New day rising coming on   Gonna make it to the night again   If I can keep my teeth up off the street.   Keep the hunger from talking to my feet.   Cause then I start walking,   And talking rough   Someday the mans gonna come and call my bluff.      I saw the whole world   Turn in on itself   And I saw you lie there and touch yourself   And I put your mothers house on a shelf   It was a fitful sleep   And I dreamt of wealth      I drank too much   And we toasted good health   In all those pictures,   Unsure of myself.   And I saw the plans   As they started to melt   And for the first time looking,   I truly felt.      Well I seen my lady dressed in white,   shes scratching at my window tonight.   hell, you can come in   But you aint staying the night.   So take your finger off that light.   Cause I seen you cut down bigger stronger men   And I aint never coming home again.      Well she smiled at me    Cause she knew my soul   medicine for the hopeless ones.   Heroin for the hopeless ones.      Hollow moon rising, coming on   Smiling hard, my fathers son.   I put my hand there, on your arm   But I aint never harmed no one   No I aint never done no wrong      Took my last buck fifty   Bought a pack of smokes   Gotta make it through the night again.