The man come to shake my hand, and rob me of my farm ♪ I shot 'em dead, and I hung my head, and drove off in his car ♪ So on the run with a smokin' gun, lookin' for the coast ♪ Of all the things I've had and lost, your love I miss the most ♪ And hell will have to pay ♪ I went a little bit too far, I'd say ♪ Half drunk, I stumble on the whiskey from the bar ♪ Sleepin' on the Santa Monica pier with the junkies and the stars ♪ For when I woke, a Spanish cross, was reachin' for my hand Then the stranger took the place, the words I couldn't understand ♪ And there's nothin' but the ground, it's the only place I found ♪ Where I can lay my head in town ♪ Down on the boulevard, the sidewalk shuffles change ♪ Cracked out from the night before, hallucinatin' in the rain ♪ So I borrowed me a quarter for a call to the other side ♪ I told God that the whole damn world was waitin' in line to die But not me, this time ♪ I left the trouble far behind ♪ And he tied his arm off one more time ♪ The man come to shake my hand, and rob me of my farm