If You Only Knew Lyrics

I drag my weary legs

To the edge of town

Pass through the bone yard stones

And radio towers

You don't know what a desperate man can do

My poor mother

If you only knew

I haul my shadow down

Into the woods

And I head to the end of the line

By light of the moon

Now I've dug this hole so deep

That it's caving in on me

And it tears my insides out lying to you

You don't know what a desperate man can do

My dear lover

If you only knew

A lone dark silhouette

Comes from the east

And I head in from the west until we meet

Down at the crossroads where we met

My idle hands close around his neck

And I'm face to face with myself, on death row

I'll bury this man without a prayer or headstone

My sweetest daughter

You will never know

If you only knew