The Drifter Lyrics

Album: EP

Born, the son of a nomad,

mumma never wanted me,

I lived in an orphanage,

'till i was 17.

Then I joined the military,

they sent me to the wars,

by the time that i was 25

I'd survived 7 tours.

I still wake up at night to screams

though its been so many years,

the terrible things I've seen and done

the ringing in my ears.

I left when i was 26

but could not hold a job.

So i earned my living out of death

as a hitman for the mob.

But one day I took a contract,

it was to kill some whore.

When they told me I had killed my mum

I swore I'd kill no more.

So I left the life of a murderer,

I was 29 years old,

I became a journeyman,

a drifter on the road.

As I lay by my camp fire,

I count out my scars,

one for everyman I've killed

on my face one for my ma!

I lived that way for many years

never knowing any home,

I walked the world on tired feet

hungry and alone.

One day i came across a town

its name i can't recall,

I was searching for some food

when the snow began to fall.

I took shelter in an alley way

and slept amongst the trash,

I was woken up by men with guns

they said 'give me all your cash.'

I told them that i had none

a hit then I did feel.

The last thing I remember

was my hand on something steel.

When I finally came round

the 2 men they were dead,

savagely beaten, lifeless eyes

I'd torn out from the head.

I was picking up the gun

when then I heard a sream,

a woman had seen what I'd done

it was time for me to leave.

As I lay by my campfire,

I count out my scars,

I think of the things that I have done

and play on my guitar.

I still remember that night well

I was 41.

But now the lawmen hunted me

I was on the run.

I fled to the forrests dark and deep,

and lived amoungst the trees,

I climbed the mountains high and steep

to the bones there I did freeze.

How the time has flown by

I'm now 43,

I was fishing on this lonely beach

when the lawmen cornered me.

The lawmen here I count at 10,

but bullets I have 5,

I raise the gun and open fire,

'you'll never take me alive.'

I see a flash, I feel the pain of

bullets ripping me.

I fall down to the wet sand

and watch my blood flow to the sea.

I feel my life sliping away

a lonely death for me,

I die the way that I have lived

hungry, cold and free.