Broken Road

Born again on a island of sale

He lived there six months too long

Only ten out of jail

He looked at me his eyes were haggard and pail

His skin was tarnished and torn just like a rusted old nail

Well some people pass through this world with no pain

But Johnny mingled in its company again and again

He said he wanted to see paradise and travel so far

All he'd seen of it was standing hind' those ugly prison bars

So many good people they come good people they come, from a broken road

So many good people they come good people they come, they come and they go

Johnny hailed from the city of thieves

He'd cut his teeth down backwards alley's since 1973

He said he'd had a troubled run that was easy to see

He traveled East to West didn't miss a single penitentiary

From the Bronx over to Queen's down in South Jersey

I-95 to West Virginia well they caught up in Cincinnati

Crossed the Mason Dixon border Kansas City, Oklahoma

The Devil on the shoulder of a good hearted man

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Woah'can you out-run the weight of the world, the weight of the world

when it's holding you down?

Woah can you out-last the pain of the fall, the pain of the fall

when you fall to the ground?

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So many good people they come good people they come, from a broken road

So many good people they come good people they come, they come and they go