Ballad Of A Lonely Man

I'm young and I'm strong

I've got this God forsaken world by the balls

I've got a one-way ticket to freedom

Ain't no one now gonna take it from me

I was a soldier, age twenty-one

In a war I'm not sure what I was fighting for

And yet I turned from a boy to a man there

Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen

My whole life I could not arrange

My wicked ways I could never change

Don't try, don't try now to understand

For this is the ballad of a lonely man

Close to me is a photograph

Of a family left far, far behind

At once I had love it slipped away from

I searched a lifetime but could not find

In a hospital bed, I'm violently ill

Just one more drink nurse, I swear to God

I've got my St. Anthony and my whiskey

Yes, I'm a veteran of three foreign wars

My whole life I could not arrange

My wicked ways I could never change

Don't try, don't try now to understand

For this is the ballad of a lonely man

Hit it boys

My whole life I could not arrange

My wicked ways I could never change

Don't try, don't try now to understand

For this is the ballad of a lonely man

This is the ballad of a lonely man

This is the ballad of a lonely man