Oh dear mother why did you give me a birth   I didn't ask to be born   Oh dear father can't you see what you've done   I'm not the one you wanted me to become      A coward I am and a good-for-nothing   Still I can walk over you   When my head is down and I'm in distress   Moonshine is my gentle mistress      A drunkard I am and a yokel, too   Still I can walk over you   My hand is poor and I have to bluff   But cheating to win is not even enough      Walking alone, testing the water   Hiding skeletons in my closet      A coward, a drunkard, a withdrawn, a stranger      What the hell   I feel no shame   What the hell   I fell no shame      So dear mother why did you give me a birth   I didn't ask to be born   So dear father can't you see what you've done   I'm not the one you wanted me to become      Walking alone, testing the water   Hiding skeletons in my closet      A coward, a drunkard, a withdrawn, a stranger