Ballad Of A Lonely Man — Mike Ness

Im young and Im strong

Ive got this God forsaken world by the balls!

Ive got a one-way ticket to freedom

Aint got no one now gonna take it from me

I was a soldier, age twenty-one

In a war Im not sure what I was fighting for

And yet I turned from a boy to a man there

Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen

Chorus

My whole life I could not arrange

My wicked ways I could never change

Dont try, dont try now to understand

For this is the ballad of a lonely man

Close to me is a photograph

Of a family left far, far behind

At once I had love it slipped away from

I searched a lifetime but could not find

In a hospital bed, Im violently ill

Just one more drink nurse I swear to god!

Ive got my st. anthony and my whiskey

Yes Im a veteran of three foreign wars!

Repeat chorus