Living Man Lyrics

Far across the blackened hilltops

And the fiery dessert land

Reaching back through ages

You were there with your beggin' pan

Always actin' innocent

But hide truth when you can

Later years you grew out

And you stretched from town to town

You put on fancy linens

And you built yourself a crown

But you take yourself everywhere

No matter where your kind is found

Oh no, I don't want your hand outs

Or your chains

I don't need no privilege

Or high falootin' ways

I do just what I want

Or what I can

Baby, I'm a livin' man

Well, the tricks just got bigger

And the prize was never real

Passing through the centuries

On the sharpened edge of steal

You started talkin' fiction

And peddlin' evil deals

When you hit the top of everything

With nothing left to win

The taste of victory bittered

And your life now reeked of sin

Your too high for the simple life

And your enemies are your kin

Oh no, I don't want your hand outs

Or your chains

I don't need no privilege

Or high falootin' ways

I do just what I want

Or what I can

Baby, I'm a livin' man

The walls are closin' in now

And you got no where to run

Redemption for you only found

In the barrel of a gun

You finally played your last ace

But the dealers already won

Late at night you try to sleep

With the nightmares in your head

Red eyes stingin' hours pass

And strangers in your bed

You wish you did it differently

But you're probably already dead

Oh no, I don't want your hand outs

Or your chains

I don't need no privilege

Or high falootin' ways

I do just what I want

Or what I can

Baby, I'm a livin' man

Oh no, I don't want your hand outs

Or your chains

I don't need no privilege

Or high falootin' ways

I do just what I want

Or what I can

Oo baby, I'm a livin' man