Shadows5 song lyric collection
All of the following songs have music written and recorded as well. I write a wide range of lyrics and songs from folk/alt country to metal. It just depends upon the voices in my head at the time the lyrics come out.
Wiilliam
He slept out on the streets
For better than 15 years
Hopelessly lost in a bottle
Trying to make the memories fade away
His face void of expression
His heart an empty shell
He had nothing else worth losing
He had only his story to tell
I met him outside a liquor store
He was to proud to beg for change
I went in and bought him a bottle
I wanted to know what made him this way
He said his name was William
And he hadn’t always been like this
He once had a wife and family
Nice house and a couple of kids
Did three tours of duty
Fighting in a foreign land
And no matter how hard he tried
He came back a changed man
Drowning himself in a bottle
Fighting a battle he could not win
Got in a bit of trouble
Ended up in the pen
His wife up and left him
Took the boys and was gone for good
Hadn’t seen them in 25 years
Didn’t know if he would if he could
I told him I had lost my father
When I was very young
My mother told me he lost his life
At the wrong end of a gun
Now William lives under the bridge
With an old dog he calls shoe
He just sits and drinks the days away
Since he has nothing better to do
I spent a lot of time with William that year
Sitting under that dirty old bridge
We shared some laughs
Told stories of our past
And shed a few hard tears
I offered William to come stay with me
Since I was living all alone
He just looked at me with a tear in his eye
And said no, this is where I belong
INSTRUMENTAL
Early one Sunday morning
I heard the news on my T.V.
They said they had found a vagrant
Deceased on 16th street
I ran all the way to the bridge
Hoping it wasn’t true
But lying right where William used to sit
Was only his old dog Shoe
I sat and buried my face in my hands
And cried like a little child
Shoe came over and laid his head in my lap
To comfort me for awhile
When I got up to leave
I told Shoe to come along
He could come live at my home
Since William now was gone
He began to bark and lead me
To a small opening in the rocks
I reached inside and in my hand
I felt an old metal box
From Shoes old dirty collar
Hung a rusty lock box key
He lowered his head, shook his collar around
And gave it to me
I opened the box and peered inside
At some letters and medals from the war
But underneath there was an old envelope
That held so much more
I removed an old tattered photograph
And held it in my hand
My knees nearly buckled
I could barely stand
I sat on the ground beside his old dog
And through tear filled eyes could see
The little boy sitting on Williams lap
That little boy was me
He said his name was William
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Shadows
Verse
I hear their Voices in the darkness
Their shadows follow me around the room
Dark Visions dance through my mind
As They call to me through the gloom
I Feel the cold as they enter my heart
Bringing their pain and regrets
The chill it rolls down my spine
As I break out in a cold sweat
The road to their perdition
Has taken a detour through my heart
They fill me with their attestations
While they're tearing my soul apart
Chorus
I'm not you! (But you're gonna be) <------sung by backup or on second vocal track
I'm not you! (But you're gonna be)
I'm not you! (But you're gonna be)
(slowly)
And now I begin to wander..........(drawn out)
Verse
They slowly filled me with their rage
As they trapped me deep within their cage
My heart that was once filled with desire
Has now been filled with Hells own fire
I will continue the tradition of their deeds and lore
Or my soul will be from it's core tore
In this pit my lot was cast
I will forever live within their past
Verse
I hear their Voices in the darkness
Their shadows follow me around the room
Dark Visions dance through my mind
As They speak to me through the gloom
My eyes have now been emptied
Of what little life they had left
My body has been atrophied
Yet I am filled with no regrets
The un-forgiven ones now have spoken
And chosen me as their pawn
They have planted their seed within my heart
In the hopes that it will spawn
Chorus 2
The Hate (that's within their souls)
The hate (which has taken it's toll)
The hate (it's removed me from my mind)
The Hater (that has carried on through time)
Guitar lead up to next section
Chorus
But Im' not you! ( you're gonna be)
I'm not you! (But you're gonna be)
I'm not you! (But you're gonna be)
Now I've begun to wander
Now I've begun to wander
Now I've begun to wander
end with guitar final
Road Trip
verse:
Leaving outta Louisiana
in a stolen Cadillac
Told my Ma and Pa
I aint never coming back
I shot that deputy sheriff
cause he was trying to take me in
I already gave'em ten years of my life
I ain't livin in a cell again
Papa said son I wish that you would
surely change your mind
I blew my mama a kiss
and left her on the front porch cryin
chorus:
Heading down into Texas
All the way to San Antone
If they catch me down in Texas
That will be where they lay my bones
verse:
I took off in that caddy
with a hundred dollars and my gun
somehow I always knew
I'd live life on the run
made it just north of Waco town
me and that caddy were runnin dry
pulled into that liquor store
with a sign said Texas sky
I shot that clerk behind the counter
put two bullets in his head
before he hit the floor
I knew that he was dead
really didn't want to kill that man
it just happened way to fast
I told him to hand it over
but he wouldn't give me the cash
he reached for that old shotgun
but I already had my 45
If he would have just give it up
he would still be alive
I grabbed up all the cash
a bottle of whiskey and a quart of gin
jumped in that cadillac
and was on the road again
chorus:
Heading down into Texas
All the way to San Antone
If they catch me down in Texas
That will be where they lay my bones
verse:
Just south of San Marcos
that whiskey was kickin in
my eyes was gettin heavy
and my head was startin to spin
pulled into a cheap motel
lookin for a place to rest my head
stumbled into that dingy room
and passed out on the bed
probably should have known
they would be trying to track me down
especially after what I did
up north of Waco town
chorus:
Heading down into Texas
All the way to San Antone
If they catch me down in Texas
That will be where they lay my bones
verse:
just around the break of day
that sheriff busted in my door
I shot him right between the eyes
and dropped him to the floor
his deputies rushed in behind him
and shot me full of lead
the skinny one pulled out his black jack
and smacked me in the head
four bullet holes a busted skull
and my arm shredded by their dog
they wheeled me into that courtroom
with my head still in a fog
judge wasn't showing no mercy
he only had one goal
send my coonass up to Huntsville
death without parole
chorus:
Heading down into Texas
All the way to San Antone
If they catch me down in Texas
That will be where they lay my bones
I will add more later......I have a bunch of them
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