The other day you told me
You’d thought about killing someone
You said you wanted to die

The other day you told me
That you will take whatever work may come
But we both know it was a lie

I know you’ll always steal
Whatever you can't borrow
Cause you are a man
Of part-time sorrow

The other day I said to you
Come along lets hit the highway
You said: but we just met?

The other day you told me
You’d thought about going away
With someone you just met

You’ll go cause you don’t know
What else to do but follow
You are a man
Of part-time sorrow

A week ago I told you
I’d thought about killing someone
You said: do you want to die?

I said no, maybe
I guess

Tell me one thing I want to know, babe
When they stabbed out those two blue eyes of yours
Did you go where all the blinds they go, babe
With your wounds still bleeding –
Red and sore.

Tell me one more thing I’ve got to know, babe
When they put your old Ma in the ground
Did you go where all the orphans go, babe
A runaway child –
Never to be found

Tell me one last thing I want to know, babe
When they shot your one true love down
Did you scream or did your silence grow, babe
While his blood ran down the streets –
Of your hometown

Tell me babe, I need to know