bad luck troubled road blues Lyrics

There's a knock on my window

Where the candles are burning

And the tables are turning on the edge of a knife

And the room it is now bare

Now sound falls upon me

And the words to say i'm sorry i haven't found yet

And the nights they are long

And the days are ever lonely

But i know the wind will guide me to someplace to where you are

With the weather against me

My feet start a-tremblin'

As i'm walking down this bad luck troubled road

I've been so many places

I've forgot a million faces

But there ain't no replacin' what i lost what was never mine

As i'm walking down the side streets

I see birds flyin' above me

And where they're a-flyin' is where I'm bound to go

I wish to my soul

That my sweet love would find me

She'd hold me in her thin arms once again

Though the road might be rocky

Ain't no one gonna stop me

As i'm walkin' down this bad luck troubled road

I see widows in the station

They sing while they pace and

They cover up their faces with scarves made out of stone

And the old man who works the quarry

Stands alone in the corner

He's tellin' me stories of some friends he used to know

While i'm perched like a clown

On an ivory tower

And i'm trying to remember

Something i don't know

And st. thomas strikes poses on beds of dead roses

That adorn the sides of my bad luck troubled road

So as snow falls around me i grow ever weary

But the worst it is behind me

And my time it isn't long

So with my arms forever open

My heart forever hopin'

I'll hold you sweet lady when the sun is not but ash

Cause without you my love

I've no home at all

And i'm cursed to walk this bad luck troubled road

(yee-hoo)