Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have to serve somebody You're gonna have to serve somebody But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes Indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody But you're gonna have to serve somebody,

Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little they robbed and stole Till someone else was in control You think it’s easier And you think it’s easier I have a will for survival So you can hurt me And then hurt me some more I can live with denial

I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved Into nightfall And you're not here To get me through it all I let my guard down And then you pulled the rug Now the day bleeds Somebody to have I'm going under and this time I fear there's no one to

I don't know much about eternity Or where somebody like me's gonna wind up going All I know is that I have already been Parked in a Chevy by the deep river rolling And that summer night, shooting star paradise Might be all that I'm getting Kissing and

And mountains Oh mountains o' things The life I've always wanted I guess I'll never have I'll be working for somebody else Until I'm in my grave I'll be dreaming of a live of ease To have a big expensive car Drag my furs on the ground And have a maid

Now you're just somebody that I used to know But you didn't have to cut me off Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing And I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No, you didn't have to stoop

And the warden sang Come on somebody why don't you run Ol' red's itchin' to have a little fun Get my lantern get my gun Red'll have you treed 'for the mornin' comes Well I caught my wife with another man And it cost me 99 on a prison farm In Georgia

I'd like to have that one back I wouldn't here my poor heart saying Heard somebody speak her name They said she was still looking fine I could feel that same old flame I once felt when she was mine Always thought that I was missing something But I found

Before I hurt somebody Or I have to hurt somebody This concrete is too cold, to be walking on it Or else walking on it with no shoes on (no shoes on) Don't wanna struggle, oh no Don't want it to become a habit I've been living in the gutter with no shoes

Ain't that a lot of love for two hearts to have and hold Somebody, somebody tell me Woman, ain't that a kindness Baby, ain't that a kindness Somebody, somebody please You gotta dig it baby Yes, yes, yes know the deserts couldn't hold all the love that I