Song Description

The Last Desperate Man

Lyrics

The Last Desperate Man

Sell your soul now there's a symbol with nothing sustaining
The hard truth ridicules the skeletons straining
To resurrect yesterday some parody virtue
This culture's about vultures and victims to rescue

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Sing me a song about the last desperate man
Dug a hole in the ground walked away
Anything he ever wanted he bought into was a part
This old world disappeared just like that

Sell your soul some abstraction no real definition
This music made sense once it meant everything
I was young I was hard I was scared but I'd sing
With my eyes closed knees shaking I'd stand all alone
Hear my voice spit its venom through that cheap microphone

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BRIDGE:
And outside of New Braunsfel one hot summer night
The parking lot some motel he knows what he knows
But that don't make it right he walks out to that road goes
This way or that one way or the other but he's always right here
It don't make any matter and the truth of it all

When it shows itself to him he's humbled and falls to his knees
And it's clear right here remains how you see it you feel it
It's Hell or however else you choose you believe it
This life you perceive it and you live it however you will

Now a life succumbs to the dictates them want you like they are
Got no inkling what's in you and don't really care
They can't really "make" you they don't really like you
You ain't never been one of them or fit in anywhere

And I tried to be faithful I tried to be true
Some tradition that matters but really none of them do
You get down to the core where there just ain't no more
It's all lies and rituals by rote ceremonies
So you don't have to think and you're taught what to feel
Til it all runs together ain't none of it real

Some nights it's the whiskey some nights it's just me
The years come back haunted all bitter and cold
Some nights I see through it all right to the end
I stand steady and hard facing the door
Facing the facts celebrated and poor
Memories and moments and oh so much more
And them shadows play hell what they will

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Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Nick Fuse	Real Folk Songs	12/29/2011