I was cast out of Eden and driven out east In my darkest hour turned to crime I was sentenced to jail where I was beaten and starved I was murdered time after time after time Treat a man like a dog and thats what hell become Hell grovel today but soon his time will come A man can be pushed, made to endure all pain But one day like a noose, hell reach his breaking strain In an act of defense or defiance or rage I savagely beat my cellmate So they shackled my legs and threw me in a gang To clear an old graveyard to lay down some track I felt like a beast running hurt, blind and bleeding Knowing somewhere a cliff is ahead The bossman would watch from the shade of a tree And drive me til I was near dead The boss licked his chops and said Get back to work Or Ill throw your bones down in the hole Like a pot boiling over and snuffing out its fire My soul burned as black as a coal Im no bossmans dog, my back wont stoop far My homes not in heaven, I dont run from war I say a man can be pushed but when theres nothing left at stake Sooner or later hell break My eyes filled with blood so I picked up a bone And I cleaved his fat head clean in two He fell into the dust as I spat on his face Brother, the same goes for you
hell, pushed, cleaved, snuffing, savagely