Shadow of a Man

Although I'm in need of a happy fairy tale

I've spent my time too close to hell

Time to run time to hide

Some might want to commit suicide!

Desperation like poison wine

Once you've crossed that fine line

My little angel once looked so fine

But even the Devil can appear divine,

Like a crowd panicking in a burning room

There seems to be this sense of doom

A jet interceptor comes with a sonic boom

Inevitable destruction just seems to loom,

Oh my dear how you've changed

So hateful and a bit deranged

Oh the agony of being estranged

Like a poor dog suffering with mange,

How many of us wish we could turn back time?

Is it the effect of the tequila of the bitter lime?

Oh how fate can turn on a dime

Leaving this poet locked in this dreadful rhyme,

If there's a messiah lingering in the air

Why does the temptress always seem so fair?

She slices your artery without a care

Now you're kneeling in such despair,

Oh Lord of fate can't you see

This shadow of a man never free

Is that a noose on the limb of a tree?

We're all sinners to varying degrees!

I began paving the road of good intentions to hell

I often got up again when I fell

Then a strange thing when I heard the bell

It rang for thee no tale to tell.

Oh, Abigail you were a work of art

I'll never know if you were sincere from the start

Such people as us who play this part

Is it the passion that tears us apart?

I've come to my limit short on fuel

Damned because I didn't follow the golden rule

Used by women like a fool

What was once love now so cruel,

I'm a gunman who lost the duel

The thief has stolen my jewel

I was always the convenient tool

Now I need a miracle of renewal.