I had a long long road ahead of me
If I could just outrun the past
Just another age-old lesson
I hadn't learned

I thought I'd see you here
Cause I could swear that this is hell
But maybe every demon
Doesn't get a turn

Maybe at the end
Who we are is not how we burn

I left you at your wake in Kansas City
I put them in the ground in New Orleans
If it takes a killer to guard against a killer
I should have been the man of your dreams
But I was too late
I was too late

I don't know why I kept looking
You were gone as gone could be
But in every mirror
I kept seeing your face

I can't forget you lying there
A few days since I'd lost you
And your mother sobbing through
Amazing Grace

Dead echoes winding through
Our empty place

I hit them hard and found them wanting
I hit the border going ninety miles an hour
For all this violence it should amount to something
If it ever really was within my power
I was too late
I was too late

And I pray to god
When I face the firing squad
They aim as well me

I was too late
And now I'm paying

When the time comes to read off my sins
And I've seen my final sunrise
They're not as good without you, anyway
Should I get a last request
I'd sing your name until I starved
But if we could share a cigarette, that'd be okay