I’ve been running from something, I don’t know Every friend I ever had, they turned to foe And these holes are worn deep inside my soul Never ever gave my heart a chance to grow It’s been stomped upon, left out in the cold When I was young, I never had no momma ‘round As I was born, she was buried in the ground And my father, he always screaming loud Nothing worse than to hear that dreadful sound It didn’t matter what I did, he never proud And it’s plain to see, that no one gives a damn about me I finally got a girl when I was seventeen And finally get a chance to see what I ain’t seen Man, I always knew the other pasture’s green Until she left one night when I was fast asleep I heard she ran off with a lookalike james dean And it’s plain to see, that no one gives a damn about me One day I grew too tired to sit and mope Went down to the old hardware to buy some rope I think I finally might have found the antidote Climbed up high in union square inside that rope In my pocket, clergy man he found a note Well I’ve been running from something, I don’t know Every friend I ever had, they turned to foe And these holes are worn deep inside my soul Never ever gave my heart a chance to grow It’s been stomped upon, left out in the cold And it’s plain to see, that no one gave a damn about me