Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.

Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote. And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat. We went down to the courthouse a…

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull, And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull. At night I wake up with the sheets soa…

I met her in a Kingstown bar. We fell in love, I knew it had to end. We took what we had and we ripped it apart. Now here I am down in Kingstown again.

Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.

Poor beauty. May I not pity her, of all people? She loved him, but she had only learned one way to show her love - through cruelty and abuse

Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know