Mother won't you keep me
Out of the sands where wicked flows
And won't you keep me
So I might not know which way to follow

I'm always reaching
People try to talk what they don't know
I'm always reaching
To try to keep from feeling hollow

Mother won't you teach me
Your feelin sad but it dont show
Mother wont you teach me
So I can lead instead of follow

I try to make it through my day
But my thoughts are clouded with you instead
I try to focus on the task at hand
But I cannot baby, 'cause you drive me mad

It's crazy, and uncivil
Your ways, and what they do to me
I know baby, you like it
I gonna take you on home, and drive you mad
Lord I'm gonna drive you mad

You're intoxicating in every way
I only fed you once babe, now you're here to stay
I'm tryin so damn hard to free you from my head
Girl I know u know it, but you drive me mad

Well its crazy, and uncivil
Your ways, and what they do to me
I know baby, you like it
I gonna take you on home, and drive you mad
Lord I'm gonna drive you mad

How many times must I tell you
When we do this oh It kills me
That look on your face tells me everything, that I'm waiting for

I'm worried and flustered, because I don't know whats wrong
And baby, well I'm wondering, how long how long
But you don't, no you don't have to say

And maybe one of these days
I'll get better, better with what I say
But until then I'll, yes I'll wait
To try to prepare me for

I'm beat up and burned out, but I'll keep soldiering on
I work up and ask you, baby will you stay
Oh but you don't, no you don't even say

oh I know what your thinking
But I don't see what you want from me
Well don't you babe, don't you worry
Because I'll take that blame

But why do you make me feel like I don't belong
Baby, I'll tell you, this won't last that long
If you don't, oh you don't finally say

Long days money, in my hand
Blood from another, another man
Oh and aching, in my side
Lord won't you help me
It's so cold tonight

And I'm walking, hand in hand
While I wonder, this troubled land
I got this feeling, deep in side
I won't live through
Another night

Oh and it feels like, my whole world's crashing down
Everyone around me dropping to their knees
It's a wasteland, everyone you see
Driven by the money, controlled by their greed
Lord and it's the same thing, the same old game
No matter what you do, it always stays the same

My heart is pounding, without rest
Trying to kill this, unwelcome guest
Why does this evil, still survive
Lord won't you tell me
Before I die

Oh and it feels like, my whole world's crashing down
Everyone around me dropping to their knees
It's a wasteland, everyone you see
Driven by the money, controlled by their greed
Lord and it's the same thing, the same old game
No matter what you do, it always stays the same

Oh and it feels like, my whole world's crashing down
Everyone around me dropping to their knees
It's a wasteland, everyone you see
Driven by the money, controlled by their greed
Lord and it's the same thing, the same old game
No matter what you do, it always stays the same

I stare in the face of an older man
He starts to cry as I reach out my hand
He says scars remind us, of all we've done
One day soon, you'll find out son

Oh we're all dust in the end
Boy now don't you forget it
Lord we're all dust in the end
Just try to be remembered for something

His words are ringing, in my head
And I start to wonder, what I'm doing instead
This life is flyin, its flyin by
So I will keep on runnin, 'till the day I die

Oh we're all dust in the end
I'll never forget it
Lord we're all dust in the end
Just try to be remembered for something

Oh we're all dust in the end
I'll never forget it
Lord we're all dust in the end

These shackles burning all around my legs
I hear 'em howlin' about a mile down

Lady Gypsy won't you sing to me
Hearing your sweet voice is gonna carry me away
I'm letting you see all this mess of me
And my will is shaky but, I't ain't gonna stop me

A single shot of whiskey to lighten my load
I'm cutting corners, to head down a different road

Lady Gypsy won't you sing to me
Hearing your sweet voice is gonna carry me away
I'm letting you see all this mess of me
And my will is shaky but, I't ain't gonna stop me

On my way to london, sirens ringin'
On down to london, aint no train gonna get me there

Aint gonna stop for nothin', time is waisting
No not for nothin, you can try to stop me there

On my way to London, bomb shells fallin
On down to London, ain't no way I'm gonna be safe there

Oh it seems, like an endless run
Oh it seems, like I'm the only one
Who sees past tomorrow, Into the eyes of a perfect storm
A perfect storm

Watching life just wash away
Every time I try to right my way
But I see through the sorrow, to the eyes of a perfect storm
A perfect storm

Well my life's been full of these endless battles, where I'm fighting for my breath
And then people tell me, just throw down your paddle.
I don't feel that way
Oh I don't feel that way

Sun don't shine through the clouds you hang
It's such a lonesome sound the world is bellowing
I fear there is no tomorrow, in the eyes of a perfect storm
Such a perfect storm