He was a convict of his own conviction He was in conflict of his own infliction And the lines do draw a parallel Right back to the place Where the shadow boxers dance And old memories dwell Below the tight rope Drawn in suspicion Beneath the artist Who walks in ambitions And the lines do draw a parallel Right between fact and fiction So the honest truth cannot yell Over blind conviction Nobody, nobody, nobody Likes to be kept waiting Nobody, nobody, nobody Likes to feel powerless He was a jack box On his last round He had been wound And wound and wound Until the old man Pulled his final thread The final thread that lead To bloodshed And the lines do a parallel Right to the source of the friction Where the spark that started a fire From an old flint fell Causing a burning Affliction Nobody, nobody, nobody Likes to be kept waiting Nobody, nobody, nobody Likes to feel powerless And so he found himself With his lady, on the run Pursued by his friend The emancipator and instigator That old shot gun And they ran Till time ran out For there are some things You can't fool about And the lines do draw a parallel Right between fact and fiction So the honest truth cannot yell Over blind conviction