Ballad Of A Lonely Man

I'm young and I'm strong

I've got this God forsaken world by the balls!

I've got a one-way ticket to freedom

Ain't got no one now gonna take it from meI was a soldier, age twenty one

In a war I'm not sure what I was fighting for

And yet I turned from a boy to a man there

Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen[Chorus:]

My whole life I could not arrange

My wicked ways I could never change

Don't try, don't try now to understand

For this is the ballad of a lonely manClose to me is a photograph

Of a family left far, far behind

At once I had love it slipped away from

I searched a lifetime but could not find

Songwriters

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