I always wonder why   My mama left town   New Haven ain't a bag of salt   When nobody knows your name   You look so different over the phone   Seven states away they're doin'   Doin' the strange fruit swing   When they come down   You have to leave town      I am   Too tough to die   I am   Too tough to die      Blessed are those who believe   Who believe and have not seen   I wasn't there   And it's got me wondering   And the man you make then and now   He's burning   School's are learning you can't unlearn   No room to turn   Let alone run      And I am   Too tough to die   I am   Too tough to die      It's in their eyes   It's unspoken   Don't even know they're out to do you harm   Can't even see the pulse beating   In the axle of your arm      Outlaw wearin' diamond patches   of sunlight on his coat   Livin in a cage make a 7 time daddy   lose his mind to roam   Derision's a cold wind against my skin   You keep a-flayin til there's no skin at all   What's to hold it together when you stumble   And you fall      I am   Too tough to die   I am   Too tough to die