Wanted Man

from Season of the Moon by Michael McGuire

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Well I tried to change the system but the system changed me, Now I’ve backed myself into a corner; somebody call the police, And I don’t think it’s funny though I know it must be a joke, I tried to tell ‘em they were bending it to far; just about the time it broke, If god has any mercy; if the saints have any pull, Deliver me thru this night choked with mystery; beneath a moon that's shining full.

I’m a wanted criminal and an unwanted man, I know the truth but I don’t understand, Why we have to live this way, Life always seems to be a day away.

I can usually resist temptation but temptation can't resist me, There were so many things I had to become that I could never be, The only thing I could ever get right was whatever was wrong, It’s the only music I could dance to but this singer needs a song, I would have died for love if I’d had any; now I kill out of spite, But I won't give up so easy on this; your in for a hell of a fight.

I’m a wanted criminal and an unwanted man, I know the truth but I don’t understand, Why we have to live this way, Life always seems to be a day away.

Now I’m just a vagabond under a star-crossed sky, I’m sure about what I’ve done but I’m not really sure why, But people always call you crazy if your not like them, And only a real sucker ever goes out on a limb, And I may be a fool; ah this I will admit, But he who cast the first stone is more than full of shit.

I’m a wanted criminal and an unwanted man, I know the truth but I don’t understand, Why we have to live this way, Life always seems to be a day away.

Sept. 88

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from Season of the Moon, released December 1, 1989

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