i walked in here off the dirty mile swaggered in with a prison style aching bones and dirty feet needing a bed and something to eat i played for you and i played it right i sang in tune and i danced all night i cooked at you as the only one i didn t know it could come undone i hit the road when i was fifteen when my mother died and my dad got mean i ve been locked up since twenty one i was my mother s only son forgotten most from early days but i remember what she used to say little boy you re my pride and joy the only good thing about old fitzroy x2 i feel the walls are falling down around it makes me loathe that town somehow i ve been drinking all the wrong things all night i ve been thinking about what i ve got to do to survive this life