Lifetime and a Year Lyrics

I can hear the bloodhounds braying

With their noses on my trail

Their howling got me praying

Now here comes the rain and hail

I'm hiding in a berry bush

With stickers in my skin

There ain't no way

I'm getting caught again

Twelve years ago on trial

Just for walking by

the doorway of a store

Where a clerk'd been left to die

I shouted out my innocence

But the jury couldn't hear

The sentence I got

Was lifetime and a year

I sat twelve years forgotten

In a stone and metal cage

All that time just thinking

And building up my rage

But now I've got one

Single, lonesome, solitary drive

To be free

While getting out of here alive

Wind is blowing in a gale

There's hail like bowling balls

My life is in a barrel

Headed for Niagara Falls

Without looking behind me

I just make a break and run

Not listening for

The sound of any gun

Well if it matters to you

What becomes of me

As long as I can run

Is how long I will be free

Everybody's story

Is a cautionary tale

but that don't keep the bloodhounds

Off your trail