These Exiled Years

It's four in the mornin', battered and numb
 loaded room, an empty gun
 I whistle a tune I heard years before
 The clock started tickin', where did the time go?

 Danced to the mornin' she called out my name
 The wind was a howlin' and down came the rain
 Her arms they caressed me, sweet was her brow
 She opened my eyes to banish the doubt

 Wash me down in all of your joy
 But don't drag me through this again

 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin
 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's another day older in these exiled years

 The dew on the ground blankets the face
 Cold was the night and gone her embrace
 For your land of the free now prisons me
 To rot in this jail of lost liberty

 Wash me down in all of your joy
 But don't drag me through this again

 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin
 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's another day older in these exiled years

 Walk away, watch me as I wave
 One foot here but sure the other's in the grave
 Walk away, walk away

 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's in with the whiskey and out with the gin
 I've heard all your sad songs I can hear
 It's another day older in these exiled years