Ballad of an angry man

When I was young I looked up to the skies

I prayed and I wondered what would become of my life

Shapeless days with no plan of what’s to be

The smell of green fields and long shadows of summer trees

Kids playing games, in a lot covered in weeds

A world of impressions, a mind full of dreams

I saw a demon of death and a panic took hold

A pale ghost that would haunt me until I grow old

I looked up to the Heavens, on my knees I cried out your name

I called out for my father - but my father, he never came

I believed in you and your promise – could they turn out to be lies?

You can tell what lives in a man’s soul by the empty look in his eyes

Watching your habits and leaning your moves

Storm clouds that gather around an angry man’s blues

Too scared to stay sober, too weak to commit

You scrounge for a meaning, your promise turns treasure to shit

Dodging the bullets in any shelter you find

An invitation to shadows that can poison your mind

You hustle, you deal, you beg for a home

You trade all that is precious for the promise of gold

You looked up to the Heavens, you keeled down and cried out his name

I know that you called for your father, but your father, he never came

The promise of hope you were given, they all turned out to be lies

I can tell that your soul is empty, by the desperate look in your eyes

The visions of grandeur has deluded your head

You look for new victims so your syndrome can spread

The lies that you tell to the people you meet

Are like flies that descend on the warm sticky meat

In the trauma of illness, with any nurse that you find

You're masking the pain, but you can’t leave it behind

You abandon your children for prescriptions and whores

You find a new city to hide in, but never a cure

You looked up and screamed to the Heavens, and desperately cried out his name

On your knees you begged for your father - but your father, he never came

The promise of love and of hope, now has grown sick and has died

You can tell man’s soul is tormented by the violent look in his eyes

You must have been tearing apart

It must have felt like claws in your brain

I watched you sell all that was sacred

And one heart can’t take that much pain

You must have been hunted by demons

You must have had evil inside

My heart has been punctured and pierced

‘Cause you gave up your life and just died