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American III: Solitary Man
by Johnny Cash
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Overall Rating:
3.0220
Avg. Critic Score:
3.0316
American III: Solitary Man Lyrics
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- Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
- You can stand me up at the gates of hell
- But I won't back down
- Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
- And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
- Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down
- [Chorus:]
- Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
- Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
- Well I know what's right, I got just one life
- In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
- But I stand my ground and I won't back down
- [Chorus]
- Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
- Hey I will stand my ground and I won't back down
- No I won't back down.
- Belinda was mine 'til the time that I found her
- Holdin' Jim
- And lovin' him
- Then Sue came along, loved me strong, that's what I thought
- But me and Sue,
- That died, too.
- Don't know that I will but until I can find me
- A girl who'll stay and won't play games behind me
- [Chorus:]
- I'll be what I am
- A solitary man
- A solitary man
- I've had it here - being where love's a small word
- A part time thing
- A paper ring
- I know it's been done havin' one girl who loves you
- Right or wrong
- Weak or strong
- [Chorus]
- Up in the mornin', out on the job
- Work like the devil for my pay.
- But that lucky old sun has nothin' to do
- But roll around heaven all day.
- Had a fuss with my woman, an' I toil for my kids,
- An' I sweat 'til I'm wrinkled and gray,
- While that lucky old sun got nothin' to do
- But roll around heaven all day.
- Oh, Lord above, don't you hear me cryin'
- Tears are rollin' down my eyes.
- Send in a cloud with a silver linin',
- Take me to paradise.
- Show me that river, Take me across,
- wash all my troubles away
- Like that lucky old sun give me nothing to do
- But roll around heaven all day.
- Is it getting better
- Or do you feel the same
- Will it make it easier on you now
- If youve got someone to blame
- You said one love
- One life
- When its oone need
- In the night
- One love we get to share it
- It leaves you baby if you dont care for it
- Did i disappoint you
- Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
- You act like you never had love
- And you want me to go without
- Well its too late
- Tonight
- To drag the past out
- Into the light
- We're one but we're not the same
- We get to carry each other
- Carry each other
- One
- Have you come here for forgivness
- Have you come to raise the dead
- Have you come here to play jesus
- To the lepors in your head
- Did i ask too much
- More than a lot
- You gave me nothing now
- Its all i got
- We're one but we're not the same
- Well we hurt each other and we're doin it again
- You said love is a temple
- Love the higher law
- Love is a temple
- Love the higher law
- You ask me to enter
- But then you make me crawl
- I cant be holdin on
- To what youve got
- When all youve got is hurt
- One love
- One blood
- One life
- Youve got to do what you should
- One life with each other
- Sister
- Brothers
- One life but we're not the same
- We get to carry each other
- Carry each other
- One
- When life seems full
- Of clouds and rain
- And I'm full
- Of nothin' but pain
- Who soothes my thumpin', bumpin' brain?
- Nobody
- When Wintertime comes
- With its snow and sleet
- And me with hunger
- And cold feet
- Who says "Here's two bits, go and eat"?
- Nobody
- Well, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
- I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
- And until I get something from somebody, sometime
- I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
- When Summertime comes
- All warm and clear
- And my friends see me
- Drawin' near
- Who says "come on in and have a beer"?
- Nobody
- Well one time when things was
- Lookin' bright
- I started to whittlin' on a stick one night
- Who said "Hey! That's dynamite!"?
- Nobody
- Mmmm, I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
- I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
- And until I get something from somebody, sometime
- I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
- I ain't never done nothin' to nobody
- I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time
- And until I get something from somebody, sometime
- I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time
- Well, you're my friend
- And can you see
- Many times we've been out drinking
- Many times we've shared our thoughts
- Did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got
- Well you know I have a love, for everyone I know
- And you know I have a drive, for life I won't let go
- But sometimes this opposition, comes rising up in me
- This terrible imposition, comes blacking through my mind
- And then I see a darkness
- Oh no, I see a darkness
- Do you know how much I love you
- Cause I'm hoping some day soon
- You'll save me from this darkness
- Well I hope that someday soon
- We'll find peace in our lives
- Together or apart
- Alone or with our wives
- And we can stop our whoring
- And draw the smiles inside
- And light it up forever
- And never go to sleep
- My best unbeaten brother
- That isn't all I see
- And then I see a darkness
- Oh no, I see a darkness
- Do you know how much I love you
- Cause I'm hoping some day soon
- You'll save me from this darkness
- It began when they come took me from my home
- And put me on Death Row,
- a crime for which I am totally innocent, you know.
