Well, they call me William the Pleaser   I sold opium, fireworks and lead   Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers   when the shadows get long I'll be dead      Now, her hair was as black as a bucket of tar   her skin as white as a cuttlefish bone   I left Texas to follow Lucinda   Now I'll never see heaven or home      I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight   A sly grin and a bowl full of stars   Like a kid who captures a firefly   and leaves it only to die in the jar      As I kick at the clouds at my hanging   As I swing out over the crowd   I will search every face for Lucinda's   And she will go off with me down to hell      I thought I'd broke loose of Lucinda   The rain returned and so did the wind   I cast this burden on the god that's within me   and I'll leave this old world and go free      The devil dances inside empty pockets   but she never wanted money or pearls   No, that wasn't enough for Lucinda   She wasn't that kind of girl      Now I've fallen from grace for Lucinda   Whoever thought that hell be'd so low   I did well for an old tin can sailor   but she wanted the bell in my soul      I've spoken the god on the mountain   And I've swam in the Irish sea   I ate fire and drank from the Ganges   and I'll beg there for mercy for me      I thought I'd broke loose from Lucinda   the rain returned and so did the wind   I was standing outside the Whitehorse   Oh but I was afraid to go in      I heard someone pull the trigger   her breasts heaved in the moonlight again   There was a smear of gold in the window   and then I was the jewel of her sin      They call me William the Pleaser   I sold opium, fireworks and lead   Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers   when the shadows get long I'll be dead      Now her hair was a black as a bucket of tar   skin as white as a cuttlefish bone   I left Texas to follow Lucinda   I know I'll never see heaven or home   I know I'll never see heaven or home   I know I'll never see heaven or home