I Walked Across the Dam

Lyrics

Yeah, I remember the day That they walked me away Like I remember the day That I came Yeah, the light on your face And the open spaces I felt surely that I That I was saved Yeah, you gave me a bed And some space for my things A little money and I made I made some friends Yeah, we grew a little closer As the winter blew in Summer found us bound Together Hey, I've asked for nothing when the chance of that seemed so remote You found me guilty of love as sure as life alone Yeah, you played me like a bow But if the music I made made your stomach turn Yeah, you got what you deserved I suppose [Instrumental Break] Well, you see what you see But have you ever been fleeced Of the one thing that you can- You cannot fake? I've seen my innocence go And never come back again As though it was angry I had left it For dead I want not to feel so dirty See, I have lied and cheated, that much is true Don't let it change the way you feel about me Yeah, or I might go changing The way I'm feeling About you Yeah, I could see that the air was rising Now that the stranger had a name My thoughts weren't put at ease Watching the curtains skip their rails Yeah, I could feel the air was rising Now that the stranger had a name My thoughts were never easy But now they'd never seemed so inflamed And I started having that same old dream About women ringing bells On a hill over a prison ward That was full of empty cells Well, I stayed until the lawmen came A fool under your spell Well, this morning, I went and I opened The great iron gates And I walked across the dam a free man I let that morning sun Burn the back of my neck As though behind me burned all of the fires of hell To my left the river ran heavy Into the trough While after the dam, there ran a trickle, Lord It should not have bothered I came to drunk in some motel that I won't name While the wallpaper went down peeling a leper's dream Onto my roadkill carpet, Lord All frostbit by the moonbeams I got to thinking of you, Lord, and this day new Until the light came and I rose up As though inside me burned all of the fires of hell Yours have just begun