- I began to warm and chill
- To objects and their fields,
- A ragged cup, a twisted mop
- The face of Jesus in my soup
- Those sinister dinner deals
- The meal trolley's wicked wheels
- A hooked bone rising from my food
- All things either good or ungood.
- And the mercy seat is waiting
- And I think my head is burning
- And in a way I'm yearning
- To be done with all this weighing of the truth.
- An eye for an eye
- And a tooth for a tooth
- And anyway I told the truth
- And I'm not afraid to die.
- I hear stories from the chamber
- Christ was born into a manger
- And like some ragged stranger
- He died upon the cross
- Might I say, it seems so fitting in its way
- He was a carpenter by trade
- Or at least that's what I'm told
- My kill-hand's
- tatooed E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist
- That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.
- In Heaven His throne is made of gold
- The ark of his Testament is stowed
- A throne from which I'm told
- All history does unfold.
- It's made of wood and wire
- And my body is on fire
- And God is never far away.
- Into the mercy seat I climb
- My head is shaved, my head is wired
- And like a moth that tries
- To enter the bright eye
- I go shuffling out of life
- Just to hide in death awhile
- And anyway I never lied.
- And the mercy seat is waiting
- And I think my head is burning
- And in a way I'm yearning
- To be done with all this weighing of the truth.
- An eye for an eye
- And a tooth for a tooth
- And anyway I told the truth
- And I'm not afraid to die.
- And the mercy seat is burning
- And I think my head is glowing
- And in a way I'm hoping
- To be done with all this twisting of the truth.
- An eye for an eye
- And a tooth for a tooth
- And anyway there was no proof
- And I'm not afraid to die.
- And the mercy seat is glowing
- And I think my head is smoking
- And in a way I'm hoping
- To be done with all these looks of disbelief.
- A life for a life
- And a truth for a truth
- And I've got nothing left to lose
- And I'm not afraid to die.
- And the mercy seat is smoking
- And I think my head is melting
- And in a way that's helping
- To be done with all this twisting of the truth
- An eye for an eye
- And a tooth for a tooth
- And anyway I told the truth
- But I'm afraid I told a lie.
- Would you lay with me in a field of stone
- If my needs were strong would you lay with me
- Should my lips grow dry would you wet them dear
- In the midnight hour if my lips were dry
- Would you go away to another land
- Walk a thousand miles through the burning sand
- Wipe the blood away from my dieing hand
- If i gave my self to you
- Would you bathe me with me in the stream of life
- When the moon is full would you bathe with me
- Will you still love me when i'm down and out
- In my time of trials will you stand by me
- Would you go away to another land
- Walk a thousand miles through the burning sand
- Wipe the blood away from my dieing hand
- If i gave my self to you
- Would you lay with me in a field of stone
- If my needs were strong would you lay with me
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Worlds are whirling right on by
- Are you wondering who am i
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Am I just a star in some crown
- Or someone's life sun going down, down, down
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Silent beauty shining high
- Are you tears the angels cry
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Like the night you pass me by
- I could touch you if I try
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Am I just a star in some crown
- Or someone's life sun going down, down, down
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- Silent beauty shining high
- Are you tears the angels cry
- Field of diamonds in the sky
- I know that hearts were loving
- Long before I was here
- And I'm not the first to ever cry
- In my bed or in my beer
- There were songs before there was radio
- Of love that stays and love that goes
- They were writing meloncholy tunes
- And tearful words that rhyme
- Before my time
- Before my time
- There were songs in old dusty books
- Of love thats always been
- Sweet lovers in their glory
- Who are now gone with the wind
- Old fashion love words spoken then
- Keep coming back around again
- Nothings changed except the names
- Their love burns just like mine
- Before my time
- Before my time
- And in the dim of yesterday
- I can clearly see
- That flesh and blood cried out to someone
- As it does in me
- And there was some old song that said
- I love you 'til I die
- Before my time
- Before my time
- But what the old time masters had
- Is what I feel for you
- Love is love and doesn't change
- In a century or two
- If someway they had seen and knew
- How it would be for me and you
- They'd wish for love like yours
- And they would wish for love like mine
- Before my time
- Before my time
- I got a crib full of corn, and a turnin' plow
- But the grounds to wet for the hopper now.
