is the ballad of a dead

Feel like throwin' in the towel, don't be a fool Below the belt That's how it'll always be Hold your head up high, look 'em in the eye Never say die Ow get up, get up and make it work They're out to knock you out n' put you down for the count Hey, watch

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred times You go back to her And I go back to I go back to He left no time to regret Kept his lips wet With his same old safe bet

Intestinal crank And the crank will turn Drawing out the guts I will die in pain Disemboweled alive Butchers drag me to the rack Bind my hands to the bar Legs are fastened to the table Hooded man unsheathes his knife

The horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they ride They have come to take your life On through the dead of night With the four horsemen ride Oh yeah yeah Or choose your fate and die By the last breath of the fourth winds blow Better raise

Little hottie swingin' up in the swing No cover charge, get in for free Chillin' on a back porch, oh yeah Them good ol' boys pickin' six string Woah oh oh, leave your trouble at the door Woah oh oh, chillin' on a back porch No last call, let's party on

If there's a future, we want it, now There's a time and a place to die Don't try to take this from me Don't try to take this from me, now Lost the battle, win the war There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it Feels like I'm waking from the dead

Tried of dull ages, I walk the same ground, Collecting the tragedies still Hollow ambitions in a hollow mind Carried my cross to the hill And how I lust for the dance and the fire Deep of the nectarine sunset to drink Spill me the wind and its fire To

To be joyful, joyful Joyful and happy, sunny and bright Joyful and happy, just being alive Doctors' notes, swinging votes, but I can't decide If I stay here much longer, surely will die Lived the life full of vice wwith passion and crime Can't say I'm

My fears come alive In this place where I once died Demons dreaming Knowing I... I just needed to realign Decisions made from desperation No way to go Internal instincts craving isolation For me to grow Fell in a river of illusion