The man come to shake my hand, and rob me of my farm. 
 I shot 'em dead and I hung my head, and drove off his in his car. 
 So on the run with a smokin' gun, lookin' for the coast. 
 Of all the things I've had and lost, your love I miss the most. 
 And hell will have to pay, I went a little bit too far I'd say. 
 Half drunk I stumble on the whiskey from the bar. 
 Sleepin' on the Santa Monica pier with the junkies and the stars. 
 For when I woke a spanish cross, was reachin' for my hand. 
 Then the stranger took the place, the words I couldn't understand. 
    And there's nothin' but the ground, it's the only place I found. 
 Where I can lay my head in town. 
 Down on the boulevard, the sidewalk shuffles change. 
 Cracked out from the night before, hallucinatin' in the rain. 
 So borrowed me a quarter for a call to the other side. 
 I told God that the whole damn world was waitin' in line to die. 
 But not me, this time. 
 I left the trouble far behind. 
 And he tied his arm off one more time. 
 The man come to shake my hand, and rob me of my farm.