- Got a cultivator and a double tree
- A leather line for the hull and gee
- Let the thunder roll and the lighting flash
- I'm doing alright for Country Trash
- I'm saving up dimes for a rainy day
- I got about a dollar laid away
- The winds from the south and the fishings good
- Got a pot belly stove a quart of wood
- Mama turns the left-overs into hash I'm doing alright for
- Country Trash
- I got a machina and a hunting dog
- A cap I ordered from the catolog
- A good tall tree that shades the yard A good fat sow for the winters lard
- Let the thunder roll and the lighting flash
- I'm doing alright for
- Country Trash
- Well there's not much new ground left to plow
- And the crops need fertilizer now
- My hands don't earn me too much gold
- For security when I grow old
- But we'll all be equal under the grass
- And God's got a heaven for
- Country Trash And
- God's got a heaven for
- Country Trash
- I'll be doing alright for
- Country Trash
- Was on one cold winter's night
- And the wind blew across the wild moor
- Poor Mary came wand'ring with a child in her arms
- And she stopped at her own father's door.
- Oh, father, oh father, she cried
- Come down and open the door
- Or this child in my arms, will perish and die
- From the winds that blow across the wild moor.
- Oh why did I leave this fair spot
- Where once I was happy and free
- This wide world to roam, with no friends or no home
- And no one to have pity on me.
- But the father was deaf to her cry
- Not the sound of her voice, did he hear
- For the watch dogs did howl and the village bells tolled
- And the winds blew across the wild moor.
- Oh, how the old man must have felt
- When he opened the door, the next morn'
- And found Mary dead, but the child still alive
- Clasped close in it's dead mother's arms.
- In anguish, he pulled his gray hair
- And the tears, down his cheeks, they did pour
- When he saw how that night, they had perished and died
- From the winds that blow across the wild moor.
- The old man, his life, pined away
- And the child, to it's mother, went soon
- And no one they say, lives there to this day
- And the old house, to ruin, has gone.
- But the villagers point out the spot
- And the willows droop over the door
- Where poor mary died, once a sweet village bride
- From the winds that blow across the wild moor.
- Hold on honey I'd like to say
- I'm busting out and breaking away
- I'm letting you go like a hot horse shoe
- I can't take another heart ache from you
- Think about how it's gonna be
- When you start back to needing me
- When your dancing shoes have lost their shine
- I'm gonna be gone in mine
- I'm leaving now
- I'm leaving now
- Get out of my face
- Get out of my place
- I'm leaving now, adios
- I'm leaving now
- And the time it comes when you trim the fat
- Feed the kitchen scraps to the front seat cat
- Bye bye baby when the bills come due
- You might have to sell a jewel or two
- Eat your heart out anyway
- It's hard as your head and it's cold as clay
- It's all over now you won't have me
- Your sugar daddy or your money tree
- I'm leaving now yeah
- I'm leaving now
- Get out of my space
- Get out of my face
- I'm leaving now, hey hey
- I'm leaving now
- Pull up the collar on my traveling coat
- Sell that miserable pleasure boat
- I wouldn't give another nickel for another buck
- I'm living on muscle, guts, and luck
- If anybody asks where did I go
- Tell 'em I went where the wild goose goes
- I wouldn't have me an area code
- Don't have a number, don't need a row
- I'm leaving now, me to
- I'm leaving now
- Get out of my face
- Get out of my space
- I'm leaving now, adios
- I'm leaving now
- I'm leaving now
- I'm leaving now
- Get out of my space
- Get out of my face
- I'm leaving now, adios
- I'm leaving now
- I'm a poor wayfaring stranger
- While traveling thru this world of woe
- Yet there's no sickness, toil, or danger
- In that bright world to which I go
- I'm going there to see my Father
- I'm going there no more to roam
- I'm only going over Jordan
- I'm only going over home
- I know dark clouds will hang 'round me,
- I know my way is rough and steep
- Yet beauteous fields lie just before me
- Where God's redeemed their virgils keep
- I'm going there to see my mother
- She said she'd meet me when I come
- I'm only going over Jordan
- I'm only going over home
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