I stand next to an empty grave Where my friends will lay I'll put their bodies down Into their resting place Got a purple heart For a wound and scar They just s...

I ain't been sleeping well these days I lie awake listening to the trains Wishing for one of them To come take me away Lost my way every place I've been Tired o...

I'm wandering these streets alone They don't feel like home This once hallowed ground Feels like a ghost town now I'm on the street corners everyday At night I ...

My savior, this city, My comfort, her pity Or so I hoped My heartache, my hard luck, My war time, my struggle That no one knows In the allys where I sleep I be...

I've spent days in this trench in the snow Just my gun by my side It's cold and wet and you're all alone Up keeping watch at night The bite and the sting The b...

That whiskey burns going down Old man pour me another round Cause it's my last night in town And I ain't thinking of slowing down No, I am fixing to drown Till...