Lyrics:

I was tired of being busted with my back against the wall The ends weren't meeting up the way they should Living hand to mouth, you know it ain't no life at all I had to change the station if I could So I may have placed a call to a certain someone that I know I may have pulled a job for his old man I may have been behind a shady business deal or two But I don't expect that you would understand I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried So the jobs kept stacking up, man the years kept rolling by You know there ain't no arguing with time It wasn't always honest and it wasn't always right But I did what I had to to survive So I made a little money and an enemy or two Along the way I lost a couple friends Burned a lot of bridges doing what I had to do It'll all come back to haunt me in the end I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried No one knows the wicked things I've seen through all my days People make their judgements and they turn the other way They can go to hell anyway I've been trying hard to walk the straight and narrow for a while The devil seems to follow me around Everywhere I go, you know I walk a lonely mile And I cast a lonely shadow on the ground I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried

Lyrics:

Flipping through the pages, looking for some kind of sign Staring at the words and trying to read between the lines Searching for the patterns, but they're too hard to define Weigh the facts and figures, read the writing on the wall Hoping for a tip from some anonymous phone call Questioning the witnesses, but no one here knows anything at all It's weighing heavy on my mind The more I seek the less I find Can't get the truth to unwind Can't see to the end of the line This mystery of mine Staring at the ceiling, cursing through my teeth Scratching at the surface for the answers underneath A late night revelation or a moment of clarity Examine all the evidence, investigate the crime Picking up the pieces, running out of time Yesterday is a memory, today's not far behind It's weighing heavy on my mind The more I seek the less I find Can't get the truth to unwind Can't see to the end of the line This mystery of mine And I'm haunted by a vision like a spirit in the fog It's a melancholy melody that carries me along And I recognize the music, but I can't recall the words to the song It's a fading apparition as I'm waking from a dream And it's drifting in the distance like a feather on a stream And the more I try to chase it, man, the faster it's escaping from me And I'm reaching out to feel it, but it's slipping through my hands I'm a man on a mission, I'm a person in a trance And I'm going through the motions, but it doesn't follow any kind of plan Yeah I'm scanning that horizon out as far as I can see And I know that there's an answer waiting right in front of me It's a troublesome equation, but I'll work it out eventually

Lyrics:

I believe that the worst is behind us It's the winter of our discontent In the blink of an eye, so many years have gone by Man I'm not really sure where they went Now it feels a weight has been lifted From my shoulders like a ton of lead So many years that I've tried to push these feelings inside Maybe put all my demons to bed If these demons are safely behind me Some nights it feels like they're right on my trail There's a battle tonight between the dark and the light And the one that I feed will prevail There's a fire inside and it's burning Yeah it smolders like a cigarette At the end of the day, we keep our demons at bay Using whatever help we can get There's a choir in my head loud as Christmas And it's ringing like a mission bell If I can get through the night, I'll be doing alright But it may be to early to tell Sometimes it seems like my boat she's a-sinking And I'm in need of some wind in my sail There's a battle tonight between the dark and the light And the one that I feed will prevail Now it looks like the darkness is lifting And we're blinded by the light of day In the stillness of dawn, now our voices are gone And we've got no more words to say Sometimes it feels like my cup runneth over Sometimes it seems like I'm destined to fail There's a battle tonight between the dark and the light And the one that I feed will prevail Though it seems like these wolves are behind me Some nights it feels like they're hot on my trail There's a battle tonight between the dark and the light And the one that I feed will prevail