| Lyrics: | By Mickey Newbury
Well, today there's no salvation
The band's packed up and
gone
And I'm left standing with my penny in my hand
There's a big crowd at the
station
Where the blind man sings his song
But he sees, Lord, what they can't
understand
It's the 33rd of August, Lord
And I'm finally coming down
Eight days
from Sunday
Finds me Saturday bound
Once I stumbled through the darkness
Fell down
to my knees
A thousand voices screaming in my brain
Woke up in a squad car
Busted down
for vagrancy
And outside my cell, it sure as hell, it looked like rain
Now I've got my
dangerous feeling
Under lock and chain I've killed my violent nature with a smile
Though the
demons danced and sang their songs
Within my fevered brain
Not all my God-like thoughts,
Lord, were defiled
Yesterday's newspaper forecast no rain for today
Yesterday's news
was old news
So I threw it away
Some time's at night, Lord, you know
I can still feel
the pain
And, outside my cell, it sure as hell, it looks like rain |
