Ragged Company

Lyrics

O Lord, I think I'm falling, to my disbelief I'm cursing like a sailor and lying like a thief It's hard to heed the calling from the better side of me When I'm blaming everybody else, and no one's coming clean O Lord, can you see my thick skin wearing thin? And the demons of a lesser me are beckoning me in Those who gathered 'round me, I'm watching them all leave 'Cause I am my own ragged company You can take a trip to China, or take a boat to Spain Take a blue canoe around the world, and never come back again But traveling don't change a thing; it only makes it worse Unless the trip you take is in to change your cruel course 'Cause every town's got a mirror And every mirror still shows me That I am my own ragged company I am my own ragged company Won't you help me, Lord? Won't you help me, Lord? Someone cut the cord And I'm falling back again Oh it's lonely, Lord, it's mighty cold And I don't want to live this way, afraid of growing old It's hard to heed the warning when you cannot see the crime The only way to remember is to forget in a rhyme And I'm scared to tread the red road that leads to Galilee 'Cause I am my own ragged company I am my own ragged company Oh, I am my own ragged company I am my own ragged company