if you want i'll sell you a life story
 about a man who's at loggerheads with his past all the time
 he's alive and living in purgatory
 all he's doing is rooming in hotels
 and scooping up lots of wine

 there was once a boy of life
 who lived upon a knife
 he took his share of everywhere
 but he never took a wife...

 he was born live like a mercenary
 well personally i think that's fine
 if you're in the right mind
 he was burned by the twentieth century
 now he's doing time
 in the back of his mind
 he can hear them outside

 [bad word]  [bad word]  [bad word] into the sun
 kick your heels in the killing fields
 [bad word] [bad word] 
 you're a son of a gun