On the blind side and down the back ways  The roots of sadness crawl,  When you can't get what you need  You feel like taking a torch to it all  All the sweet talk makes a bitter man  You can feel the darkness rise  Sometimes you don't know what you're fighting for  You don't know who it is you despise.  I am the Halleluiah Man  Break all the rules I'm the King of fools  I'm the renegade in this greytown  And I'll do anything to bring a government down  I am the Halleluiah Man  Yes my friends I've been born again  I'm the black sheep who while shepherds sleep  Will do anything to bring a government down  In a coat of a thousand colours  And a star spangled Cadillac  He picked up a rodeo queen  With whiplash marks all over his back  When dreams don't become their people  People become their dreams  He didn't understand at the time  But now he knows exactly what it means  I am the Halleluiah Man  Break all the rules I'm the King of fools  I'm the renegade in this greytown  And I'll do anything to bring a government down  I am the Halleluiah Man  Yes my friends I've been born again  I'm the black sheep who while shepherds sleep  Will do anything to bring a government down  They said watch out boy be careful where you tread  You're throwing away all that beautiful bread  He slept outside until the world opened up  They've got to understand he's a Halleluiah Man  He says I am the Halleluiah Man  And I'll do anything to bring a government down  He built himself a prison  He knew he had to escape  Some worlds are held together by steel  Some worlds are held together by sellotape  He was d