I’m bitter and twisted   Unaddressed and unlisted   And all of our plans came to nothing, it seems.   There’s nothing above   Except lies about love   Crooked skies west   And impossible dreams.      And the young and the hatefully   Spoiled and ungrateful   Born to inherit this beauty we made,   Who owe us a debt   That they’ll never know debt   And the dirt and disease   Of the rotten old days.      So tear out my name from the books of the law   I don’t want a part of the past anymore   And scrub out every line in my biography   And don’t let me influence no one.      I’m jelous and broken   For the trophies and the tokens   And the aching little photos   On other peoples walls.   No desire could be finer   And no man should be a miner   But I could spit a hole in diamond   When the clocking-out bell tolls.      How we danced, you and I,   Beneath the cut glass sky   With our hands waving mimicing   How other hands were free   Life’s a beach that you build,   A sandpit we filled   With the old cold sweat   Of our slavery.   So tear out my name from the books of the law   I don’t want a part of the past anymore   And burn every record in my discography   And don’t let me influence no one.      Pack up my books in the old oak chest   Saddle me a horse and point me to the west   Fill up my hip flask, load up my gun   And point me to the setting sun.