I swear I'll never sing the truth again A fool the one who tries Freedom is a joke and murder is a sin But the truth is a hangman in disguise I've travelled far from here to there I've seen many a girl But there's one who's gone so long and is still beyond compare I wonder where she is in this world I never signed up for this game I won't run for white or black If I win or lose to me it's all the same But, damn, I want my honey back I'm no scientist don't count on me My calculations are all wrong I only put words to the things that I see And sometimes they wind up in a song I'm no prophet if you thought I was I can't tell the future, no! If you meet someone who's reading you the stars I can tell you right now he's putting on a show When I get to the Pearly Gates And I'm allowed one plea I wouldn't miss the beers and I wouldn't miss the steaks But the sweetness of mortality