So you want to be free To live your life the way you wanna be Will you give if we cry Will we live or will we die Tainted hearts heal with time Shoot bad love so we can Stop the bleeding Solitary brother, is there still a part of you that Wants to live Solitary sister, is there still a part of you that Wants to give Solitary brother, is there still a part of you that Wants to live Solitary sister, is there still a part of you that Wants to give It was the third of september That day I'll always remember, yes I will 'Cause that was the day that my daddy died Never had a chance to see him, no Never heard nothin' but bad things about him Mama, I'm depending on you to tell me the truth Mama just hung her head and said Papa was a rollin' stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home (And when he died) All he left us was alone And my mama, she said Oh, my mama said Wherever he laid his hat was his home (And when he died) All he left us, all he left us Can you believe he left us? All alone, yeah All alone, yeah All alone, yeah Yeah

Everyone considered him the coward of the county He'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong His mama named him Tommy, but folks just called him yellow Something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison I looked after Tommy, 'cause he was my brother's son I still recall the final words my brother said to Tommy "Son, my life is over, but yours has just begun" "Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done Walk away from trouble if you can It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek I hope you're old enough to understand Son, you don't have to fight to be a man" There's someone for everyone, and Tommy's love was Becky In her arms, he didn't have to prove he was a man One day while he was working, the Gatlin boys came calling They took turns at Becky, n'there was three of them Tommy opened up the door, and saw his Becky crying The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could stand He reached above the fireplace, and took down his daddy's picture As the tears fell on his daddy's face, he heard these words again "Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done Walk away from trouble if you can Now, it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek I hope you're old enough to understand Son, you don't have to fight to be a man" The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked into the barroom One of them got up and met him halfway 'cross the floor When Tommy turned around they said, "hey look, old yeller's leaving" But you could've heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and locked the door Twenty years of crawling was bottled up inside him He wasn't holding nothin' back, he let 'em have it all When Tommy left the barroom, not a Gatlin boy was standing He said, "this one's for Becky, as he watched the last one fall (And I heard him say) "I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you've done I walk away from trouble when I can Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek And papa, I sure hope you understand Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man" Everyone considered him the coward of the county

Dry your eyes Hide your face with your hands One last breath, hold it in Fuck your past Your future Is in your hands Just sit back and relax Put your fucking shades on Put that gun to your head You're a fucking disgrace Can your god save you now? Can your god save you now? Can your god save you now? Can your god save you now? Can your god save you now? Can your god save you now? You coward You coward You coward You coward Drowning yourself In your tears No one has Pity for you Pity for you Pity for you Pity for you Seconds from the end What's it gonna be? Pull the trigger, bitch Seconds from the end What's it gonna be? Pull the trigger, bitch Seconds from the end What's it gonna be? Pull the trigger, bitch Seconds from the end What's it gonna be? Pull the trigger, bitch

This planet is on a different frequency Our minds are tuned back into insanity With every means of perversion, the human lifeline recedes An epidemic of blindness Seduction and spreading of seed The Devil pulls on the strings that make us dance This human plague is insignificant We'll fail like those before The rabid bite of these dogs of war The hopes of every man They are lost forever- like a grain of sand No we'll never understand How it slips through our hands Like a grain of sand Resplendent retaliation The spiral of life now unwinds The poisons that we all depend on Our love and our hatred entwined The Devil pulls on the strings that make us dance This human plague is insignificant We'll fail like those before The rabid bite of these dogs of war The hopes of every man They are lost forever- like a grain of sand No we'll never understand How it slips through our hands Like a grain of sand Our minds are tuned back into insanity Into insanity